Linda’s email arrived and she said :”Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: ends with “ound.” Find a word (or words) that ends with “ound” and use it any way you’d like. Have fun!“
So I was out on Thursday and this is what I found .
Sir Antony Gormley’s sculpture entitled “Sound II” has stood in the Crypt below Winchester Cathedral since the late 1980s. During the rainy months, the mysterious sculpture can often be found holding water in its cupped hands, silent in contemplation as the water level rises around him in the winter months. I took this photo on Thursday this week and this is what it said to me.
Underground I hear the sound of history as it mingles with the living.
The constant footfall as people walk around in search of learning. It’s hard to work out which is which, the old the new the in-between. The noise of the workmen as they lay the groundwork for this building.
They were too rash and built too fast a tower built in fourteen years could never last!
I stand here spellbound listening to sound as it tumbles to the ground… How many died, the mistake compound , they have to build it again.
It still stands, this sturdier place where now the crypt I grace.
Pilgrims walked above as the Monks held their noses and tended to their roseries. Till the Henry’s men swept in changed the religion.
They pounded on the doors they murdered and stole the riches.
Later the roundheads came and defaced all they could touch, they rode their horses up the aisle and let their hounds run free.
I feel it all and wonder who was hellbound and who was heavenbound.
Too many thoughts my mind confound….
At night the history gets stronger I hear and see much more, sit with me a while and I will astound you.
THIS IS PART OF LINDAGHILL’S STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS SATURDAY.
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