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# Easter Island
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/easter-island/
- Published: 2022-10-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: As pent up passions knot the very air and waters churn, a maelstrom in the void, the shore gives way.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

As pent up passions knot the very air  
and waters churn, a maelstrom in the void,  
the shore gives way.

Unanswered, goes the prayer  
and statues, stern, that men stood up, devoid  
of any power to arrest or stop the ocean,  
resolute though they may be, are soon submerged.  
They failed to either sop or much less halt the advent of the sea.

What's left then, to the sculptors of the stone?  
More statues, bigger ones, or better gods?  
The old ones are still clinging to their throne.  
Who'll win, the sculptors or the gods? What odds  
would you assign here?

Come, and place a bet, but do not call it.

Please.

At least not yet.