Kevin Michael Bloor

Camelot in the High Peak

I came to live in Buxton

A liaison I did seek

‘Mong hills, where walkers like to walk:

The pleasant Higher Peak

 

I came up here to conquer

Kill the coward in my shoes

From deeper Dales of Derbyshire

I’d walked out on my muse!

 

I came to find my true love

Who I’d lost a life ago

I missed her hair of sunlit gold

Bound up in Beltane bow

 

I came because she called me

‘Cross the lonely years we’d lost

‘Cause love had kept us crazy still

We cared not what it cost

 

I came to stay in Buxton

When the stars above aligned

For my rose of rhyme and romance

The poet in me pined!

 

I came to live in Buxton

To the town that time forgot

But by beauty breathed on Buxton

She conjured Camelot!