at the stones

 

 

timeless gaps

and ancient pathways

shadowed prayers

and festal songs

chanting ghosts

call sunray guests

morning delivers

its mutant light

virgin dawn

treads the day softly

a sacrifice

in the making

Megalith

 

photo: Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England.  Aug 2011 

Stonehenge

pic: Stonehenge August 2011

Cathedral, calendar, map

these monoliths hide their secrets -

Chinese whispers in history.

Sculpted rock, daily proclaiming a quest:

a desire to move from unknowing,

a search outside for something within.

The genetic drive to celebrate

pushed, pulled, sweated and cried

these giants into place.

Lost now,

like eroded letters on a gravestone,

time has stolen their meaning.

Now we search for their search,

new savages, dissecting and analysing

not for our celebration

but for theirs.