5. Ruin
Dunnottar Castle. For Day 5 of the November Poem-A-Day Challenge, a poem about beautiful ruins. ** You come from afar bearing the gift of your open self to this place from whence they say the honours of the land once slipped, hid in the hem of a buxom lady’s dress. What you see are its tired walls straining against the pressure of the wind, clinging with their last lives to the cliffs that saved them from past wars. ...