Carreg Samson

Cherry

By Rhiannonw

Fri, 30 May 2025
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north Pembrokeshire near Abercastle

Carreg Samson (Samson’s stone)
(– who else could have lifted it
on to its throne?)
A legend of a local Samson
putting it in place with one finger!
Sentinel in a field by the wild coast rugged.
Marker of where the corpses with ritual were buried.
Exposed now, but once well covered,
cool shelter appreciated by sheep.

Certificate U
Poem
Coastal Path
Nature

Comments

Submitted by Turlough on

A megalithic dolmen. I've been visiting these places in Ireland all my life and they never fail to mystify me as I try to imagine the human activity that led to their being there. They're always in peaceful and beautiful settings where a good old dose of fresh air helps you to think and reflect on life. Those stone age people certainly knew what they were doing.

Turlough

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for commenting. This is in a very windy and remote spot — as you say a place 'good to blow the cobwebs away'! We call them cromlechs in Wales. There are many around, and a collapsed one called Arthur's Stone quite near here (in England) above the Golden Valley. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for the cherries! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

I too have always been fascinated by these colossal stones, imagining that giants did once roam the eath in the long distant past. Your poem summarizes their enigma.

Enjoyed reading Rhiannon.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

thanks, Jenny. I think they had clever ways of manoeuvring the stones! But they do give the imagination scope, and must have involved a lot of hard work. Rhiannon