Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2019 | Page 108

Fire of Waves
Good Hope School, Lam, Gigi - 16
Bon voyage! Bon voyage!
The City of Innovation cried
The troops did march
With heads raised high
“Behold! They’re nigh!”
With watercrafts of gold
With vessels of silk
Two thousand sailors
Three hundred ships
The passage raged ahead
To storm or fire the world shall see
With tales of old, the aborigines
Sang about the hearty men
Courteous Africa, who bade them goodbye
With ivory, spices and exotic wood
Rhinos and orynxes,
Nilganias and lions,
Zebras, ostriches and giraffes
Granted by the welcoming crowd
The Age of Discovery had begun!
From the Guadeloupe beaches to the Great Barrier Reef
To the Cape of Good Hope and the Sea of Atlas
Mighty, they maybe
Like the Titan who held the sky
They were nigh! They were nigh!
The first explorers in days and nights
Asia, Middle East and Africa cried
Bon voyage! Bon voyage!