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Emmanuel George Cefai

Victoria, Gozo

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Victoria, Gozo

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Three flowers spoke gaily
And
Looked not at the snake
Approaching.

‘You will have
Plenty on your hands.
But let us dance
Meanwhile the wind's at our backs'
One flower spoke

Spoke the snake:
‘Now you are gathered all
And all is one swoop'
And
In one swoop he mowed them

Emmanuel George Cefai

Thursday, December 21, 2017

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Daniel Brick 01 January 2018

The snake in this poem is not the snake of the ECOLOGY of earth; it is a symbolic of our fears - of the unknown, of the malign which seeks to destroy us out of malice. The flowers are victims because they don't realize the venom of those who hate for hates's sake. These symbolic snakes represent what is alien to an ecological process and most certainly alien to a moral view of life.

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