Beeston Castle Poetry

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Beeston Castle Poetry
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The Sentry

• Jagged rock lies beaten
• A stone sentinel set in an age
• When sentry guarded the fortress from violent
  siege
• All war-hoop and warrior cries,
• And now, beneath the sun-baked soil, lies.

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The Dark Ages

• Dark stones against the blue sky.
• Dark ages against eternity.
• Dark secrets buried in the walls.
• Dark times gave way to our life of ease.
• Do we appreciate it?

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The Draw-Bridge

• The cry went up
• From the sentry aloft,
• Army comes from a-west
• The men seized arms
• Whilst women ushered frightened children up to
  the keep, now their home, a wind swept fortress.
• The draw-bridge closed the armoured curtain,
  cut-off the world, and ensured life for a month
  at least.

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Do you hear it?

• Do you hear it?
• The cry from long go
• Embalmed in rock and stone.
• A fossil of sound, a shout to a world intent on
  war and death and killing.
• A cry of life to those who hear it.