Free Spirit

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm Free Spirit, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm poetry, loneliness, nature, poetry, Worldly Winds poetry

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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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Homecoming

20 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Worldly Winds in Awards, NaPoWriMo, Nature, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm Homecoming, Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Geese, Homecoming, migrating, napowrimo, nature, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

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.

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Morning Glory

05 Sunday Apr 2015

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo15, nature, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

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

Trees

10 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Nature, Poetry

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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)

Thistledown

23 Sunday Feb 2014

Posted by Worldly Winds in Deep Stuff!, Poetry

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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, climate change, earth, nature, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, Worldly Winds poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet

Step quietly, step quietly,

tread lighter still,

do not wake her,

with footprints shrill.

Step forth, step forth,

with thistledown toes,

footfall snow,

so nobody knows.

And when you are gone,

they will say,

and what of that girl,

did she pass this way?

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Murmuration

03 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Children's poetry, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, birds, dance, flight, flock, murmuration, nature, poetry, Starling, summer, UK poet, writing, Yorkshire poet

As I lay upon the grass

and gaze into the sky,

I see a flock of starlings

scoot and flit on by.

Starlings are a noisy bunch,

it’s true they cannot sing;

but they are, oh so graceful,

as they dance upon the wing.

As I lay upon the grass,

they swoop and glide on by.

I see a flock of starlings,

have a disco in the sky.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Starlings forming fascinating formations over Tøndermarsken, south-west Jutland, Denmark. Image from http://www.pdfnet.dk. Material is in Public Domain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Winter’s Hoar

17 Thursday Jan 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Daily life, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, frost, hoar frost, nature, poetry, spider's web, winter

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.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Hoar frost on a rose. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Summer

24 Thursday May 2012

Posted by Worldly Winds in Deep Stuff!, Loss, Poetry

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balm, lacewings, longing, loss, Maypole, nature, poetry, summer

Summer balm weighs heavy

my heart can hear the trill

of eloquent seasons intentions

to nature’s clock fulfil

But… O’er the nest is empty

remains there barren still

as lacewings dance the Maypole

to appease the Mother’s will

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

English: Summer field in Belgium (Hamois). The blue flower is Centaurea cyanus and the red one a Papaver rhoeas. Français : Un champ en été en Belgique (Hamois). La fleur bleue est un bleuet des champs et la rouge un coquelicot. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rainbow

22 Sunday Apr 2012

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

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beautiful, calm, colours, force, longing, nature, rainbow, storm

A Thing of Beauty

You are as strange as a rainbow,
so rarely seen.
You seem real enough,
your bright colours gleam.
I cannot hold you,
touch you,
reach you,
I cannot find your source;
the calm after my storm,
nature with a force.
You are not solid
nor a fanciful flight,
with no use or purpose,
just a beautiful sight.

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Self made rainbow, made in home garden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Tag Archives: nature

Free Spirit

Homecoming

Morning Glory

Trees

Thistledown

Murmuration

Winter’s Hoar

Summer

Rainbow

A Thing of Beauty

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