SRI LANKA - POETRY [ BY THE LATE SAM WAIDYASEKERA ]

A Silken Morn

It's a soft silky day

Waves are silken gay,

And greet us shimmery white

As does the diffused light

By benign clouds

Spread among the covered wide.

The sands are getting softer

With friendly purling streams

Of constant intersperse

Sandy crabs jerk and nibble

With lighthouse eyes

And varying size.

I am on the hull

Of a sailing craft

Wood and blade and rope and bamboo,

The wind whips past

The penson mast

Welcoming the after ocean blast.

And I'm light as a lark

And quote as well

Aglow with the ocean spark

And coves and slouching arms

Nestling among thy charms

and hum lully psalms.

Source :' Cameos ' by the late Sam Waidyasekera