18 Friday Jan 2013
Posted in Longing & Waiting, Loss, Love, Poetry, Waiting and Longing
Dare you stroll
down Memory Lane?
Can you step out
with me?
I will,
if you will.
Will you walk
into the unknown?
I will,
if you will.
Dare you take a leap
of faith?
I will,
if you will.
Would you fall,
head over heels?
I will,
if you will.
Say I love you?
I will,
will you?
Dare you!
© Dare You! 18.01.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
My Love (Photo credit: Jennuine Captures)
18 Friday Jan 2013
Posted in Deep Stuff!, Poetry
Tags
Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, enlightenment, ephemera, poetry, rain, rainbow, transcend, Victory, Weather
Rainbow flag transcendent,
commemorates the day,
sun emerges victor,
the rain is gone away.
© Ephemera 18.01.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
IMG_7268b_triple_rainbow (Photo credit: oaklandEarthGirl)
17 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in Daily life, Poetry
No money can her beauty buy,
enchanting all she touches,
virgin white and transient,
the hoar frost kiss the bushes.
Spider’s webs of crystal tears,
furry leaves of velvet feathers,
stalagmite grass revering skies,
leidenfrost cloaks of weather.
© Winter’s Hoar 17.01.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Hoar frost on a rose. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
17 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in Buddhism, Deep Stuff!, Poetry
Remember not
to forget
to remember
close your eyes
breathe in
breathe out
close your eyes
the silence brings
remembrance
not to forget
to remember
© Remember Remember 17.01.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
English: Kwan Yin – Chinese goddess of mercy & compassion Statue of Kwan Yin in the grounds of Greenway House (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
16 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted in Deep Stuff!, Poetry
Tags
Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, couplets, craft, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, poetry, poetry structure, sibilance, writing
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 doublets 16.01.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Illustration from “Vivilore: The Pathway to Mental and Physical Perfection” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
15 Tuesday Jan 2013
Posted in Poetry
Tags
Do not be the moth
Always be the flame
Burn bright, burn bright
© Burn Bright 15.01.2012
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
A flame from a burning candle (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
10 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in Daily life, Humour, Loss, Love, Poetry
I had a fish called Rainbow,
the ugliest you’ve seen,
he was almost transparent,
showing heart, and spine, and spleen.
He seemed to live forever,
a hoopla prize, most fair,
he grew quite big and chunky,
and swam without a care.
He wasn’t a rare beauty,
neither rainbow, nor a jewel,
but my little girl’s heart loved him,
he was strange, and bold, and cool!
He swam around in circles,
gliding through his castle scene,
and he didn’t seem to mind much,
when neglect turned his bowl green.
Then, one day, to my distraught cries,
and my childhood at an end,
I found him quite lopsided,
my poorly rainbow friend.
He’d lasted ‘til his teen years,
it was a sad old day,
when I said a few old holy words,
and flushed him clean away.
Goodbye! my quirky rainbow friend,
I loved you ‘til the last,
‘tis fondly I remember thee,
you remind me of my past.
© Rainbow Fin 10.01.2012
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
fish bowl (Photo credit: Dean McCoy Photography)
08 Tuesday Jan 2013
Posted in Anger, Deep Stuff!, Loss, Poetry
Tags
Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, bankers, depression, mining, poetry, political, politics, poverty, shame, steel works, strikes
Iconic charming history,
repeats the sad refrain,
as, once more, we get screwed over,
we sing along again;
the blues echo a doleful tune,
and strike the same discord,
man mines the depths of misery,
bank on, fools, gold reward!
We steel ourselves with loyalty,
patriotic to the ends,
whilst red skies scream solemnity,
we bend our plastic friends.
Ironic charnel history,
repeats the shame, refrain,
prepare to get screwed over,
as we sing along in vain.
© Striking the Blues 08.01.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Pit head silhouette (Photo credit: alastairb)
05 Saturday Jan 2013
Posted in Buddhism, Deep Stuff!, Poetry
Oh fragile temple
Oh temperate soul
Let me be silent
And master control
© Awakenings 05.01.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Lotus Bloom (Photo credit: Chris Hunkeler)
02 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted in Deep Stuff!, Longing & Waiting, Loss, Love, Poetry, Waiting and Longing
Tags
Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, heartbreak, longing, loss, love, memories, poetry
Cremate me in your
fires of passion,
burn my soul
indelibly,
memories will
a story fashion,
of how we
loved,
and used
to be.
© Eternal Flame 02.01.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Passion (Photo credit: -RejiK)
Worldly Winds 