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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Sep 18, 2008, 08:44
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gjrk wrote: I passed here often when young, tired and bored after another long day at the strand and never looked past the gate, or did and saw only cattle rubbing against a post. It would be thirty years before I knew of the cobwebs spun in the morning dew. Very nice Mr g. You probably have a particular stone in mind but when I read your poem I couldn't help thinking of the London Stone. There are some really excellent posts on the London Stone here - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/635/london_stone.html And this one, in the context of Meg Poems, which was posted by fitzcoraldo on TMA more than four years ago - gjrk wrote: A short excerpt from William Blake's Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion.
"They groan'd aloud on London Stone They groan'd aloud on Tyburn's Brook Albion gave his deadly groan, And all the Atlantic mountains shook." The accompanying notes say the following; "The ancient stone in the east central part of London and the site of public execution in the western part form a London Stonehenge, a place of druidical sacrifice where Albion is tortured."
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gjrk 370 posts |
Edited Apr 08, 2009, 02:17
Sep 18, 2008, 12:14
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Thank you LS. It's about a site that I’ve often written about before, so I didn't mention the name - people might notice that I’m stalking it! It’s on a height half-way between the coast at Rosscarbery and the plain that now contains Dunmanway (Fort of the Middle Plain/ Dún Meán Mhaigh… sorry about the Irish spelling, could be wrong on the third word), off a road that I travelled frequently, as a child, on the way back from the beach. Of course, I never noticed it or probably wouldn’t have known what it was if I did. I meant it to be fairly universal - what you look at and don't see or what you don't look at at all and what it originally was, how important it was to whoever put it there, how beautiful it would have been (if that's not too dramatic) and how your own perspective on it may change. It was useful to be able to contrast my original experience of it in the evening - its evening as well, as it were - with the way it would look in the dewy morning (and its morning). Then the fact that I had to age to see it - an opposing movement. The cobwebs are both beautiful and binding. I don't know if that explains it very well.
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Sep 23, 2008, 12:48
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All sunlit was the earth I trod, The heavens were frankest blue; But secret as the thoughts of God The stones of Stanton Drew. Sir William Watson (1858-1935) First posted by baza here - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8035/weddings_at_stanton_drew.html#images
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Edited Sep 24, 2008, 21:40
Sep 24, 2008, 21:14
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“Because of them we are buried. Not spiteful, no. For the rise of this hill ensures that our souls will live forever in the light of the stars.” Watch the young boy rise from the fields surrounding He is almost a silhouette in the cornflower sky Feel his heart pounding along the path to the barrow His courage barely clings to his heels See him pressing his bare chest up against the cold stone He looks like he is trying to lift it Listen to the voices of the dead whispering their prophecies to him He knows the secrets locked inside their bleached bones Hear the village singing as the young boy returns to them a man He is ready now to lead them into a new world © Copyright Persephone Vandegrift 2008
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nigelswift 8112 posts |
Sep 25, 2008, 09:29
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http://complit.la.psu.edu/faculty/lima/!menhir.htm
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Edited Sep 25, 2008, 20:07
Sep 25, 2008, 19:27
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Love me, will you, drape your arms around my chest. Keep me warm while I sleep, dreaming of my children to the West. Do not carve me out with a desperate hand or avaricious eye. But if you must, keep your voices down so I can hear that their hearts are still beating. © Copyright Persephone Vandegrift 2008 See also the North Stoke entry on East Kennet Long Barrow here - http://www.northstoke.blogspot.com/
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Sep 26, 2008, 08:08
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Written Within View of Castlerigg Stone Circle I cannot believe That in this fateful hour The infinite beauty that shall caress mine eyes Behold! I cannot believe, that the Glorious fanfare of strange Stark contrasts that my gaze Is upon, so lifts me that I become overwhelmed by passions That I have never known. I cannot believe that The form of beauty That the scene foretells Can (alone) create such an impression Upon my mind That primeval memories stir From depths uncharted territory. So I am fired up by the glory of The Holy Spirit In Her pantheistic ways Upon these eternal hills of mine. I cannot believe that Such variety of colour And texture can engulf the Ageless pattern strewn formations Of fell side and mystic ring And I cannot believe that Deity Has not a hand in all of this and more For surely all life's creation Emanates from She who is Sacred Earth's Goddess Divine. Alex Langstone See also Alex's Spirit of Albion website here - http://www.alexlangstone.blogspot.com/
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Edited Oct 01, 2008, 20:50
Oct 01, 2008, 11:20
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Lovely photo to accompany Alex's poem here if anyone's interested -http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
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nigelswift 8112 posts |
Oct 02, 2008, 12:40
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Stones is a song about Stonehenge (I think), composed by David "Iolo" Watson for ORIGIN, inc.'s Ultima computergame series. His wife Kathleen "Gwenno" Jones wrote the lyrics. Scroll down here http://www.joxter.net There's also a rather nice audio version here http://www.joxter.net/stones/bradvenable.mp3
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Oct 02, 2008, 14:50
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nigelswift wrote: Stones is a song about Stonehenge (I think), composed by David "Iolo" Watson for ORIGIN, inc.'s Ultima computergame series. His wife Kathleen "Gwenno" Jones wrote the lyrics. Scroll down here http://www.joxter.net There's also a rather nice audio version here http://www.joxter.net/stones/bradvenable.mp3 Thanks Nigel - can't get that link to work though. Will try'n suss it out later.
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