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Free Spirit

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

Posted by Worldly Winds in NaPoWriMo17, Nature, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm Free Spirit, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm poetry, loneliness, nature, poetry, Worldly Winds poetry

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I am a free spirit –

I go where the North winds take me,

whilst the restless dried leaves tumble and fall,

the bitter breeze blows,

calling them.

 

I am in no man’s land –

free as the mountain streams,

following gravity’s pull to conditionality,

quietly seeping to the core,

deep down, calcified,

no one knows me,

no one owns me,

being a free spirit,

is lonely.

 

Free Spirit by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

2016

Picture Credit: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/296956169167530900/

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Seagulls – Haiku

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Haiku, NaPoWriMo, Nature, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Haiku, napowrimo, poetry, Seagulls, UK poet, Uk poetry, Western Haiku, writing, Yorkshire poet

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Circling seagulls soulfully

Singing sea shanties

Sorrowfully surf sea-shores

 

© Seagulls 05.09.2012

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Picture Credit:https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/408209153696784844/

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Homecoming

20 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Awards, NaPoWriMo, Nature, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm Homecoming, Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Geese, Homecoming, migrating, napowrimo, nature, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

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The geese flew north­ward home,
as the rains came down and quenched the ground,
and the winds bemoaned a lullaby.

The trees bowed down their lofty tops,
and the sun­burned leaves fan­dango farewell,
as the geese flew north­ward home.

The rivers rushed down to greet them,
and the curlews cried and cheered them on,
as the geese flew north­ward home.

Ticker tape leaves lay out a parade,
with a car­pet of clouds to has­ten their way,
as the geese flew north­ward home.

They squadroned a skein of for­ma­tions,
and the cur­rents caressed their wings,
The brown and black Peaks, to match their beaks,
as they flew north­wards home.

© Alexan­dra Carr-​​Malcolm 2015

Picture credit:https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/460985711831792188/

 

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Morning Glory

05 Sunday Apr 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Nature, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo15, nature, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

WHATS THE STORY Morning Glories

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sun is dawning

and a new day forming

I see the brightness in the sky

let me hope this morning glory

swiftly brings me to my lover’s side

 

© Morning Glory 05.04.15

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Photo Credit: Pinterest   http://www.hear2heal.com/whats-the-story-fine-art-photograph-morning-glory-sindi-short-p-3606.html

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Spring Garden

06 Sunday Apr 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in NaPoWriMo, Nature, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, napowrimo, poetry, spring, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

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whirligig washing line

purple pegs on parade

budding Bob blowing in the breeze

spring garden limes and greens

tilted table bows to the birds

solitary snail discarded

sparrows chirrup

regardless

 

Spring Garden 06.04.2014

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

(Budding Bob is our apple tree in the corner – so named by my son because you bob for apples!)

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Trees

10 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Nature, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, autumn, nature, poetry, trees, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

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Matchmaker trees,

trunks of knobbly knees,

arthritic twigs,

that creak in the breeze.

A splutter of leaves,

yellowed nicotine trees,

the breath of a smoker,

lets out a wheeze.

We’re dying, they weep,

as autumn does creep,

within crispy veins,

as they lay down to sleep.

 

© Trees 28.09.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

Ash Tree in Fall (Photo credit: hz536n/George Thomas)

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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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Inner Bird

21 Saturday Dec 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Nature, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Bird, loner, poetry, Robin, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, solitary, sorrow, UK poet, Uk poetry, winter, Yorkshire poet

Rotkehlchen bird/European Robin (Erithacus rub...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robin in the green,

camouflaged unseen,

always stands alone,

and in the summer gone.

 

Through arctic ice and snow,

you’re always there on show,

pitched on a handle’s fork,

whilst the gardener works.

 

Despite the bitter chill,

your sight brings festive thrill,

iconic feathered friend,

who stays ‘til winters end.

 

Solitary bird,

your song remains unheard,

hiding in the green,

camouflaged, unseen.

 

© Inner Bird 21.12.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

Photo Credit – Rotkehlchen bird/European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Suomi: Punarinta (Erithacus rubecula) Rheinland-Pfalzissa Saksassa. Français : Rouge-gorge familier (Erithacus rubecula) de Rhénanie-Palatinat, en Allemagne. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Stillness

24 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Buddhism, Nature, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Buddhism, butterflies, contentment, enlightenment, poetry, simplicity, stillness, sun, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

Der Schmetterlingsjäger (The butterfly hunter)...

just as the butterfly

settles on a flower

and spreads her wings

in reverence to the sun

so

let our minds

still, and feast

on the nectar

of this sublime

life

© Stillness 20.08.2013

                                               by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

 

 

Der Schmetterlingsjäger (The butterfly hunter) by Carl Spitzweg (1840), a depiction from the era of butterfly collection. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Where Did January Go?

11 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Nature, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, frost, love, months, poetry, seasons, snow, summer, UK poet, Weather, Yorkshire poet

Sunrise over Stonehenge on the summer solstice...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where did January go?

Bleak stormed nights

shrouded in snow

February breezed in

without a hello

wearing cloak of frost

and refused to go

until marched out

by the April fools

who cast a clout

breaking all the rules

then come what may

June soon came

and played her part

to warm the heart

of birds and bees

and summer

trees

 

© Where Did January Go? 11.03.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Sunrise over Stonehenge on the summer solstice, 21 June 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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