2014

TL4658 : Mill Road Cemetery artwork: Goldfinch

taken 10 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Mill Road Cemetery artwork: Goldfinch
Mill Road Cemetery artwork: Goldfinch
Indian granite. As part of the inauguration event, Councillor Catherine Smart is seen reading the poem which form the inscription. Mayor of Cambridge Paul Saunders is seen in the background. Graham Young discovered the poem on the Internet, and only later discovered that the poet was an exiled native of Cambridge!

Inscription:

One moment they perch to crane and peer
Then like children in a game they spur
Each other into flight, bouncing
Like raindrops, chinking like beads,
Weightless as wind-blown leaves.

They never seem to feed but to exist
On air in air, translucent,
Ubiquitous as dreams, sparks
In perpetual motion without origin
Or aim.

The atmosphere records
Their passage as a flash
Of jewels then
Like spirits they move on.

- Damaris West (Naylor)
‘Bird Stones’: Mill Road Cemetery artwork

Six standing stones and one wooden bench commissioned from sculptor Gordon Young, known for SD3036 : The Comedy Carpet in Blackpool and the NT2840 : 7stanes signposts. All are inscribed with poetry related to birds, and the stones have perches and water wells. Inaugurated by the sculptor and the Mayor of Cambridge, Paul Saunders, 22 February 2014.


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Keith Edkins   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 22 February, 2014   (more nearby)
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Saturday, 22 February, 2014
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4616 5813 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:12.1216N 0:8.2396E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4616 5813
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