Please can anybody help me I am trying to find the author of the poem below

Giants gathered in circular form,
Waiting,
Waiting for the next coming of their God.
Druids, small in stature,
Feeding all the giants.
Singing,
Dancing,
Chanting,
Waiting.
Waiting for the pleasure that their sacrifice will bring,
Waiting for the meeting with their new immortal king.

Thankyou in anticipation

How do you know those words are correct? Memory? Found on slip of paper? Heard on radio or television? Sometimes having the source will help, I mean.

This is a long standing saga with a friend of mine. I had to put a set of stones in my garden because people keep driving on to it digging up the grass.

Emails have been going backwards and forwards with poems about Stonehenge and its my turn to find out who wrote this one but when I say I have exhausted every avenue I really have. A friend of mine told me about this website hence my posting.

I got really excited when I saw the reply and I thought the author was Hugh Clary I did realise however that that was you.

So in answer to your question I don't know! have you any idea's how I can find out!

I'm not quite sure I follow all of that, but the reason I asked is that there are many anthologies of poetry that have indexes for searching by the first line of a given poem. The Home Book(s) of Poetry come immediately to mind. Perhaps a trip to your local library might be rewarded by a first line search?

I don't see it on the internet, so unless you happen to find a reader for whom it rings a bell, that may be the only way to go.

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Maybe your friend wrote it himself. Is that a possibility?

Thanks for the advice I will certainly follow that one up. Whats annoying is that he is not a closet druid so he must have found it on the internet.

I have exhausted all the sites I can think of but the library is definately a good starting point.

Thanx

That is exactly wot I said but he says not. I just can't believe I can't find the author it is really annoying!

Have you any idea's?

I couldn't find it either. Can it be a translation?

If it is a translation how I do find out by whom?

Library Internet any idea's...

I tried the keywords in french without success (loads of druids in france), dutch or german seems very unlikely (no history of druids), so I don't know anymore. I think you have to be lucky for this one. Maybe someone who once read it recognises it.

To me it looks a bit like a poem written for a novel. Something to add some mystery to it. In my opinion, as poetry in itself, it is not very good. So maybe you can try some forums of fantasy book fans. Lots of druids and big stones in fantasy novels. Difficult assignment. What will happen when you can't find it?

My neighbour down the road will have won which is a hard cross to bear.

But never one to give up easily I will give it a week before I resign myself to the fact that he has on this occassion piped me to the post..

You can't win em all!

Thanks for your message

I think it was written by someone in your group, if your friend denies authorship then maybe it is by his partner or even, if you'll excuse the suggestion, someone in your own household. If none of these, then you could quiz the postman, or the milkman, or the binman. Good luck.

Piped you to the post? Nah, I'm not asking, never mind.

John Ban Mackenzie, 1796-1864, known in the gaelic as 'An piobaire ban' or the fair-haired piper, hailed from Strathpeffer up in bonny Scotland. As a young man he entered and won several prestigious bagpiping competitions and eventually made a name for himself as 'the greatest piper in Scotland'. He came to the notice of the marquis Breadalbane and was offered, and took, the post of piper in residence at Taymouth Castle. So John Ban was in effect 'piped to the post' although whether this has any relevance to the poetic posts above is unlikely. There is a standing stone in Strathpeffer apparently dating from pictish times, so a bit older than Scholsey's, it has an eagle and a horseshoe incised into it which we are told means it was used for some form of marriage ceremony. Hope this clears things up.

I'm now very confused and it dosent take a lot what has the greatest piper in scotland got to do with my poem?

Am I missing something?

Or do you and Hugh know each other...

Sorry Scholsey, I was just being a bit flippant. As recompense I've spent a couple of fruitless hours with google and like yourself and the others have drawn a complete blank. I looked at 'new age' sites to no avail and then at those fantasy gaming forums, as suggested by Desi, also with no result. I don't think your friend is playing quite fair in giving you this piece of nonsense; if it's not in the public domain then how on earth are you expected to find the author? A good quiz, like a good crossword, must be,with a certain amount of honest effort, susceptible to conclusion. This piece was surely not written by a skilled poet or writer, and if it was part of a pop song then I would have thought google would have trawled it up. In conclusion, the answer to your question must be closer to home. Good luck.

So John Ban was in effect 'piped to the post' ...

Thanks. Idioms do not translate well from country to country even in the same language. To further hijack scholsey's thread, I don't suppose you are any relation to the (in)famous Dick Turpin?

Well boys and I am assuming that you all are I have decided to give in.

Although I have to say, I can't believe between the 4 of us we have'nt been able to solve this one.

I agree with Paul Turpin he's not playing fair!!

Thanks for your all your help (I think!) anyway.

Just to let you know he did write it himself thats whay nobody could find it should have listened to you in the first place.

Good poem though!

Well, slap your friend from us.

pam

yes please. (by the way, Pam and me are both not boys as far as I'm aware)