{"id":222,"date":"2011-04-14T20:26:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-04-14T20:26:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:26:32","slug":"paula-jordan-is-at-coole-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/paula-jordan-is-at-coole-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Jordan is at Coole Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dead Trees of Coole Park<\/span>

On a silent Sunday take me to Coole Park where the dead trees whisper<\/span>
To where the people of letters sleep <\/span>
Etched letter by letter, vandals of the word speak in this cemetery of autographs<\/span>
Bone-cold<\/span>
The air is silent and still awash with the copper beach ghosts<\/span>
Their words scattered like seeds, fluttering to the far corners of the earth<\/span>
Engraved<\/span>
I see a heart stamped \u2018forever with love\u2019<\/span>
And just like applause the rain falls kissing a wet smack on the tree of death<\/span>
Until in the sun\u2019s afterglow you can see the brightest star appear<\/span>
And in that place and in my heart I see beauty<\/span>



*Paula Jordan<\/span> lives in Dublin, Ireland. She has re-discovered her love of<\/span>
poetry.<\/span>


Dead Trees of Coole Park<\/span> was written from this image by <\/span>John Smythe<\/a><\/p>\n





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