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Cliche

29 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, sex, shame, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

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last night

a clichéd mistake

you asleep

me awake

the same old song

guiltless blame

wrapped in sheets

of sweat and shame

 

© Cliché 29.01.2014

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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Spike

28 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Humour, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, dog, humour, love, pets, poetry, puppy, Spike, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

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Small and scruffy,

brown and woofy,

Spikey Spike dog,

is my puppy.

 

Scared of cats,

sniffs the breeze,

barks the birds,

to the trees.

 

Sits and begs,

for a treat,

always savoury,

never sweet.

 

Longs for noodles,

shivers for cheese,

dog snot windows,

covered in sneeze.

 

Paws all a twitch,

Whoops delight,

dreams of walkies,

in the night.

 

© Spike 28.01.2014

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

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Knitting Couplets

26 Sunday Jan 2014

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A little dexterity is helpful in working with ...

 

 

 

 

 

Knitting with syllables

pen and purl

lexical needles

pattern unfurls

pencils slip stitches

pens purl clichés

scheming skeins

unpicking dreams

slip stitch sibilance

cast off vigilance

trying hard again

to crochet a cardigan

No – not me

I prefer

knitting poems.

 

© Knitting couplets 16.01.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

A little dexterity is helpful in working with knitting needles (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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I Believe

23 Thursday Jan 2014

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an old poem that made me smile 🙂

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A tawny owl (Strix aluco). Français : Une chou...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shall I tell you what I believe?

It changes daily with the breeze.

 

Reflect and pause,

pause and think…

 

Believe nothing.

 

© I Believe 19.01.21013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

A tawny owl (Strix aluco). Français : Une chouette hulotte (Strix aluco). Русский: Серая или обыкновенная неясыть (Strix aluco). Türkçe: boyu 37-39 cm, kanat açıklığı 94-104 cm olan Alaca baykuş (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Cuthbert Bank

18 Saturday Jan 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Nature, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, cooling towers, Cuthbert Bank, Homer, homing pigeon, pigeon, pigeon loft, pigeon racing, poetry, Sheffield, Sky Edge, squab, steel industry, Steelers, UK poet, Uk poetry, working class, Yorkshire, Yorkshire poet

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Ringing the changes supplementing slave wages,

falling down sheds mark an era that’s dead.

Working class men with a tab and a pint,

punching the clock as their bird takes flight.

Banding and tagging the old boys are lagging,

as technology brings the changes to win.

Racing the homer with nothing odd to see,

squab, Ilion song as their ancestors fly free,

smoke grey flight over cooling tower industry,

rambling and racing as the voyageurs dance here.

Northern man’s soul – more than a fancier.

Loftier heights view the world of the skies edge,

new hope in full bloom dispels shadows of old gloom,

bygone Steelers nurturing tomorrow’s youth squeakers,

as they reach for the stars, in plumed aviation

Columbidae class reaches point liberation.

 

© Cuthbert Bank 18.01.2014

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

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Moonlight and Madness

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Loss, Muse, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, archetype, insanity, longing, loss, madness, moon, poet, poetry, Sea, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

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mercury moon madness

diurnal tide sadness

solitary soul cottage

penning poet’s pottage

quill warrior wordsmith

archetypal Queen or myth?

 

©Moonlight and Madness 14.01.2014

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Photo Credit – Member name Geralt – http://pixabay.com/en/tree-kahl-moon-human-group-66465/

 

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Happy 2014

08 Wednesday Jan 2014

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Dagda Publishing, Tipping Sheep, Tipping Sheep (the right way), Worldly Winds

Wishing everybody a health and happiness for 2014.

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Thank you for your support, visits, likes and comments throughout 2013. I feel very lucky to have such kind and generous visitors to my site. I hope to be a little bit more active with my poetry in 2014, and look forward to your comments and kind feedback.

Review of 2013

2013 was a very productive and creative year for me. I was lucky enough to have poetry published by Dagda Publishing in two anthologies –

Western Haiku, and

Threads

I also released my first anthology, Tipping Sheep (the right way).

I took part in the open mic session for the ‘Off the shelf’ event held in the Sheffield Winter Gardens. It was a cold but fun day with many fabulously talented poets sharing their work.

What 2014 has in store?

February will see more of my poems appear in two anthologies by Dagda Publishing – Passages, and Ballads (details to follow.)

I am currently working on my second anthology, but it is slow going, trying to juggle work and pull together my poems into a cohesive theme – but I am getting there! Self-publishing was a steep learning curve which I don’t think I will be repeating if I can help it!

New Year’s Resolutions

I’m not really one for making resolutions as I feel if I want to do something enough, I just get on with it! However, this year I have joined the Veganuary campaign, and I am trying to be vegan for a month. It isn’t as hard as I anticipated, (already being a veggie and having an intolerance towards eggs) but I do really miss cheese!

Will I continue to be vegan after January? I doubt it, but I will be far more aware of looking at food labels and being choosier about my diet.

Hopes for 2014

My main concern is my 13 year old dog that is starting to slow down and struggle with Arthritis. I hope to keep him active, happy and pain free for as long as I can.

I am hoping that the economic climate starts to pick up. The downturn has severely impacted upon my work as an interpreter; this means I have to spend more time away from my writing whilst trying to source work. Being a freelance worker is not secure and is unpredictable in this current time of austerity.

I hope to enter more competitions, submit more poems for publishing and have more space and time for writing and blogging.

What I’m currently reading

I was lucky enough to get a few good books as Christmas presents which are on my, ‘to read’ pile.

These include,

Watching the English by Kate Fox

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Women who run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

What I’m currently listening to

With great sadness I will have to put away my beautiful Tzukettes CD. This has really set a festive spirit in my household, (and in my car) over the holiday period. Judie Tzuke and her talented daughters, Bailey and Tallula, sure know how to make a fab Christmas album 🙂

Santa also bought me the latest Stevie Nicks DVD which I am looking forward to watching when I get the house to myself.

 

I wish you all a happy, healthy and creative 2014!

Alex

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