Tag: ringfort
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Ringfort, inner wall
A place in stasis, where time is stalled Ancient mazes, and trunk-thick walls Even the drunkest thick applauds Offering plaudits to ancestors, whose ancient Gods Were of field and forest, bring hods to the old bog Bring the nippleless king, seeking the sog; all this and more I saw At the Hillfort in Rathgall The…
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Visiting a dolmen
Day is muggy, has us both sulky Pasty Irishers not made for sun Kissing your poisoned lips at the megalith Enormous light-eclipsing capstone Sits strangely angled, how was it lifted into place in ancient day I imagine cow-tramped trails, movable log ramps along which longstones travelled Burnt offerings and the bones of chieftains interned within…
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