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The Trees

The trees are coming

into leaf
Like something almost

being said;
The recent buds relax

and spread,
Their greenness is a

kind of grief.

Is it that they are

born again
And we grow old? No,

they die too.
Their yearly trick of

looking new
Is written down in rings

of grain.

Yet still the unresting

castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness

every May.
Last year is dead, they

seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh,

afresh.

by Philip Larkin

Parklife Events

Coming Up...

Camp Bling Yule / Winter Solstice Ceremony

Join us at Camp Bling to celebrate the ancient Yule / Winter Solstice festival on Saturday December 22nd from 5.30pm. Bring food and natural offerings to welcome in the new solar year. All Welcome.

Parkstalls will be held under the railway bridge in Southend on Sea High Street on the second Saturday of every month, starting at 12.00noon. Please come and help us out or just lend your support.

Parkmeeting(s) on the third Wednesday of every month, 7.30pm till 9.00pm at The Last Post (Clifftown Road end), Clifftown Road, Southend on Sea.

Regular informal meetings with Parklife for news updates and event planning.

Our annual Picnic in the Park is held on the date marking the formal opening of Priory Park in 1917, when the original 30 acres of land, including the gardens and Cluniac Priory of St Mary of Prittlewell, were presented to the people of Southend on Sea for perpetual public use by famous local benefactor Robert Arthur Jones.

Telephone: 07739 189165
Answerphone: 01702 340099

e-mail: priory_parklife@yahoo.co.uk

To get info check out: www.savepriorypark.org