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Boxing Day…

Posted in Christmas, COMMUNITY, Favorite Writers, Love, Poetry, Writers, tagged @FrancesMForde, AlexanderMcCallSmith, FavouriteWriters, FrancesMacaulayForde, FrancesMacForde, LovePoem, MerryChristmas, poetry on December 25, 2015| 5 Comments »

20th March 2014 ~ AMcCS entertained us at UWA, in Perth.

Alexander McCall Smith posted a note on Facebook to his fans today and I’d like to quote the last bit:

QUOTE: May I conclude with lines from a poem I wrote some time ago. I have included it in a small pamphlet I published this Christmas, “The Heart of Each of Us”. It talks about love and about Agape, that form of selfless love of others that is so strong and so important. Here are the lines:

“What we lose, we think we lose forever,
But we are wrong about this: think of love –
Love is lost, we think it gone,
But it returns, often when least expected,
Forgives us our lack of attention, our failure of faith,
Our cold indifference; forgives us all this, and more;
Returns and says, “I was always there”.
Love, agape, whispers: “Merely remember me,
Don’t think I’ve gone away forever;
I am still here. With you. My power undimmed,
See, I am here.”

Happy Christmas!

Alexander McCall Smith : UNQUOTE

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More than one distraction…

Posted in Animals, Art as the Spark, Favorite Writers, Jessica MCallum, Love, Other blogs, Poetry, SoopsSofties, Toys, Writers, Writing, tagged ArtIsTheSpark, ArtisticFriends, CleverPeople, ETSY:JessMcCallum, ETSY:SoopsSofties, FrancesMacaulayForde, HandmadeClowns, Inspiration, MunsterLitCentre, NewGrandie:BODHI, PatrickCotter, POEM:Dating, POEM:SplendidBlue, poetry on December 6, 2015| 7 Comments »

Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, I’ve been making things for my gorgeous new-born grandson Bodhi ~ my clever daughter Jessica McCallum‘s latest creation.

However, today my muse smiled as I was reading updates on Facebook and 2 photos inspired me.

A friend in Cork, Patrick Cotter posted a colourful picture of his socks; “These single socks seem to think I have nothing better to do than run a dating agency for them.” and I couldn’t help myself:

Dating

A colourful

individual;

a well-heeled

single, looking

for a match,

with similar need.

And another artistic friend on Facebook, Aaron Pocock posted a photo of “2-3 watercolours from the last couple of days” of these beautiful Australian birds :

Splendid Blue

In breeding plumage

his world knows no guns,

only the garden sprays

killing his insect food.

Still, he flits and flirts,

happy in his life work.

Seeking shades of brown

and grey among the twigs.

There, a most superb mate

waits, quietly seed-feeding

to proliferate their kind.

A species not in danger – yet.

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Film, Art & Poetry.

Posted in Art, Books, Film Friends, Guest Poem, Ireland, Love, Other blogs, Poetry, Romance, Sounds, Video Poems, Writers, Writing, tagged @FrancesMForde, ColinFarrell, ColoringBook, CreativeHaven, FantasyArt, FilmArtPoetry, FrancesMacaulayForde, FranesMacForde, poetry, PoetryReading, ShortFilm, TropfestCancelled, TropfestShortFilm, WilliamButlerYeats on November 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Last year's Tropfest in Centennial Park.

Tropfest cancelled after huge hole in funding… Perth’s Film & TV Institute in the State Cultural Centre will show local films made for this year’s cancelled event.

Creative Haven Fantasy Designs Coloring Book

If you’re into elves and fantasy: Creative Haven Fantasy Designs Coloring Book by a local artist, Aaron Pocock.

And I just loved this, Colin Farrell reading William Butler Yeats.

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Silver Spun Sand

Posted in ABC Tales, Guest Poem, Love, Other blogs, Poetry, tagged @FrancesMForde, ABCTales, FrancesMacForde, FrancesMF, Poem, SilverSpunSand on October 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The Borrowers (Poetry Monthly)

An expedition, all the way to the top –

me, and my two year old; a picnic

by a covey of chattering pines…

Planted an oak, to stake our claim,

the day we moved in; the hill – ours,

hers and mine, plus a hundred acres of sky.

Dwarfed – our cottage, way below,

in the peach-tree dappled shade,

of a long-since tended orchard.

Bees – strum-hum in the clover,

and a skylark sings the many faces

of god and she sees dragons in the clouds.

‘Look!’ I say. ‘There’s a ‘Meadow Brown’ –

a ‘Painted Lady’, but now – far too busy,

playing with her toys.

Tea-time – the wind is chill, so pick up

her bat and ball – her teddy; a book

I brought to read. Fat chance of that!

‘Couldn’t we stay?’ she whines, as I lift her

to my hip. Grubby hands reach out –

reluctant to leave…

grabs a tuft of budding vetch; purple

and white. Gleefully, she brings it home –

as tiny flowers, shyly open

but the butterflies, the sun, the smell

of fresh-shorn grass, too much for us

to carry, and indeed, not ours to take.

Only on loan…the hill – the whole

of this. The best I can do, is to promise

we’ll come again…maybe tomorrow,

but then…only if we give back,

what we borrow.

Silver Spun Sand on ABC Tales

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Christmas is coming!

Posted in Books, Children's stories, Christmas, COMMUNITY, Crafts, Love, Poetry, Rail Tales, Romance, Soops Softies, Toys, tagged @FrancesMForde, BOOK:Santa'sSwim, BooksForSale, Christmas, ChristmasStory, ETSY:FMF, ETSY:SoopsSofties, FrancesETSY, FrancesMacaulayForde, FrancesMacForde, FrancesMF, HandmadeGifts, SantaBook, SantaStory, SoftToys, SoopsSofties, UniqueGifts on October 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Well loyal readers, I’ve taken the plunge and opened up not one, but two ETSY shops; one to sell my BOOKS and one for my much loved SOFT TOYS.

I’m busy working on a little SOFTIE Elf and a SOFTIE Santa to make available in time for the holidays.

So if you’d like something made for someone special, please make sure you order before 15th November to get your purchases in time for Christmas.

I’ve updated my Books for Sale and offer two poetry chapbooks and a children’s story:

& created a new page full of adorable Softies – unique gifts for special people: Soft Toys for Sale.

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Happy day…

Posted in Love, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged Artist: Jessica McCallum on October 15, 2015| 1 Comment »

Happy, Happy Birthday to my Darling, soon-to-be-mum Daughter!

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I’m so proud of everything you are and everything you do – always have been.

You grow more beautiful every hour and I know, you’ll teach your son to be a gentle, strong and loving man.

So many wonderful years ahead of you, Sweetie.

#ARTIST:JessicaMcCallum

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The Light on the Stairs

Posted in Favorite Writers, Guest Poem, Love, Other blogs, Poetry, tagged @FrancesMForde, ABCTales, FavouriteWriters, FrancesMacForde, GuestPoem, Love, OtherBlogs, Poem, SilverSpunSand on September 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

A beautiful poem by Silver Spun Sand, otherwise known as Tina, on ABC Tales.

http://www.abctales.com/story/silver-spun-sand/light-stairs#comment-652487

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Senses

Posted in Hidden Capacity, Ireland, Love, Poetry, Romance, Sketching In Ireland, Sound, Sounds, Writing, tagged @FrancesMForde, BOOK:ExploringPossibilities, BOOK:HiddenCapacity, BOOK:SketchingInIreland, ExploringPossibilities, FrancesMacForde, HiddenCapacity, Ireland, Love, Poem, POEM:Senses, poetry, romance, Sensory, Sight, SketchingInIreland, Smells, Sound, Touch, WAWriter, writer, writing on September 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Senses

hear

tender words
questions answers
your current reality

see

furtive glance
visual dance
clever hands and fingers

touch

tentative press
to shy flesh
still clothed in other loves

smell

breathe you in
where’ve you been
through all my loves and life

From my book “Hidden Capacity ~ a poet’s journey” published in Cork, Ireland, 2003

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