Tender Evening

(in Huangshan)

by T.P. Wilkinson / August 21st, 2022

Wishes wait for prayers (Photo:  Faye Sarras)

Threads life binding,
from feeling fibers woven,
wings and wishes wait for prayer,
morning dew borne by night air.
Journeys too with questions fraught
distances no need to measure
Fate between fingers still holding
as evening dreams begin unfolding.

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, August 21st, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.