Poem: The Old Winchester Hill

 by Oscar M





Mud lines their dirt tracks.

Obscurity of Summer snow.

Pismires underfoot.


Transfix on explosion

Debris that are arranged

As dancers on a stage.

Traipse along the

Palisade-lining.

Finger guides eyes

To feel the gentle battle scars

And recount their origins.


Sheep linger in

The valley below.


Turns to face the wind

And calls out to Gods.

Their response

Vacuously impassive.


And just like that,

Swimming in the sky:

Three kestrels.


Below, there are thinkers

And dreamers and believers,

Storytellers and poets

And playwrights. But here,

We are condemned to

A misery of observance.


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