15 Friday Nov 2013
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Tiratanaloka shrine (Photo credit: Triratna Photos)
Hi
Just to let you know I am vanishing off on retreat for two weeks. I will be back on the 29th November, hopefully all refreshed and buzzing with poetry 🙂
You can find me on Facebook – please feel free to visit and follow 🙂
13 Wednesday Nov 2013
Posted in Childhood Memories, Poetry
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, chickenpox, childhood, Christmas Eve, loss, love, memories, memory, Mother, Mum, poetry, Polka dot, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet
They called you ‘big Dot’,
and I was ‘little Dot’,
you hated that.
Remember when,
on Christmas Eve,
chickenpox struck
with great malaise?
Granddad came to visit me,
and how he laughed,
and how he teased,
‘spotty Dotty’, he would say.
Remember the day, he came to play,
in his best green polka dot shirt?
‘Who’s spotty now?’
I shouted out loud.
You hit me,
it hurt.
© Dorothy 14.11.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
07 Thursday Nov 2013
Posted in Poetry
The brave young men from yesteryear
we must remember their sacrifice
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04 Monday Nov 2013
Posted in Poetry
Remembering
Dedicated to those gone, too soon and too young –
Always in our hearts…
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How can it be?
When it is not natural.
Not this way,
from the blind side.
How can it be?
Order?
When it is out of order,
out of the ordinary,
extra ordinary.
You oxymoron,
natural order.
How can it be?
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© Natural Order 07.11.2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Findlay’s spirit (Photo credit: beccaplusmolly)
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28 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Grief, Heartbreak, Longing & Waiting, Loss, Muse, Poetry
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, anonimity, cry, heartbreak, longing, loss, moon, muse, poetry, stars, Sybarite, teardrops, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet
Veiled in anonymity,
hidden from the world to see,
living out my life I’m never known.
Feeling that I don’t belong;
you all sing a different song,
quietly I slip on by unseen.
As the moon its teardrops cry,
each a star lights up the sky,
as it hears my heartbreak every night.
One day though I will belong,
you will hear my siren’s song,
ring throughout the universe unbound.
Until then I’m here to stay,
writing with my words I play,
poets sybarite will haunt my heart.
© Sybarites 28.10.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
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21 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Daily life, Humour, Poetry
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Common cold, head cold, hot toddy, humour, Influenza, Olbas Oil, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, Vicks, Yorkshire poet
Just to let everyone know – my woman flu has finally cleared up! I just thought I’d share this silly poem for fun – thank you for all the well wishes 🙂
A poet with a head cold
is not so good to see
fuelled by Olbas and by Vicks
tissues to fell a tree
Cannot think of words to write
has lost their sense of meter
rhymes won’t work and sPeLing’s gone
it could be writ much neater
My brain’s contracted that’s 4 sure
and poems just turn out grotty
So I’ll just snuggle in my bed
and knock back ten hot toddies
© WoMan Flu 21.10.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Image of a container of Vicks VapoRub (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
15 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Poetry
12 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Publications
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, publications, The Road Less Travelled, Threads, Tipping Sheep (the right way), UK poet, Uk poetry, Western Haiku, writing, Yorkshire poet
Click on any of the covers to take you to the link to purchase
or check out the publications tab for other options 🙂
12 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Poetry, Poetry readings / Events
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Arts, Literature, poetry, Sheffield, Sheffield Winter Garden, South Yorkshire, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet
Please feel free to come along to the event if you are in Sheffield. I will be reading some of my poetry towards the end of the day (2.45pm ish). So please come along and say hello! I have had a shower and I am wearing my lucky socks, so it should be a good day!!
This year Word Life and Now Then will be hosting the opening event of Off The Shelf Festival Of Words at the Winter Gardens. FREE ENTRY.Â
Featuring;
Open Mic as below.
There will be a handful of slots open to people who walk up on the day. First come, first served.
11.30– 12.15
Donna Jones
Julian Dobson
Jude Calvert-Toulmin
Dan Whitaker
James Giddings
Davy Charles
Ian Macgill
12.45-1.30
Imogen Cassels
Kieran Mathers
Vera Fibisian
Karl Riordan
Ben Dorey
Mark Doyle
Tim Plant
Liz Searle
2-2.45
Ian Macgill
Tony Goodwin
Addie Abbott
Kate Garrett
Gemma Perkins
Ben Taylor
Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Adele Geraghty
David Turner
Poetry Films.
We’ve been happy to have commissioned the making of almost 30 short films of Sheffield based poets reading their work. From last year’s project ’21 poets for Sheffield’ to this years ‘Distant Lands – The Steel Trail’, we’ll be playing the work of some of our local poets and a few other favourites as well. If you’d like to suggest some please post suggestions on the wall.
Writing Games
We’re going to be running an open running workshop throughout the day which people are encouraged to contribute too. From the collective story (write a line, pass it on) to more specific exercises, there will be space for you to pick up a pen and start writing.
Featured Guests.
We’re also going to be featuring a few of the leading poets from the local scene and a few from further afield.
Also if anyone would like to sell books/leave flyers for other projects there will be a table manned
English: Sheffield Winter Gardens, Sheffield, England. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
10 Thursday Oct 2013
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Newborn conker
Chestnut gleam
White top hat
Shines autumn sheen
Boys delight
To wait for fall
Victors conqueror
Conquests enthrall
Oh that shimmer
Lasts but a day
Before they harden
For battles play
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Conker 10.10.2012
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Worldly Winds 