The Memory Tree
November 2005
Artist / Poet Paul Conneally
An event to celebrate the end of World
War II 60 Years On
Organised by Agostina
Hawkins for
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take the
workshop out into the
park football pitch
touchlines the skate park The Coffee
Spot Café enjoy
encounters with people not out to make art to
write poems explain
quickly what haiku
might be today every person
approached makes a poem the
skateboarders keen to as
they put it to ‘stop doing
nothing’ get to grips with thoughts of war peace and the season of autumn write the
poems out on rice paper hang them in a tree the memory
tree later we release
paper doves watch them fly high into the november sky and wish for
peace paul conneally November 2005 |
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