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Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:35 am
by MarieM
Tweeted by Lissadell House‏ @LissadellHouse:

Thinking of a name for the Leonard Cohen Memorial Garden at Lissadell, love to have suggestions based on his music :)

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Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 4:27 am
by vickiwoodyard
Brings tears to my eyes to read this and look at the lovely photo. Thank you.

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 7:09 pm
by mutti
'Come Healing Gardens'
'Passing Through Gardens'
'Swimming Moon Gardens'
'Leonard Cohen Memorial Garden'
not the greatest ideas but curious if others have some...I just looked at the Lissadell House site on Facebook and they have some good ones. An especially beautiful one is Poet's Corner.

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:53 pm
by its4inthemorning
The Green Lilac Park

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 4:07 am
by vickiwoodyard
Green Lilac Park. I love it!

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:19 pm
by sourire
How about

Unified Hearts Park

or..... ;-)
Tea and Oranges Park
Graceful and Green Park



but I love Green Lilac Park too.

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 5:51 pm
by FOXWOOD
"The places where I used to play"

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 8:05 pm
by Geoffrey
in one of leonard's songs he sings 'myself, i long for love and light', so why not give him just that: a garden of love and light.

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:38 pm
by vickiwoodyard
I like this one, too. "A Garden of Love and Light." It will be hard for them to pick the best name for it.

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:56 pm
by B4real
Some good answers!

What about “The Leaf Of Life Garden” or “Leaves Of Life Garden” relating to a verse from the song Sisters Of Mercy.

“If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.”

Also taking note of the fact that the tree planted for Leonard is a Canadian maple which seasonally replaces its leaves in accordance with the eternal cycle of life itself.

Maybe the recognizable recitation “A Thousand Kisses Deep”, which are symbolically below in the branching roots of the tree.

Some different simple thoughts: “Cohen’s Corner” or Leonard’s Place” or Leonard’s Way”.

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:20 am
by Squidgy
Geoffrey wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2017 8:05 pm in one of leonard's songs he sings 'myself, i long for love and light', so why not give him just that: a garden of love and light.
This one gets my vote.

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:39 pm
by Geoffrey
Squidgy wrote:
>This one gets my vote.
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Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 9:13 pm
by Squidgy
Geoffrey wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:39 pm Squidgy wrote:
>This one gets my vote.
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Back at you, Darling.
You know, I still have long red hair and I can drive a tractor.
But no way am I moving to Norway. You'll need to come here.

Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 2:44 am
by MarieM
This was tweeted by Linda Barnard @barnardfilm today
At Lissadell, the legendary house near Sligo in the wild coastal region that inspired the great poet, Yeats, there’s almost a cult of #LeonardCohen, who played there in 2010 in tribute to the great Irish writer who inspired him. #leonardcohen #satwinireland #OnlyInIreland

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Re: Lissadell House seeks help naming Cohen Garden

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 6:50 am
by B4real
Thanks Marie,
Just a bit of additional tweeted info about these images used last year for LC's birthday in this link - https://twitter.com/LissadellHouse/stat ... 5202835457

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.... and in the background in wonderful colour is the Canadian Maple that Maarten planted in 2010 on behalf of the LC Forum as stated in your first photo of this thread 8)