Pantun

15 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Heartbreak, Longing & Waiting, Loss, Love, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, heartbreak, loss, love, pantoum, pantun, parting, poetry, UK poet, winter, Yorkshire poet

The pantun is a traditional Malay form, a style of which was later adapted into French and then English as the pantoum. A pantun consists of rhymed quatrains (abab), with 8-12 syllables per line. The first two lines of each quatrain aren’t meant to have a formal, logical link to the second two lines, although the two halves of each quatrain are supposed to have an imaginative or imagistic connection.

I love you

but I let you go

I see through

the winter’s snow

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

15.04.2013

English: A snowdrop. Svenska: En snödroppe. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tipping Sheep (the right way)

14 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Poetry, Publications

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, anthology, poetry, Tipping Sheep, Tipping Sheep (the right way), UK poet, Yorkshire poet

It is finally here!!

Here is your opportunity to buy my first anthology – Tipping Sheep (the right way)

It is as ‘cheap as chips’ – well… as cheap as an Easter Egg – Go on treat yourself!!

(The Kindle version is still in progress – I will paste the links for the e-book version soon. Apologies for the delay in this – I am struggling with this one a bit!!)

‘Tipping Sheep (the right way)’ is the first anthology from new author Alexandra Carr-Malcolm. This is an intriguing compilation of poems, spanning over a ten year period of collected works. ‘Tipping Sheep’ will take you on a journey of highs and lows, exploring life, death, and many aspects of the human predicament. From the depths of ‘Bittersweet’ despair, to the humour of ‘Tipping Sheep’ and the musing of ‘Knitting Couplets’. Alex has a unique style of word play and cadence within the lines woven with wit and wisdom.

Click on the links below to take you to the page where you can purchase a copy 🙂

Wake Up Call

14 Sunday Apr 2013

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, awareness, Coffee, enlightenment, poetry, UK poet, Yorkshire poet

Today’s prompt. — The challenge – to write a persona poem — that is, a poem in the voice of a particular person who isn’t you. But choose a very particular kind of person. How about a poem in the voice of a superhero –

Well my choice is not that of a traditional superhero – but he is a superhero to me 🙂

See if you can guess who you think it may be 🙂

Wake up and smell the coffee!

Do nothing more

just smell

do not crave the coffee

do not drink the coffee

for the coffee cannot bring

everlasting peace

just release for a moment

and smell the coffee;

better still

just

wake up!

Oh – and please buy your fair trade coffee from an ethical outlet.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

English: A photo of a cup of coffee. Esperanto: Taso de kafo. Français : Photo d’une

tasse de caffé Español: Taza de café (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A Walk in the Park

13 Saturday Apr 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Daily life, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, April showers, municipal park, park, poetry, rain, rainbow, UK poet, walk, walking, Weather, Yorkshire poet

Winding grey path

municipal park,

misty rain mizzle

and clouds so dark.

People rush –

a random dog barks,

children still play,

oh what larks!

Raindrops thicken

to leave their mark,

but oh the sun!

invites the arc,

such April showers,

in a municipal park.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

English: Hillsborough Park, Hillsborough (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Let Me Be

12 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Anger, Longing & Waiting, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, anger, napowrimo, peace, poetry, privacy, quiet, solitude, UK poet, Yorkshire poet

Always watching – ever present,

never a moment of peace.

I long for the quiet,

the housewives dream;

no privacy, always eyes watching,

with a question or a request.

Leave me alone – let me be,

to read my books and write my words.

Let me listen to my music,

sad and soulful.

Let me sit in my garden

and watch the flowers

dance in the summer breeze.

Let me be -just for a while.

Stop watching, stop minding

and let me be.

Let me have my privacy.

Alone with my thought and memories.

Alone with my daydreams and visionaries.

Leave me in my solitude,

alone and in love with my dreams.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Solitude (Photo credit: Moyan_Brenn)

Calculating Cuddles

05 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Daily life, Humour, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, humour, love, mathematical equations, maths, napowrimo, poetry, UK poet, Yorkshire poet

Cuddling you,

is like a mathematical equation.

All elbows and angles,

spoonerisms and square brackets.

Just as a

parent he sis-

te-math-ically

square routes,

and exponentially

asterisks the mattress,

to become algebra

beyond my comprehension;

yet squared and integrated,

your obtuse, hypotenuse,

is surely a sine

that we can tessellate,

calculate and co-ordinate,

affirmative action,

and solve

an alternative angle,

between curves.

The geometry of

cardinal em-braces,

satisfies the

conjugated,

conjugal,

bed.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

The Grand Challenge Equations: San Diego Supercomputer Center (Photo credit: dullhunk)

Jaundiced Outlook

04 Thursday Apr 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Daily life, Death, Poetry, Political

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, celebrity, cynicism, ethics, integrity, morals, poetry, Uk poetry, worship, Yorkshire poet

Jaded mirror

reflecting death

of a conscience

rotting moral fibre

hair shirt decayed

and frayed

at the edges of society

jaundiced cynicism?

Constructive criticism

worships at the altar

of Celebrity.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Backpack Buddha

03 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Buddhism, Humour, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Buddha, Dharma, meditation, poetry, rupa, teaching, UK poet, Yorkshire poet

I have the Buddha on my back,

he’s quite an affable chap,

with a candle and a cloth,

and a purpose,

I set off…

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

New Anthology – Tipping Sheep (the right way)

29 Friday Mar 2013

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, anthology, poetry, Tipping Sheep, Tipping Sheep (the right way), UK poet, Yorkshire poet

It is finally here!!

Here is your opportunity to buy my first anthology – Tipping Sheep (the right way)

It is as ‘cheap as chips’ – well… as cheap as an Easter Egg – Go on treat yourself!!

(The Kindle version is still in progress – I will paste the links for the e-book version soon.)

Click on the links below to take you to the page where you can purchase a copy 🙂

Violets

27 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Death, Heartbreak, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, anger, bruises, death, domestic abuse, domestic violence, dreams, heartbreak, loss, marriage, poetry, UK poet, violets, Yorkshire poet

His pint glass half empty,

he’s nursing the blues;

always bitter, never mild,

flat cap and scuffed shoes.

She hoovers the house,

with stars in her hair,

sings to her muse,

thanks god he’s not there.

As he sits in the pub,

nursing his woes,

the footy is lost,

as the last whistle blows.

In her Primarni dress,

she scrubs hard the floor,

heart in her mouth,

dreads the key in the door.

He shuffles on home,

with her heart in his boots,

a belly of beer,

and a loin full of fruit.

She accepts his gift,

with the grace of a Queen,

a necklace of violets,

blacks, blues, and greens.

He broods and he dreams,

cultivating his grudge;

she’s stolen his youth,

this old, plain, drudge.

She lies stock-still

as the stars in the air.

He can no longer hurt,

what is no longer there.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

English: Violets by the coast path This year seems to have been particularly good for violets. This is part of a bank also scattered with lesser celandine. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Tag Archives: Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Pantun

Tipping Sheep (the right way)

Wake Up Call

A Walk in the Park

Let Me Be

Calculating Cuddles

Jaundiced Outlook

Backpack Buddha

New Anthology – Tipping Sheep (the right way)

Violets

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