Silver Beast

• Kiara Dalgety, Grade 12, Kenmore State High School
• Poetry
• 2006

3rd in the 'Writers Wanted 2006' competition

Soft intaglio glinting like a frosty morn;
Armed with stalactite-silver white the single born,
Mirror'd in a forest mere, strangely fleeting, ever wild,
Seen by night when skies are clear, never near, fancy's child.
Legend that the minstrels spun, sorrow never touched your kind-
Free as air elusive one. Lightly run-outrace the wind.
Strange and rare, to mankind lost; fairer than the moon above;
Diamonds from your mane are toss'd. Beast of frost yet, warm as love-unicorn.