Perth Words… exploring possibilities.

Driving through Midleton to visit Advanced Pitstop Tyre Services… my man challenged me to write a poem while I waited for them to change our tyres.

So I did.  This is exactly how I wrote it, in about 20 minutes, with minimal editing.  What do you think?

Illustration © TASWasteManagementReview

Smooth Skin

Off Old Cork road, turning into Midleton
stacks of life-saving re-treads have Buckley’s
chance of reliving their youth. Discarded tyres

lay stop-piled high; like Auschwitz bodies
deflated, black, aged-old wheel-rings have
reached the end and their final journey.

Unlined rubber circles, low profile cushions
await disposal; melting erasure – incineration.
Their job is complete - no longer needed.

The largest lay prepared, neatly size-stacked,
ready and resigned, proudly age un-marked
claiming their fair share of the dumping ground.

Smaller circles know their place, are thrown
haphazardly because they’ve lost their grip;
swallowed by take-over tyrants, larger than they are.

Tractor workhorses are content to rest, miles-tired,
worn out, knowing they don’t count because the speedy
don’t care – don’t notice how many lines are missing.

 

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003

#POEM:SmoothSkin   #FrancesMacaulayForde  #PoetryChallenge  #SketchingInIreland   #Poem  #CarTyres

"Art is the Spark" for poetry written to artworks by my daughter, Jessica McCallum
for her 'All The Pretty One's Are' Exhibition held in the foyer of our new 
State Theatre Centre, Perth City, 2011.

“Tease” by Jessica McCallum © 2011 ink & embroidery on silk, 280 x 400mm – unframed

TEASE Cinquain

In the 
caress of silk
the silent siren calls 
for you to attend to her tease.
Do you?

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2011


#ArtIsTheSpark #POEM:Tease #ARTIST:JessicaMcCallum 
#ArtExhibition  #AllThePrettyOnesAre #FrancesMacaulayForde  
#Poetry

I’ve just discovered GRANTA The Magazine for New Writing, via my local library who posted a message on Facebook.

And what a treat!

Rediscovering 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient,  Doris Lessing,  whose 1st novel ‘The Grass is Singing’ was published the year I was born (1950) and taking time to read her wonderful words.

#DorisLessing  #TheGrassIsSinging  #ZimbabweAuthor  #StoriesFromAfrica  #FavNovels  #Africa #FavAuthors

Painted on Silk by Jessica McCallum 2009.

ART is often the SPARK for my poems.  In this case one of my daughter’s “Raindrops” art pieces painted for her 2nd sold-out JM Exhibition held at the Subiaco Arts Centre in 2009.

Mirrored Mercury

Rain drops
like tears,
send ripples
through my heart.

Each sky sphere
holding an image,
a reminder of you.
Our love – found, lost.

Remembered raindrops
bounce on my red umbrella;

my romantic heart still
hoping with each splash
of mirrored mercury

a ripple will reach your pool, 
a wave of longing -
of love surrounding,
joining your heart to mine.


Frances Macaulay Forde © 2010

#ArtIsTheSpark   #ARTIST:JessicaMcCallum  #JMExhibition2009  #Poem:MirroredMercury  #FMFPoem  #FrancesMacaulayForde

Very happy to report “The Seed” a film I supported some time ago, has done extremely well for itself, winning all sorts of prestigious awards!

Thanks for the credit on your webpage and also on the video (Frances Coughlan), David although my contribution was small but heartfelt.

Well done and congratulations to all involved with the making of “The Seed”.

#MOVIE:TheSeed  #DavidGould  #WALocalFilm  #SupportLocalFilmakers

If you haven’t discovered Dervla McTeirnan and her amazing best-selling books yet – may I recommend that you do.  Although she only settled recently in my home town of Perth, she hasn’t forgotten her Irish roots.  As a lawyer she is well-versed in her subject matter and background research for writing thrillers.  And she does.  I couldn’t put The Ruin down and read it in one sitting!

Her debut (2018) novel The Ruin has already been optioned by  Hopscotch Films.  As The Scholar is the second of a series of three, I have no doubt it will follow suit.   And The Sisters has hit No 1 on Audible’s best selling list in the UK, US and Australia.

#DervlaMcTiernan  #TheRuin  #TheScholar  #TheSisters  #WAAuthor  #IrishWriting