Posts Tagged ‘@FrancesMForde’

Blogging Around…

Posted in Writing, tagged 10WritingTips, @FrancesMForde, BloggingAround, EducatedHeart, FrancesMacaulayForde, FrancesMacForde, PoetryShops, UnderliveredLetters on November 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Highly specialized stores like Berl’s are proliferating in Dumbo, which lies beneath and between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.

The Curious Persistence of Poetry Shops.

Tips for writers

Ten Rules for Writing Fiction.

Hague letters

Undelivered letters shed light on 17th century society.

@FrancesMForde #FrancesMacForde #BloggingAround #UndeliveredLetters #EducatedHeart #PoetryShops #10TipsWriting

Read Full Post »

“Paying for Handmade – a gentle rant…”

Posted in Crafts, Other blogs, SoopsSofties, Toys, tagged @FrancesMForde, ArtistsProduce, CraftedWithLove, ETSY:SoopsSofties, ETSYShops, FrancesMacForde, Handmade, HandmadeTreasures, LizSmith, MillGirl, SoopsSofties on November 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »

“You do not have to buy anything we make! But when you do, you support an idea, a lifestyle, art. You encourage the production of objects that hold love, thought, care. You pass that joy onto the people who receive your gifts. You infuse your home with warmth and meaning when you hang that art on your wall or drink out of that hand-thrown mug. You perpetuate a world where objects exist that weren’t made by underpaid workers in third world countries to line the pockets of corporate CEOs. You encouraged an artist to sing her song and that enriches everyone.” Liz Smith is Mill Girl

Couldn’t have said it better myself – as an ETSY shop owner, Liz speaks to me…

@FrancesMForde #FrancesMacForde #ETSY:SoopsSofties #SoopsSofties #MillGirl #LizSmith #ETSYShops #Handmade #HandmadeTreasures #CraftedWithLove #ArtistsProduce

Read Full Post »

My Blog World – 5th Nov 2015

Posted in Children's stories, COMMUNITY, Illustrators, Other blogs, tagged @FrancesMForde, FormsOfRhythm, FrancesMacaulayForde, FrancesMacForde, JurassicBark, MurdochLayOff, MyBlogWorld, PictureTemplates on November 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Around my blog world today:

Jurassic bark: ancient Irish trees brought back to life

Free Picture Book Thumbnail Templates for Writers and Illustrators

The cover of National Geographic's August issue with the story on Pope Francis photographed by David Yoder

Rupert Murdoch Takes Over National Geographic, Then Lays Off Award-Winning Staff

FORMS OF RHYTHM

ROBERT C.L. CRAWFORD

@FrancesMForde #FrancesMacForde #FrancesMacaulayForde #JurassicBark #MurdochLayOff #PictureTemplates #MyBlogWorld #FormsOfRhythm

Read Full Post »

“All Washed Up”

Posted in Poetry, Readings of my Poems, Sounds, Writing, tagged @FrancesMForde, FrancesMacaForde, POEM:AllWashedUp, ReadingPoems, SoundCloud on October 25, 2015| 3 Comments »

I’d completely forgotten I had recorded quite a few poems on SoundCloud.

Here’s “All Washed Up” and I’m just looking to see what else I can make ‘public’.

@FrancesMForde @FrancesMacForde #SoundCloud #ReadingPoems #POEM:AllWashedUp

Read Full Post »

Reading my poems…

Posted in Poetry, Sounds, tagged @FrancesMForde, POEM:MyLifeAsASari, SoundCloud on October 23, 2015| 1 Comment »

I’d completely forgotten I had recorded quite a few poems on SoundCloud.

Here’s ‘My Life As a Sari’ and I’m just looking to see what else I can make ‘public’.

@FrancesMForde @FrancesMacForde #SoundCloud #ReadingPoems #POEM:MyLifeAsASari

Read Full Post »

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

@FrancesMForde @FrancesMacForde @francesMF #SilverSpunSand #ABCTales #Poem #TheBorrowers

Read Full Post »

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.

@FrancesMForde @FrancesMacForde @francesMF @SoopsSofties @FrancesMacaulayForde #FrancesETSY #ETSY:SoopsSofties #ETSY:FMF #SoftToys #Christmas #HandmadeGifts #UniqueGifts #BooksForSale #BOOK:Santa’sSwim #SantaBooks #SantaStory #ChristmasStory

Read Full Post »

A Screenwriter shares…

Posted in Favorite Writers, MOVIES, Screenwriting, Sound, tagged @FrancesMForde, AFITalk, AndrewBovell, BAFTA, FrancesMacForde, screenwriter, screenwriting on September 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Andrew Bovell shares what he learned in Hollywood and a whole lot more about screenwriting.

http://www.bafta.org/film/features/andrew-bovell-delivers-his-screenwriters-lecture

@FrancesMForde #FrancesMacForde #AndrewBovell #Screenwriter #Screenwriting #AFITalk #BAFTA

Read Full Post »

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

@FrancesMForde #FrancesMacForde #SilverSpunSand #ABCTales #Poem #FavWriters #OtherBlogs #Love

Read Full Post »

The Bluebird

Posted in Writing, tagged 1968Notebook, @FrancesMForde, AB:SleepingBeauty, AustralianBallet, Ballet, Beauty, FrancesMacaualayForde, FrancesMacForde, Poem, POEM:ThePrimaBallerina, poems, poetry, poetry in Western Australia, TheBluebird on September 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The Australian Ballet

Page Liked · September 20 ·

“The magic of the Bluebird … The Bluebird Pas de deux is one of the definitive moments of The Sleeping Beauty – there can be no Beauty without Bluebirds! Principal Artists Ako Kondo and Chengwu Guo dance this sensational pas de deux in The Sleeping Beauty!” Photography Kate Longley

Unlike · Comment · Share

Most Relevant

You and 1,443 others like this.
84 shares

Comments

Sue Forde Coughlan Always a favourite: of many favourites… may I share my ballet poem? The Prima Ballerina

She lives in a world of fairy tales,
all fantasy, happiness and woe.

Floating across the stage in tulle,
fine silk or organza.,

softly pirouettes through the mist,
or dies upon the snow.

This is the world of Ballet
of the Prima Ballerina.

So lithe and slim, so beautiful,
so graceful and serene.

On stage, supremely untouchable
yet so frail behind the scenes.

She’s the Queen of the ‘Corps de Ballet’,
the star with the golden feet,

dancing her way through ‘Petruska’,
‘Swan Lake’ or the ‘Nutcracker Suite’.

The audience, transfixed with awe,
watch silently, as in a dream,

for gripped by suspense and beauty
– such as they’ve never seen!

They observe the scenery so real,
the superbly made costumes,

but their eyes are fixed on the ‘Bluebird’
and all it’s fine blue plumes.

And when the ballet is done,
And encore after encore taken.

And baskets and bouquets
of flowers dispensed….

There’s a feeling of despair and longing
at the end of such unforgettable enchantment.

Frances Macaulay Forde © 1968

Like · Reply · 7 · September 20 at 10:30am