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Megalithic Poetry

Submitted by Thorgrim on Monday, 07 February 2005  Page Views: 1697

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Why do we seek out the stones? Do we wander the wild places as amateur archaeologists or as romantics in love with the past? Do we go as Pagans seeking spiritual contact with whatever Gods we honour or do we go as artists and photographers? Do we go as poets because we are emotionally stirred by the bleak beauty of the stones and the long ago folk that moved and made them? Why are there so few poems about megaliths?



Littlestone raised the subject of megalithic poems and asked why there were so few. We know of some by Kipling and there is a wonderful poem by Alexander Thom called Ancient Monuments. This one is well worth seeking out as it carries much information about stones and their astronomical significance.

Do you know of any megalithic or prehistoric poems? Have you written any? With a view to the possible publication of an illustrated Megalithic Anthology - we invite you to nominate your favourite published poems and to send us your own compositions - here is one of mine about Stonehenge:



Are the Stones ever silent now?
Does the lark still climb and the kestrel stoop
While snails embrace in slimy love?
Is there yet a silent second when
No jet planes scream or lorries growl
Or tour guides tell it wrong again?

Are the Stones ever silent now?
Does the harebell ring and the stonechat chat
While bees drink deep from golden gorse?
Is there yet a precious moment when
No cam'ras click or turnstiles clack
Or ice cream melt in sticky hand?

Are the Stones ever silent now?
Does the solstice crowd and the Druids' chant
Not know respect and silent prayer?
Is there yet a switched off mobile 'phone?
Can people come on foot - alone
With no barbed wire or entrance fee?

Are the Stones ever silent now?
Does the solstice sun and the wand'rin moon
Not tell the Stones to wait a while?
Wait 'till the noisy parasites
Are dust on the wind that they make
And silence shall come to the Stones.



Peter Herring 1st February 2005



Note: Do you know of any megalithic or prehistoric poems? Have you written any?
Contributor Bio for Thorgrim: Contributing since 2003.

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