Arthur, After one or two readings the poem has
really'dawned' on me. I think, perhaps, I am one who
needs the bit about the rebirth passage because the
history I am into starts somewhere later than this. I
wonder about your use of the word'sided' which seems
to me to be more colloquial than the rest of the
language which is rather elegant timeless,
(classless?) stuff. many thanks, cara
--- Arthur <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
> Dec 21 st is the Winter Solstice, the sun returns
> to our skies.
>
> Upon the Pennines moorlands are many barrows ,
> earthen tombs. The narrow " entrance" is now
> recognised as the exit through which the buried
> person re-emerges at his/her rebirth after a given
> time in the other world, the narrowness representing
> the narrow birth passage.
>
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> Secret of the uncut dolmen.
>
> The millstone mosses
> and grows grey, locking secrets
> in a sodden barrow,
> deep in womb of Earth,
> yet, as sky wheels and sea throbs,
> earth silently turns again
> under a winter moon,
> reed divides the wind beside the shining mere
> and sided sleet re-shapes the moor,
> I, child-of-mud, scrabble
> at the narrow portal
> to be born again.
>
>
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