They Search For Me Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

They searched for me.
They went to the
Temple of the Muse
And found me not.

Then
Then
They went to the sea-shore
Where Dawn had just arisen
They asked Dawn
‘Come where be the Poet Seer? ’

Dawn smiled.

A little away from her
On the beach
Stood Venus bathing…

They asked her too

A sweet smile
As Dawn she smiled
Yet told us
‘He passed by towards yon
Woods as he saluted me.’

Then
They found him in the woods
Face up
Whistling and thinking.