SAID the Lion to the Lioness-'When you are amber dust,-
No more a raging fire like the heat of the Sun
(No liking but all lust)-
Remember still the flowering of the amber blood and bone,
The rippling of bright muscles like a sea,
Remember the rose-prickles of bright paws
Though the fire of that sun the heart and the moon-cold bone are one.'
Said the Skeleton lying upon the sands of Time-
'The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the Sun
Is greater than all gold, more powerful
Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes
Like all that grows or leaps...so is the heart
More powerful than all dust. Once I was Hercules
Or Samson, strong as the pillars of the seas:
But the flames of the heart consumed me, and the mind
Is but a foolish wind.'
Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,
And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood,
Remember only this of our hopeless love
That never till Time is done
Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.'
Notes
Within Heart and Mind, one can sense Sitwell's passion for life and
its powerful realities.
With such bold phrases as,
The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the Sun
Is greater than all gold, more powerful
Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes
Sitwell possesses an understood reverence for the worldly forces of nature,
and her poetry is filled with her own interpretations of experience. The
ideas of Time, Consciousness, and Love are constant throughout her poems.
The reader can conclude that Sitwell has reached an epiphany on her personal
view of life. The basic theme of Heart and Mind is the overall hopelessness
of a situation involving lovers that will never bond completely and will
always remain separate because of the way people tend to separate or become
more foolish as time progresses.
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