Readers' Poetry

By Wiltshire Magazine on June 8th 2010

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• Comment by: SiegfriedBaber 02 August 2010 - 20:13

  Silbury Hill Revisited:
  
  Look at you.
  
  A great dome of pre-history
  Under jet streams and tattered sky,
  The blue ribbons carnivalling
  Above your head.
  
  What are you?
  An ancient monument
  Of deer-hunts, flint spears,
  A cousin to strange stones of Gods:
  Teeth of the Earth’s mouth.
  
  Perhaps a watching post,
  A solitary hill eyeing
  Plains and valleys and fields
  Rolling into thunder heated air;
  Cloud burst touching tower.
  
  All that under your mud slapped
  Skull of history. Once
  Crowned by the eternity between
  Earth and sky – then
  Humbled into poverty, every stabbing wind a revolution.
  
  Your powder-packed bones of chalk
  Crumbled into dust of decay.
  Their strength is no longer needed,
  Shattered by the weight of
  Time passing you by – unmoved by your Neanderthal bulk.
  
  Look at you,
  A slave to your own grandeur,
  A pale blur in a child’s eye.

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