a massive feat
of workmanship
farmers and Astronomers
used their mighty muscles
to carve out an astonishing tomb
5200 years ago
270 foot diameter
a structure so much older
than the great Egyptian pyramids
43 feet high it is
a 62,foot passage
into three dark alcoves
imagine this and try
only their mean intelligence
their muscle and their breath
a collective work of many weeks
wherein those steeped with death
would lie for an eternity
and the River Boyne
from Carberry to the Irish Sea
count kildare to coin
a phrase this beautiful valley
in Neolithic times
8 miles from Drogheda
this massive stone tomb climbs
upwards to the cloud cover
A 97 stone kerb
seldom were their rhymes
written down to acknowledge
the brilliance of the build
the entity apparent
clearly a massive yield
still standing at this very time
a homage to their dead
a monolith of miracles
which to this day had led
thousands to the wondrous site
the integrity is there
that it has stood the test of time
surely is very clear
the finest ingenuity
a fulfilment one can say
harmonious and symmetrical
ancestors had a way
pathfinders and explorers
specialists in every field
adaptable and conforming
their hammers and picks did wield.
before Christ by some 3000 years
they maintained their arduous task
that bedrock of solidity
Which was all that we could ask.