UKC

St George


Heraldic-taut white-shining-armour knight
over a honey-stone font.

Mailed foot pressing down on the neck of the vanquished beast,
a leaning twist on the righteous skewering spear:
one shafting thrust ends the triumphing hero’s hunt.

Thus is the slick gross leathery-wingèd dragon
slain, excised,
stamped out and erased
by our purified Christian Perseus
freed from sin.

So what is it Andromeda’s temporary saviour misses?
How is it that green-poison eye
And ice-chill heart and fire-lust rage
live on within?


(c) TDJCC
St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
April 23 2014

In reply to Tim Chappell:

english poetry is poo, give me an old welsh one any day

In reply to Tim Chappell:

Brilliant !

In reply to ow arm:

You're right, Greek poetry is better. But I don't have the skill-set to write that, unfortunately; only to translate it

In reply to Tim Chappell:

I would say that killing a dragon is SIN and not very so called christian like.

In reply to The Pylon King:

You've not met my Mother in Law then?

In reply to The Pylon King:

Killing an endagered species!!!

In reply to Tim Chappell:
Did Roman soldiers get knighted??? or wear shining armour???

Very good none the less.

In reply to Tim Chappell:

So Jebus is a Homeric Hero and Original Sin is really just the fears and phobias of the common man that tie him to his fate?

BTW It was Zeus who fought the dragon headed Typhon, Cetus lived in the sea, not a common home for dragons.

In reply to Tim Chappell:
what the hell was that All about?

Methinks youre Just writing tosh to see who Takes you Seriously?

Your copyright Assertion is needless, it wont be widely Copied for Commercial Purposes



Ps on Dragons side here. St George, nothing but an animal murderer

In reply to Tim Chappell:

Proper poems rhyme.

(And anyway, I feel sorry for the dragon).

In reply to broken spectre:


Quite. Dragons eat maidens and damsels and breathe fire and so on. That's their nature. No reason to kill them.

In reply to MG:

St George wasnt even a made guy, he was a shnook. St Francis of the Assisi family should have had the Lousy bum whacked for that days work.

In reply to Tim Chappell:

UKIP will have a feild day for all the fuss over a Turkish immigrant.

In reply to Tim Chappell:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/england-on-fire-as-dragons-take-...

In reply to MG:



This one rhymes. Read it again.

"Proper poems rhyme..." Oh well, there goes the Iliad then. And the Odyssey, and the Aeneid, and Paradise Lost, and most of Shakespeare.