For
Karen...
The
Unicorn Mare
A unicorn stallion emerged from his forest,
and lifted his proud head to the sky.
On the cold morning wind, many miles away,
he beheld the scent, of a unicorn mare.
He wandered for long miles down weary trails,
many sunsets and moon rises he saw.
Till he reached a distant land of forest and rain,
where he heard the call, of the unicorn mare.
He spent his days following her faint trails,
but it was another scent that stopped him cold !
For it was a tigress in those woods he saw,
and not the prize he sought, the unicorn mare.
He arched his neck and cried loud in fear,
tensed and quite unsure whether to flee or fight.
When the tigress spoke to him purring loudly,
that she would lead him, to his unicorn mare.
With the tigress he ran, her realm she described,
many strange animals, insects and plants he saw.
He warmed to her soft sweet scent and charms,
and fast forgot all his fears, and the unicorn mare.
They came to a darkened cave high in the hills,
when tigress stopped and him began to stalk !
Her large bright eyes froze him fast in his tracks,
for his folly he'd now never see, his unicorn mare.
The tigress growled and sprung to take him down,
a long flash of fire and tan with outstretched claws.
But as she flew towards him her form did change,
as what landed beside him, was a unicorn mare !
They ran to where the misty sky met the trees,
she told him of the old curse of a betrayed love.
That made her form feared so to defend her soul
till true love turned her back, to a unicorn mare.
They nuzzled each other in the soft moonlight,
and pledged forever to love play and roam as one
In that quiet land of mountain, rain and forest.
The unicorn stallion, with his unicorn mare.
©
G.A.Rigby, 1999
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