Thursday, December 21, 2017

Three Flowers Comments

Rating: 0.0

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

Emmanuel George Cefai
COMMENTS
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.

3 0 Reply
Emmanuel George Cefai

Emmanuel George Cefai

Victoria, Gozo
Close
Error Success