Circles of Stone poem by Dyfed Lloyd Evans
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Circles of Stone
Stone pillars stand as sentry-guards
Against the ravages of time
Rings to hold the ancestors in place
Set against the dying winter sun
Their accusatory gaze
Demand libation
To quench their metamorphic thirst
A splash of red sanguinity
A victim's gift to birth the past
Aeons of stone, their weight
That crush the unbelieving ones
In timeless temple raised to measure time
Marking procession steps
As the heavens move
A work of man
Belies the frai-al-ties of flesh —
Hailing eternity
Within the weathering
Of its own decay
Against the ravages of time
Rings to hold the ancestors in place
Set against the dying winter sun
Their accusatory gaze
Demand libation
To quench their metamorphic thirst
A splash of red sanguinity
A victim's gift to birth the past
Aeons of stone, their weight
That crush the unbelieving ones
In timeless temple raised to measure time
Marking procession steps
As the heavens move
A work of man
Belies the frai-al-ties of flesh —
Hailing eternity
Within the weathering
Of its own decay
Avebury has to rank amongst the most amazing places in the world. The antiquity of those stones, compared with that of the civilizaton that produced them and the relative youth of your own society is truly humbling and places who and what we are in its true prespective.
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