Here’s one I made earlier 🙂
Cremate me in your
fires of passion,
burn my soul
indelibly,
memories will
a story fashion,
of how we
loved,
and used
to be.
26 Tuesday Feb 2013
Posted Poetry
inHere’s one I made earlier 🙂
Cremate me in your
fires of passion,
burn my soul
indelibly,
memories will
a story fashion,
of how we
loved,
and used
to be.
23 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted Daily life, Poetry
inTags
anthology, appreciation, poetry, support, Thank you, UK poet, Yorkshire poet
Thank you everyone for continuing to visit my page. I apologise for my lack of activity. I have been working on my first anthology. I’m sorting out the last twiddly bits and hope to be releasing it in the next few weeks – watch this space!
In the mean time – here is a golden oldie. Thank you for supporting, inspiring and taking the time to visit, I really do appreciate it! Alex 🙂
I’m sorry if I don’t get to you,
I apologise, I’m slow,
four hundred plus emails,
my inbox about to blow!
I know I’m not quite regular,
at times I can be slack;
I promise I’ll try to visit you,
and leave a message back!
The spam thing – what’s all that about?
Messages, I just don’t get??
Enlarge my what?!! Increase my stats?!
Delete, delete, forget!!
I try my best, I really do,
so many blogs to read,
It’s becoming like a full time job,
an assistant, I so need!
I’d like to say to everyone,
who’s liked or followed me,
to each I’d give a big old hug,
you’ve all inspired me!!
© A Big Old Hug 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Photo credit: Limited edition A cover (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
23 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted Poetry
inhttp://igg.me/at/dagdapublishing/x/924031
Hi all. We hope you’re having a good weekend, whatever it is you are doing.
We have been running a crowdfunding campaign over at Indiegogo for about 10 days now (link just at the top there). In this time we have managed to get $251 in contribution, towards our total goal of $5,000. With this campaign we are hoping to raise the funds to help push ourselves to the next level –
Turning Dagda Publishing into a proper poetry and literary fiction publishing house.
The funds raised will help us do even more to promote the next generation of writers, helping them on their way to being successful authors, and securing the future of poetry and literary fiction. Primarily, the funds will go toward such things as – Business costs, marketing, advertising, website design professional print runs, ISBN purchase, advances for authors, and organising poetry events in the…
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21 Thursday Feb 2013
Tags
Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, class system, class war, gunner, poetry, tax, tax avoidance, UK poet, Yorkshire accent, Yorkshire poet
The Old Gunner
Last one to go down
Fighting hard
A shooting star
Bucks the trend
Yet to what end?
Keep your feet to the fire
Squash the poor man down
Loopholes and promises
It’s gunner change
It’s gunner end
Taxing the senses
Try hard to pretend
Banking your pence’s
And yet to what end?
Ground moonbeams roasted
And fed to the masses
Who don’t ask questions
Morals and molasses
Standoff at Dodge City
Ten paces at dawn
Ethical genocide
Battle lines drawn
Highway robbery
Caffeine snobbery
Dead man’s boots
Amazonian roots
The Old Gunner
Last one to go down
Fighting hard
A shooting star
Bucks the trend
Yet to what end?
© The Old Gunner 21.02.2013
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Cowboy (Photo credit: Kevin Zollman)
20 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted Poetry
inI’ve just ordered my copy 🙂
How exciting 😀
Well, here we are, on another release day. Thinkulations is now available for purchase in paperback and Kindle formats. Follow the links below to get a copy for yourself.
Our first collected works by a single author, this is a collection of 50 poems by Paul D Hegginson spanning the last ten years.
Included in this collection are poetic treatises on life, love, the nature of existence, the metaphysical world, nature, and the soul of the poet. This is, simply, a beautifully crafted world of words captured in time and space. An essential collection of poetry by this exciting new author.
Featuring cover artwork by the amazing Lucy Hartshorn, with cover typsetting by A D Warr, and edited by Reg Davey.
Paperback will cost you £4.00 + p&p and the ebook is priced at £3.08, which we feel is highly reasonable (and probably the cost of a coffee at Starbucks…
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17 Sunday Feb 2013
Posted Poetry
inFor Parinirvana Day
Vision of purity
Adamantine Noble Lord
Jewel in the lotus
Revered for your calm
Assuredly present beyond
Space or time
A cleanser of Death – Oh
Tantric delight
Turning my heart to
Visualise you, always so present
A sacred shared vow
© Vajrasattva 2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Vajrasattva Buddha with Bell (Ghanta) and Thunderbolt (Vajra), Tibet, 18th century (Photo credit: opacity)
16 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted Poetry
inHello all. We decided not to post a featured poem, instead this is just to remind you of a few things going on with us at the moment.
First up, suppose the main piece of news at the moment, is that we have a collection out on Wednesday 20th Feb (this Wednesday) for sale – “Thinkulations” by Paul D Hegginson. Available for the reasonable price of £4 (paperback from Lulu.com) and £2.99 (Kindle/Ebook) this is a collection of 50 poems from the last 10 years on the subjects of life, love, the nature of being and the nature of the poet themselves. Featuring cover artwork by the extremely talented Lucy Hartshorn (Lucy Illustrates on Facebook), this is a collection of poems anyone should have in their collection. Buy a copy and help us support new writers.
Secondly, we are still looking for submissions for our Western Haiku anthology, you have…
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14 Thursday Feb 2013
Posted Poetry
inI have a problem
And I can only explain
In five, seven, five.
It started last year,
A competition entry,
To write a haiku.
I liked the feeling
The counting of syllables,
The three lined pattern.
And I couldn’t stop.
I entered sixty-seven.
My new obsession.
I count on fingers,
The syllables on digits,
As I speak out loud.
Tip tap on paper
My spidery hands tap, tap,
Checking the numbers.
I saw the doctor,
He watched my finger counting,
He thinks I’m quite mad.
My mother just sighs,
She asks if I want carrots
And I can’t answer …
Without extra words.
I would love carrots, thank you.
Thank you, mother, thanks.
My boyfriend left me.
He thinks I’m a total freak.
I cried for a week.
I don’t miss him now,
His PS3, stinky socks,
Or his ignorance.
So, I’ll carry on
Counting my tapping fingers
And being…
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14 Thursday Feb 2013
Posted Poetry
inLink to our Indiegogo campaign.
Good day WordPress. We have a bit of news to share today. We are now underway with our Crowdfunding campaign, to help us put into action our plan of becoming an Indie publisher of literature and poetry. Obviously, these things require money, and this is one of the best ways of us sourcing some finances.
Now, as you know, we have been going for just over a year now, and in this time we have published over a hundred new poems by new and exciting writers, and have put out two small anthologies, are working on another, and a poetry collection by Paul D Hegginson, amngst other projects. The funds we raise from our Indiegogo campaign will help us bring out even more publications, better funded, better marketed and more successful.
The campaign is to raise an initial $5000 for business and marketing costs, obviously…
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14 Thursday Feb 2013
Posted Poetry
inIf you’ve got a few spare pennies, please help 🙂