Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2019 | Page 126

Another billow curl engulfs the bow
Another captain stands staunch at the helm
As Leigong with his peal the oceans quake
And Dianmu with her flare the vessels whelm
In scurried shift he dries his lush apace
And through the tumult reels athwart the beam
Against the gale conns he the froward keel
To douse another pungent pipèd dream
But lo!
See the morn dawning on the wayward tides!
See the aureate spume aloft the waves!
Where Golden Crows in Morus trees ensconce
Or Phosphorus bestirs the Rainbow Fawn
He sees the treasures Mazu sends their way
As o’er the brine still Feilian lithely sways
Delivers he the hoisted masts astride
And steers her t’wards th’auspicious morningtide