Saturday, 12 April 2025

Semiosis

 




One might suggest

your efforts were in vain

to drag ten tonnes of

sarsen stone across an open plain,

then raise it as a rough-hewn sign.


What was the point,

and was it worth the cost?

Perhaps we'll never know.

The cipher has been lost,

and few remain who care.


Or is your message

confident and clear?

Mere megalithic idiom

to say that you were here.

Once.


John Walter Taylor

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12 April 2025