Dogger Land

Oceans washed over a land
before what we know began.


There were rivers of people
living lives in
ignorance of future seas.


Waking, trekking, sleeping,
needing,
loving too -

feeding kids and fashioning stones
smiling in the dawn of another living day...


Using time that passed their way
making journeys, seeking prey;


giving heed to seasons change
pondering starlight, art
and understandings,
mysterious and strange.


making food
and making homes

times of silent thought
amid ancestral bones -

times of pleasure
times of pain

then the sun came out again.



Living in a present
leave behind a past
no need for a future
when you’re sticking to the task

in Dogger Land


until the waters came and chased them all away


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Now we’re more advanced, they say
we’ve moved on from that distant day -

controlling worlds by words alone
ordering life from a mobile phone -

no more silence
no more pain -

if roads are blocked
we take the train -

if clouds are full of poison rain
we’ll artifice some sunlight,
to make it all seem right again...

forget about those anxious thoughts
in startled scientific courts

as boats bump against the cliff tops
in our storm swept ports

we’re sticking to our task in hand
just as we were taught....

draw a picture make a plan -
take a holiday
fake a tan -

educated heads in educated sand.

we too are washed away
with everything
that was our Land

it’s you and me
who are beneath the sea -

we’d so many eyes we couldn’t see

everything that was

Dogger Land












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