Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Sep 06, 2006, 19:45
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It's coming up to full moon (and a low one) maybe that's why people are squabbling again :-) Take a look at Cairns, and the beautiful pic to accompany it by CianMcLiam at -
http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
Then take the hand of your loved one, go out and breathe in the magic of it all - neither you nor it will be there forever :-)
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:25
Silverfox: Brightest Lady
Sep 07, 2006, 21:17
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She just came sailing by
brightest lady of the southern sky.
I can't help thinking it's all too orderly
all too
engineered.
A bright light for an otherwise darkened
sky
and almost the same size as the sun from here.
So much so that she does
eclipse it
almost perfectly
now and then.
And in a celestial game of hide and seek
she moves amongst our ancient stones
so cleverly positioned to capture her trajectory.
There is a lovely
mysterious symmetry here
that neither diminishes nor relinquishes
her claim to wonder.
And in the end
when soul seeks solace
and a newer place to dwell
I will remember that lady bright and full.
As a light to guide me home again
cloud whispered and sailing
to that place
of silvered silence.
Silverfox
(Stop whatever you're doing, go outside and look at the moon :-)
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moss
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Re: Brightest Lady
Sep 08, 2006, 18:00
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This has nothing to do with poetry its the Underhill collection;-
http://web.arch.ox.ac.uk/archives/underhill/viewarchive.php?albumID=1
Sketches of Stonehenge/Avebury/Rollright/Stanton Drew
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whatisthat
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Sep 08, 2006, 19:17
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I like visiting Megalithic Poems. It's like sitting by a stream on a sunny day. Thank you stone of small proportions ;-).
I subscribe to the RSS feed so I can easily keep up to date using my fabbo blog reader.
http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/rss.xml
http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/atom.xm
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whatisthat
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Sep 08, 2006, 19:18
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http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/atom.xml
even...
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Littlestone
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The Underhill Collection
Sep 08, 2006, 20:10
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Thanks moss - haven't had time to read all of it yet but the pics look great.
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Sep 08, 2006, 20:12
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I like visiting Megalithic Poems. It's like sitting by a stream on a sunny day.
Thanks wit ;-) Very kind of you to say so. Thanks should really go, though, to the people who paint and write about these magical megalithic places.
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nigelswift
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Cairns by Stan Beckensall
Sep 18, 2006, 19:10
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Must've missed this one.
It's nice.
By Stan Beckensall no less!
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FourWinds
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:22
Michael George Crawford
Sep 18, 2006, 19:35
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Have you got this one:
By the cromleach sloping downwards,
Where the druid's victim bled;
By the raised stone pointing upwards,
Heitolyphics none have read.
In their mystic symbols seeking
Of past creeds and rites o'erthrown,
If the truths they shrined are speaking
Yet, in litanies of stone
I think this is a bit more of it:
Oh! Shrine him 'neath the cromleach
Armed and ready for the foe,
As an emblem that not death
His defiance can lay low.
It has something to do with "The Flagstone of MacKinley". A bit of folklore from the Carlinford Lough area.
Found in Legendary Stories - The Carlingford Lough District by Michael George Crawford (1913)
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Littlestone
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Re: Cairns by Stan Beckensall
Sep 19, 2006, 07:30
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Yup, it's a good one.
Somewhere there's a note of who first posted it here but the name's been lost for a while. Thanks to that person though.
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