The Dragon and the Unicorn

(from all kings and despots freed)

by T.P. Wilkinson / July 22nd, 2018

Fire does not burn
when above the heat
meeting tongues
in passion meet.
The lion in its sleep subsides,
where artifice in works abides
That distant lands
together bound
with loving hands
across oceans found
such life with sharéd intimacy
strife long repelled, since infancy
So fears heraldic must decline
Bless’d spirits kindrid,
no more irate,
all things divine
do cultivate.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.