Free Spirit

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

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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

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Circling seagulls soulfully

Singing sea shanties

Sorrowfully surf sea-shores

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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

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Homecoming

20 Monday Apr 2015

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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.

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

Morning Glory

05 Sunday Apr 2015

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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

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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

Spring Garden

06 Sunday Apr 2014

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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!)

Trees

10 Monday Mar 2014

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

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.

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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

Cuthbert Bank

18 Saturday Jan 2014

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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.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Inner Bird

21 Saturday Dec 2013

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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.

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)

Stillness

24 Saturday Aug 2013

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just as the butterfly

settles on a flower

and spreads her wings

in reverence to the sun

let our minds

still, and feast

on the nectar

of this sublime

life

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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

Where Did January Go?

11 Monday Mar 2013

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

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

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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

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Category Archives: Nature

Free Spirit

Seagulls – Haiku

Homecoming

Morning Glory

Spring Garden

Trees

Cuthbert Bank

Inner Bird

Stillness

Where Did January Go?

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