Cerrig-Brudyn/The Astronomers Circle

A distant dampness wrings the air.
A weight most profound presses chest
as indrawn breath holds silent;
in the stonehedge of overwhelming gloom.
So, the mighty have fallen 
auguries of a mortal doom.

Without missive,
bluestone bones, stanchions silhouette 
onto a plane of pastel sky.
Gargantuan, they rise, a tomb.
So, the mighty have fallen
auguries of a mortal doom.

Brittle brown blood expunged
by millennium three,
the still, symbolic, oak forest rises.
Frozen sarsens, five, forming an open grove.
Megaliths beaconing a golden eastern dawn 

So, the multitude will rise within the circle
without earthly substance, soul; 
through green grasslands loam 
ashen augury of a different tome.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009


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Date: 4/13/2009 7:44:00 AM
Your appreciation for lives past and symbols thereof runs deep. Your poetry is almost always a masterpiece. Amazing write. Love, Shar
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Date: 4/13/2009 7:34:00 AM
power behind your words--I love it!!! 10/10 my friend
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Date: 4/13/2009 4:19:00 AM
so beautiful, really fun to escape and immerse in your poetry, Deborah, what a joy you are! Jim
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Date: 4/12/2009 4:57:00 PM
Druid rites at Stonehedge/ The poem is about Stonehedge in Wiltshire, England, thought to be a sacred site for the Druid's who are said to pray in oak groves. Their "home" in England was said to be on the Isle of Anglesey; then known as Mona. http://www.archive.org/stream/researchesintoec01thacuoft/researchesintoec01thacuoft_djvu.txt
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