Cliche
29 Wednesday Jan 2014
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in29 Wednesday Jan 2014
Posted Poetry
in28 Tuesday Jan 2014
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, dog, humour, love, pets, poetry, puppy, Spike, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet
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
26 Sunday Jan 2014
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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)
23 Thursday Jan 2014
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inan old poem that made me smile 🙂
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)
18 Saturday Jan 2014
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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
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
14 Tuesday Jan 2014
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, archetype, insanity, longing, loss, madness, moon, poet, poetry, Sea, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet
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/
08 Wednesday Jan 2014
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inWishing everybody a health and happiness for 2014.
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
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
😀