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Counting Magpies

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Poetry, Publications

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Counting Magpies, Counting Magpies Alex, Counting Magpies Poetry, heartbreak, longing, loss, poetry, superstition, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

Coming soon…….

My second anthology will be released on Kindle very soon 🙂

Counting Magpies

counting magpies

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Eight Lilies

28 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Death, Heartbreak, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, grief, longing, loss, Mother, mourning, Mum, poetry, Yorkshire poet

It has been ten years since the death of my mother. This is one of my favourite poems dedicated to her. Not a day goes by when she isn’t missed and mourned.

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Eight Lilies of remembrance,

stand to mark the way.

Eight lilies, one for each of you,

respect and honour the day;

to show that I still think of you,

though that day is done,

each lily marks a bygone past,

from a lifetime that is gone.

 

I smell their sweet thick lily scent,

It makes me think of you;

with fondest memories in my heart,

and tears that are now few.

No longer living in my world,

It is as though you’re dead.

The lilies are memorial,

to words still left unsaid.

 

© Eight Lilies 2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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Scrabble

09 Tuesday Jun 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, heartbreak, longing, loss, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

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shattered life
thrown down in letters
spelled disaster

 

©Scrabble 01.06.2015

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Picture Credit:https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/456271005970022686/

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Memory Lane

21 Tuesday Apr 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Heartbreak, Love, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, cafe bars, deep purple haze, electric guitars, heartbreak, longing, love, memories, memory, napowrimo, Passages Dagda Publishing, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

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electric guitars

trysts in cafe bars

balmy summer days

memory’s a deep purple haze

thirty years of I love you’s

Pearl teardrops soak through

LP’s and RP’s

Creme Eggs and Smarties

he’s not you

that much is true

and I’m not her

old flames

inflamed

 

© Memory Lane 14.11.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Picture Credit: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/240238961343388899/

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Melpomene

15 Wednesday Apr 2015

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

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, heartbreak, longing, loss, Melpomene, napowrimo, poetry, sorrow, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

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I’ve laid down my life,

for you – I’ve waited;

Occupying, mystifying,

paths crossed, stars fated.

You are the moon,

and I the clown,

with red nose and tears,

Pierrot Cinderella gown,

grind my glass slipper

into the ground.

Who us the muse,

in this tragedy?

Melpomene masks,

the parody.

 

© Melpomene 02.03.2013

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Picture Credit: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/300544975109623212/

Pinterest: Gabrielle Booth

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Tears

04 Saturday Apr 2015

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

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, grief, heartbreak, longing, loss, love, poetry, tears, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

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A love like ours

could have illuminated

eternal night skies.

 

Instead our tears

light up the firmament

and the stars burn our souls.

 

© Tears 04.04.15

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Photo Credit: Pinterest –

Raymond Philippe https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/552816922982643784/

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Night Star

03 Friday Apr 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Loss, Love, Muse, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm poetry, death, loneliness, longing, love

Starry Night Van Gogh

When you left,

you took us all with you,

the old, the young,

the Saints and the Sinners.

A gaping chasm,

left in your wake.

Three decades of grief,

the tides of loss,

your fall from grace,

as you plummeted us all,

into oblivion.

Yet – you shine brighter,

and more fierce,

than any star,

I’ve ever seen.

 

© Night Star

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm 03.04.15

Picture credit: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/562527809678726617/

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Nine Years

28 Saturday Jun 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Death, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, death, grief, heartbreak, longing, loss, Mother, Mum, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

And as she lay dying

I sat by the church,

the choir were singing

for peace on this earth.

 

They called to their God

in heaven above,

they prayed for redemption

forgiveness and love.

 

The grave yard was ancient

full of sinners and saints,

lichens and moss

made the epitaphs feint.

 

God promised you heaven

where the angels dwell,

and I am alone now

you’ve left me in hell.

 

© Nine Years 28.06.2014

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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Nobody’s Girl

20 Sunday Apr 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Muse, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, longing, loss, napowrimo, Nobody's Girl, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

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and she sits waiting

watching the world

and she sits waiting

nobody’s girl

 

passers-by pass her by

crying inside

and she sits waiting

unnoticed

 

onlookers look on

dying inside

and she sits waiting

overlooked

 

Sight seers don’t see her

as she looks over

and she sits waiting

unseen

 

and she sits waiting

watching the world

and she sits waiting

nobody’s girl

 

© Nobody’s Girl 20.04.14

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Photo Credit – unknown – if this is your picture and you would like it removed or credit attributing please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

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Silhouettes and Soliloquies

23 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Deep Stuff!, Heartbreak, Longing & Waiting, Loss, Poetry, Waiting and Longing

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, death, dreams, grief, heartbreak, longing, loss, memories, pain, poetry, sorrow, soul, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet

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I’m hiding in the shadows,

it’s where I long to be,

drifting into dreamscapes,

singing sad soliloquies.

 

I have my other life, you see?

I’ve lived it since a child;

It’s not quite real – that I know,

but I’ve lived it for a while.

 

The daytime is the hardest,

a cruel life chased by death;

but night time is so easy,

sleep brings immortal breath.

 

What’s real, what’s not?

Well who’s to say?

Each one its own delusion,

by night the moon –

by day the sun –

each life is an illusion.

 

Shadows play upon my mind,

ghosts welcome setting sun;

silhouettes of dreams gone by

half-lives, loves-lived, undone.

 

So let me go, and leave me be,

to live each night anew.

I’ll sing my sweet soliloquies,

while dreams bring me to you.

 

 

© Silhouettes and Soliloquies 2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

The Eerie Cold (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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