Those Days.
Quiet gloom descends
as we too downward must stoop
mid ranks of huge rock
tusk-etched and damply oozing.
No mod-cons here could we see..
First glimpse of our trip
into KInver cave-homes famed
with bone-thirsty digs
as first explorers found tombs
in cavernous back rooms
adorned with revered remains.
No comfort here could we see..
Eyes glaze at the sight
of cavemen's stalactite world
rife with sheer danger,
dark places in which to hide
from life's daily growls
underground spaces turned
into valued havens.
No b & b here could we see.
Airless we gasp before guided
back from cave fantasy
where ancient sounds curdle
more than timid unease
until outside again we gladly
let those days recede.
No welcome here could we see.
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Author:
Fay Slimm. (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I wrote this while looking for bed and breakfast on a holiday break and visiting caves with a fantastic history.
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What an interesting place, Fay. Would be my kind of holiday. A visit to a history of ordinary people with real if slightly different lives. No pomp and ceremony involved.
I hope you found a decent B&B in the end.....
Ha -- - those caves are by now a national treasure Dave and it is amazing how large and roomy they are........ for some time now they have been cared for by the National Trust so have many visitors but no vandalism.
Kinver caves.Cheap.no mod cons.Fully air conditioned.I know the caves at Chedder are the same temperature inside,all year round.Hence why ancient man and woman could live within during harsh winters.
Glad you enjoyed your "tour" at Kinver however.Been once.A long time ago.
Ah yes Neil Chedder has its famous caves and like Kinver they with the Hilll Fort date back to the Bronze Age but lived in by successive generation of poor folk until the late sixteenth century or just after so I believe - - wow .. it must have been better than straw roofed dwellings especially in winter.
which reminds me, I need to buy another pillow ..
joking aside, although I've never been, you describe the kind of place that I might easily feel at home in .......................... x
Yup I think you would likely make a warm rock home in some of those large caves Nev. - you would need an extra pillow or two when winter arrives to freeze Kinver-hides rigid though............x
Those days - or rather these days - are days for fine writes like this Fay.
Is this the "Hard Rock Cafe?" "No welcome," there either.
You spoke of "cavemen," what age are these caves?
Looks like an interesting place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Thank you for some interesting insight to a piece of history, - Phil A.
Kinver Hillfort which is behind the caves dates back to the Bronze Age so they are ancient and yet they were lived in on and off as late as the sixteenth century - now though they are owned by the National Trust - its so interesting to visit or even to read about then Phil - - like you I would not like to live quite so primitively - - thanks a load for your comment.
Exploring caves can be so meaningful Fay, like trees, if only they could talk.
Andy
Absolutely true dear Andy - if only the walls could speak what tales they would tell. .
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