Visit to Clun

Clustered village in a vale of sombre hills,
high mound aside with towering ruin:
gaping, ragged window voids that frame
stunning views of drop to valley floor
and greens and browns and sun-caught yellow of the further slopes;
tumbling, swollen river rushing round the mound,
and seats to sit and watch the scene below,
soothed by the stillnes and the splashing sound.