Randall
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U.A. Fanthorpe: Stanton Drew
Apr 12, 2005, 23:02
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Stanton Drew by U.A. Fanthorpe
First you dismantle the landscape.
Take away everything you first
Thought of. Trees must go,
Roads, of course, the church,
Houses, hedges, livestock, a wire
Fence. The river can stay,
But loses its stubby fringe
Of willows. What do you
See now? Grass, the circling
Mendip rim, with its notches
Fresh, like carving. A sky
Like ours, but empty along
Its lower levels. And earth
Stripped of its future, tilted
Into meaning by these stones,
Pitted and unemphatic. Re-create them.
They are the most permanent
Presences here, but cattle, weather
Archaeologists have rubbed against them.
Still in season they will
Hold the winter sun poised
Over Maes Knoll's white cheek,
Chain the moon's footsteps to
The pattern of their dance.
Stand inside the circle. Put
Your hand on stone. Listen
To the past's long pulse.
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Apr 12, 2005, 23:18
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Thank you, Randall.
We are all a little stripped of our future and tilted into meaning by these stones.
A new and lovely addition to the growing stack.
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Littlestone
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Edited Dec 05, 2007, 07:56
The Circle
Apr 19, 2005, 21:19
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The Circle
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:50
Chased-by-Bears
Apr 25, 2005, 23:42
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"The outline of the stone is round, having no end and no beginning; like the power of the stone it is endless. The stone is perfect of its kind and is the work of nature... Outwardly it is not beautiful, but its structure is solid, like a solid house in which one may safely dwell."
Chased-by-Bears (1843-1915)
Santee-Yanktonai Sioux
(And thanks to PH for sending me this)
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:50
John Ogilvie: Fane of the Druids
Apr 30, 2005, 09:42
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One for Beltane (thanks to JC for this as it appears on page 389 of TMA).
Fane of the Druids: a poem
Time-hallow'd pile by simple builders rear'd!
Mysterious round, through distant times rever'd!
Ordained with earth's revolving orb to last!
Thou bringst to sight the present and the past.
Rapt with her theme, bold Fancy wings her flight
To silent ages long involved in night
Bids clouded forms arise to sight display'd
And scatters light along th' oblivious shade.
John Ogilvie (1733-1813)
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nigelswift
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Apr 30, 2005, 10:25
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Peachy.
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:51
Rev. James Creichton
May 10, 2005, 17:50
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…But what here most attracts a stranger's view
Near the old castle is that spreading yew,
Whose horizontal branches, closely laid,
To British senates might afford a shade,
Yes, calmly here a senate might debate
And cooly settle the affair of state.
Or here the druids who in days of yore
Taught under trees their worship and their lore,
Might from the wintry blast - here found a screen,
And formed a temple all of evergreen.
Rev. James Creichton. Late 18th Century
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Wiggy
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Re: Megalithic Poems
May 10, 2005, 18:45
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There was a fabulous exhibition at the Tate a couple of years back - and Jah Wobble presented a pretty good documentary on the telly around the same time.
I love Blake.
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
May 10, 2005, 19:09
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There are three illustrations by Blake in <b>Stukeley Illustrated</b> by Neil Mortimer* showing the influence William Stukeley and John Aubrey had on Blake in his illustrations for <b>Milton</b> and <b>Jerusalem</b>.
* ISBN 0-9542963-3-8. pp126-129.
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Wiggy
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Re: Megalithic Poems
May 11, 2005, 12:23
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...Kipling's "In the Neolithic" is an interesting poem (in that it illustrates attitudes of the time towards ancient history etc) but I can't seem to find it right now, and would probably be too lazy to type it all out!!
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