Where Red Kite Fly

Walking ancient pathways on high chalk ridges, Climbing steep sided valleys; sheep cropped slopes Over rolling hills where the Red Kite fly And Chalk Blue butterfly flit in sun warmed air. Settlement names derived from Saxon tongue, Time matured villages where the Saxon lived. Treading shaded lanes in woods of Beech and Oak Muntjac Deer peer from the shadowed forest’s edge. Clear rivers eddy under old stone bridges, Kingfisher dressed in blue and orange cloak By brooks where white Water Crowfoot flower The Brown Trout swim and clear chalk streams flow. Barry Stebbings 31/12/16