Cissbury Ring
Cissbury Ring
Offshoot of the South Downs
The hill fort towers over Sussex and the sea
Crowned with gorse, a vantage point,
Cissbury Ring, where ponies roam.
Your dykes and ramparts cover mines
Twelve thousand years old
Where humans first dug your flint
To be armed against each other.
More lately machine guns fired
At ships and aircraft in the last World War
Exploiting your heights, as humankind
Has done for twelve millennia.
Looking over Seven Sisters and Brighton,
Worthing and the Isle of Wight
Cissbury Ring is a scenic platform
And pretext for a poem.
John Twisleton 23 August 2023
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