10 Monday Mar 2014
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.
© Trees 28.09.2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Ash Tree in Fall (Photo credit: hz536n/George Thomas)
08 Saturday Mar 2014
Posted in Deep Stuff!, Poetry
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, dark, gothic, love, love poem, poetry, Subha, UK poet, Uk poetry, unlove poem, Yorkshire poet
You said you loved me from the start,
and in your hands you’d hold my heart.
So I will write a hundred lines,
and I will write a hundred times;
I must not be too literal.
I must not be too literal.
I must not be too literal…
So when you say you love my hair –
adore the sparkle in my eye,
I have no reason to believe you lie.
So just for you,
what I will do,
I shall make a gift to you.
My lustrous hair I will cut,
and Subha like my eye will pluck,
and in a box with my beating heart,
tied with a ribbon and a bow,
to you, these symbols, I bestow.
© A Love Poem 08.03.2014
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
(photocredit – photo Pin)
23 Sunday Feb 2014
Posted 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?
© Thistledown 23.02.2014
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
07 Friday Feb 2014
Posted by Worldly Winds | Filed under Publications
01 Saturday Feb 2014
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm poet, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm poetry, Dagda Publishing, Passages anthology, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet
New publication from Dagda Publishing
I have some of my poetry included in this anthology. Some of the money from the sale goes to two worthy charities – Scope, and Shelter.
Please consider buying a copy to support charity and to read some fabulous poetry too!!
Click on the book below to take you to the Amazon shop 🙂 Go on… treat yourself 😀
28 Tuesday Jan 2014
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, dog, humour, love, pets, poetry, puppy, Spike, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet
Small and scruffy,
brown and woofy,
Spikey Spike dog,
is my puppy.
Scared of cats,
sniffs the breeze,
barks the birds,
to the trees.
Sits and begs,
for a treat,
always savoury,
never sweet.
Longs for noodles,
shivers for cheese,
dog snot windows,
covered in sneeze.
Paws all a twitch,
Whoops delight,
dreams of walkies,
in the night.
© Spike 28.01.2014
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
18 Saturday Jan 2014
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, cooling towers, Cuthbert Bank, Homer, homing pigeon, pigeon, pigeon loft, pigeon racing, poetry, Sheffield, Sky Edge, squab, steel industry, Steelers, UK poet, Uk poetry, working class, Yorkshire, Yorkshire poet
Ringing the changes supplementing slave wages,
falling down sheds mark an era that’s dead.
Working class men with a tab and a pint,
punching the clock as their bird takes flight.
Banding and tagging the old boys are lagging,
as technology brings the changes to win.
Racing the homer with nothing odd to see,
squab, Ilion song as their ancestors fly free,
smoke grey flight over cooling tower industry,
rambling and racing as the voyageurs dance here.
Northern man’s soul – more than a fancier.
Loftier heights view the world of the skies edge,
new hope in full bloom dispels shadows of old gloom,
bygone Steelers nurturing tomorrow’s youth squeakers,
as they reach for the stars, in plumed aviation
Columbidae class reaches point liberation.
© Cuthbert Bank 18.01.2014
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
14 Tuesday Jan 2014
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, archetype, insanity, longing, loss, madness, moon, poet, poetry, Sea, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet
mercury moon madness
diurnal tide sadness
solitary soul cottage
penning poet’s pottage
quill warrior wordsmith
archetypal Queen or myth?
©Moonlight and Madness 14.01.2014
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Photo Credit – Member name Geralt – http://pixabay.com/en/tree-kahl-moon-human-group-66465/
26 Thursday Dec 2013
Posted in Poetry
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, bed sit, Christmas, Christmas pud, divorce, grief, lodger, longing, loss, memories, memory, pain, poetry, Satsuma, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet
I am the festive lodger,
pushed from pillar to post.
Always someone else’s Christmas,
fake smiles to a congenial host.
I’m as shafted as the fairy,
stuck on an artificial tree;
outsider looking inwards,
mourning my family.
I am the bedsit teen Queen,
as I celebrate alone,
Satsuma tears and Baileys cheers,
and Christmas pud for one.
I open up your present,
somewhere you sip Champagne,
a cheap acrylic jumper,
and a card with misspelled name.
Noddy screams, ‘it’s Christmas!’
Sinatra croons away,
a miracle on 34th,
saved by Jonah’s cavalry.
I am your inconvenience,
you left when I was twelve,
destined to be a lodger,
condemned to festive hell.
© Satsuma Tears 11.12.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Christmas in the post-War United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
21 Saturday Dec 2013
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Bird, loner, poetry, Robin, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, solitary, sorrow, UK poet, Uk poetry, winter, Yorkshire poet
Robin in the green,
camouflaged unseen,
always stands alone,
and in the summer gone.
Through arctic ice and snow,
you’re always there on show,
pitched on a handle’s fork,
whilst the gardener works.
Despite the bitter chill,
your sight brings festive thrill,
iconic feathered friend,
who stays ‘til winters end.
Solitary bird,
your song remains unheard,
hiding in the green,
camouflaged, unseen.
© Inner Bird 21.12.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Photo Credit – Rotkehlchen bird/European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Suomi: Punarinta (Erithacus rubecula) Rheinland-Pfalzissa Saksassa. Français : Rouge-gorge familier (Erithacus rubecula) de Rhénanie-Palatinat, en Allemagne. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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