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Play me…

Posted in Ireland, Love, Poetry, Romance, Sketching In Ireland, tagged , , , , , on December 27, 2014| 7 Comments »

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My handsome hubby and I are celebrating our anniversary today ~ 11 years since we finally said ‘I do’; almost 2 years after he found my name on the net;  28 years after first meeting in 1974.

Thank you for finding me again… I love you more now, than I ever did.

Play Me…

I am so hungry.

My lips crave the taste

of your skin ~ your lips.

My body wants to spend

days ~ years forever

wrapped in your strength,

safe and warm, held by

familiar arms, touched

by tender hands, played

by musical fingers ~ let

me be your piano!

Play me…

 

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003

 

@FrancesMForde  #FrancesMacForde  #Romance  #POEM:PlayMe   #Poems

#Poetry  #Love

 

 

 

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Art as the Spark: Orchid

Posted in Art as the Spark, Creative Connections, nature, Poetry, Romance, Writing, tagged , , , , on December 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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Jessica McCallum © 2010  ‘All the pretty ones are…’

Orchid

With a Naturists eye

Infinite care, such

considered placement

A fern fond here

A gum leaf there

 

Pink & yellow

Dried petals

Delicate veins

Like a wedding veil

Placed in the center

of our two-tiered cake

an orchid appears

A most exotic,

rare orchid

like me.

 

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2007

@FrancesMForde  #ARTIST:JessicaMcCallum #CreativeConnections  #ArtIsTheSpark   #Romance  #POEM:Orchid

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Poetry Postcard: Head Music

Posted in Love, nature, Poetry, Poetry Postcards, Writing, tagged , , , on December 17, 2014| 4 Comments »

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#FrancesMacaulayForde  #PoetryPostcards  #PP:HeadMusic  #Poetry

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Poetry Postcard: Cinquains

Posted in Love, nature, Poetry, Poetry Postcards, Romance, Writing, tagged , , , , on December 15, 2014| 4 Comments »

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#FrancesMacaulayForde  #PoetryPostcards  #PP:Love  #Poetry  #Cinquains

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Poetry Postcard: Shear Love

Posted in Love, nature, Poetry, Poetry Postcards, Romance, Writing, tagged , , , , , on December 14, 2014| 2 Comments »

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#FrancesMacaulayForde  #PoetryPostcards  #PP:ShearLove  #Poetry  #Love  #Romance

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Brolga Dance

Posted in COMMUNITY, Love, Poetry, Romance, Theatre, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Brolga Dance

Newly hitched we hit

pop-hot spots in Sydney.

Occasion marked: Us.

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Tickets to ‘The Lion King’

in old Capitol Theatre

took us back to Africa.

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Sticky Date at Doyles

added more weight

to our love waistlines…

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We watched the river,

Opera House teeming,

Coat-hanger tourists.

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Sky-high Telecom chats

revolving restaurant

views topped off trip

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before Aqua chatting,

large-finned silver

swimmers mesmerize.

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Guinness for St Paddy

raised to Shamrock Green.

Chinese gardens walk,

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Brolga dance to hotel

suite, (less public for

private celebrations).

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2011

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#FrancesMacaulayForde  #DoylesRestaurant  #SydneyHarbourBridge  #SydneyAqarium  #SydneyOperaHouse  #Sydney:ChineseGardens  #TelecomTower  #RevolvingRestaurant

Links:  Telecom Tower Restaurant    Doyles Restaurant   Chinese Gardens of Friendship    Harbour Bridge    Sydney Aquarium   Sydney Opera House

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Art as the Spark: Bohemia 2

Posted in Art as the Spark, Poetry, Writing, tagged , , on December 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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“Bohemia” by Jessica McCallum

 

Some artwork inspires more than one poem; I’ve already shared the poem published with this painting at my daughter Jessica McCallum‘s exhibition in 2011, but thought you might like to read another one of a few:

BOHEMIA

This is not a painted tapestry

display of exotic influences…

Every prick was welcomed!

Each permanent plunge

through tender tattooed skin

as hearts and flowers fruit and scab,

every coloured defiant stab of free

expression – indelible statements

individually signalling two fingers

smoking satisfaction swirling, up.

 

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2011

#FrancesMacaulayForde  #JessicaMcCallumARTIST  #POEM:Bohemia

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Poetry Postcards: Rain

Posted in nature, Poetry, Poetry Postcards, Writing, tagged , , , on December 11, 2014| 1 Comment »

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P.S. At the movies…

Posted in COMMUNITY, MOVIES, Poetry, Writing, tagged , , , on December 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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ABC TV : Margaret & David’s final show.

 

P.S. At the movies.

 

As Pomeranz and Stratton butted heads over popular films

we watched from our couches, seriously deciding what to view.

 

Twenty-eight years of sitting opposite each other – their visceral

affectations vomited in heat or calmly, quietly same-shoe spoken.

 

Their passion at performance, intimate knowledge of past glories

and informed responses to direction, scripts, casting, sound, et al,

 

meant there was no alternative for viewers but these two icons

of cinema.  Their reviews echoing a whole spectrum of audience

 

types on all genres, presented without ulterior motive or favour.

Concise, considered, eloquent and interested words entertained

 

as they informed. ‘We’re just reviewers’ doesn’t sum up influence

spread like ripples in a pond, viewed from above, once gone will

 

leave an empty space, impossible to fill by try-hard wannabees.

 

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2014 

#FrancesMacaulayForde  #ABC:AtTheMovies  #MargaretPomeranz  #DavidStratton #MovieReviews

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Sketching in Ireland

Posted in Love, Poetry, Romance, Sketching In Ireland, Writing, tagged , , , , on December 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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‘Sketching in Ireland’    FMF © 2003

Straight Up

enclose me in your walls

add bricks one on the other

until I am surrounded

don’t include a door

 

 Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003

 

@FrancesMForde  #POEM:StraightUp  #SketchingInIreland #Poems  #Relationships

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