New Grange

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Rex Tyler

I love animals. I enjoy writing poetry and delivering speeches.I like to mentor people who need help in preparing speeches and evaluations.I enjoy travel although it is much harder for me these days.I so enjoyed the Andes Mountains and Volcanoes and the Quichua people who live and thrive there.I have lots of friends around the world.
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