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An event to celebrate the end of World War II 60 years organised by Agostina Hawkins for Bracknell Borough Council UK

The Memory Tree

Sandhurst Memorial Park

November 2005

Some Of The Poems

written in encounter with artist / poet paul Conneally

the war me being born falling leaves mrs page Bracknell what’s the point of it all? withering wind jonathan riley sandhurst cold november we lay poppies in remembrance dominic urry sandhurst sorrow tears trickle down the family’s face chris hargreaves sandhurst war breaks out the last butterfly of summer mrs jones sandhurst travelling man my father sells horses to the army ‘man with no name’ sandhurst every leaf falls the day that one of your family dies michaela sear sandhurst

it shouldn’t have happened in the first place autumn sadness mark lewendon woodleigh so much death dead leaves on the cold wet ground oliver toms sandhurst corpses lying everywhere the dead leaves of autumn max jeffries derby green remembrance day my dad prepares for kosovo sarah ferrie blackwater air raids dad says his dad’s dog barked through them graham smith bracknell trees shed their leaves the pain that comes with loss of life d.a. sandhurst the second world war my father’s big trip janet oldfield sandhurst

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