Time Is A Master Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

1-Time is a Master
Silent he walks the clouds
And the mass universe when
He higher his ways goes and
Wends.
2-Brief was the singing of the
Bird.
Brief was the stunning of the
Song
Brief was the silver snow of
Stars
Brief was the snow capping of
The mounts
Brief was the twilight of the
Waters
O Earth
O Mother Earth
3-On wing fly that sole and
Rare night
On wing flew figures immense
With bat-like wings
Whose shadow outspread
A whole town of Earth full
Encompassed
Yet they flew high and rare
And raw
Thoughts were roaming
Thoughts were roaming
3-From the beginning
The day stood drear
And in the waters
Of a stagnant lake
Reflected itself a horrid
Face of beauty in
The ugly.
4-points.
Verses.
Yet
They together formed
Archives of emotion and
Of woes and joys
Ascending
Descending graph-like.
The very thoughts are raw
The very thoughts are mild
5-however much you joy
Today
There will come a night
Unlike the previous nights
That night will be the
Worst
That night will be most
Black
That night will be one
Night
Once come
6-a sylph to hum
And
In her humming
Born
A song
A song of weather hoar
A song of desert streets
A song of desert nights
A song when fell rare
Snow
Verses short and cold
Whose breath stains frozen
Panes
O Earth
O Mother Earth!
7-the walking of despair
Through the streets of old
Valletta
It blows
The night-wind blows
The core of yellow
Leaves
It grows, it grows, it grows
And romantic lamps
Glow
And clank their iron old