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Football Cairn

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Football Cairn, a bunch of ancient stones at the summit
of a Northumberland hill pinkly covered with heather,
a hefty climb to see the prehistoric cup and ring markings.
But I bet no one ever played footie here … or then again,
perhaps they did, millennia ago, blue men hoofing round
with a brown ball, a prehistoric Beckham or Michael Owen.

Notes

Photographs of Football Cairn can be seen at http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/33655 with a panoramic view at http://rockart.ncl.ac.uk/interactive/panoramas/football_cairn.htm

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/football-cairn/