‘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
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Posts Tagged ‘romance’
Sketching in Ireland
Posted in Love, Poetry, Romance, Sketching In Ireland, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, POEM:StraightUp, poetry, romance, SketchingInIreland on December 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Hello…Will you… I do.
Posted in Africa, COMMUNITY, Ireland, Love, Romance, Writing, tagged Cork, Frances Macaulay Forde, HIllarysBoatHarbour, Kitwe, Love, Midleton, romance, Zambia on December 2, 2014| 6 Comments »
There’s this cute idea making the rounds on Instagram :
1. Where you met your partner,
2. Where they proposed
3. Where you said “I do”.
I’d love to participate but I don’t have a smart phone or Instagram account.
However, I will participate, as much as I can.
1. 1973 Kitwe, Zambia at an audition for a keyboard player with the band ‘Paper Lace’.
2. In his town house, St Mary’s Road, Midleton, Ireland, June 2003.
3. Hillarys Boat Harbour, Western Australia, November 2003.
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1968 Notebook: ‘unknown’
Posted in 1968 Notebook, Poetry, Romance, Writing, tagged 1968Notebook, FrancesMacaulayForde, poetry, romance on December 1, 2014| 2 Comments »
In the
silhouette
of your
beauty,
your dreams
be
hidden,
Why?
Maybe
your dreams,
are
mine!
(Written in the back of my 1968 notebook ~ author ‘unknown’.)
@FrancesMForde #1968Notebook #Romance #Poetry
Poetry Postcards: Turning The Page
Posted in Ireland, Love, Poetry, Poetry Postcards, Romance, Sketching In Ireland, Wordless Wednesday, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, Love, poetry, PoetryPostcards, PP:TurningThePage, romance on November 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Poetry Postcards: Committed Skin
Posted in Love, nature, Poetry, Poetry Postcards, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, Love, PoetryPostcards, PP:CommittedSkin, romance on November 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Poetry Postcard: Eight Pots
Posted in Art as the Spark, Love, nature, Poetry, Poetry Postcards, Romance, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, Hibiscus, POEM:EightPots, poetry, romance on November 19, 2014| 1 Comment »
Our Hibiscus is flowering again – don’t know how many times a year it does, but it does with no attention from me. Except to snip some of her beautiful blooms so I can paint them…
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Instinct
Posted in Books, Hidden Capacity, Love, Poetry, Romance, Writers, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, HiddenCapacity, LovePoems, poems, romance on November 6, 2014| 4 Comments »
There’s no place for love at this time in my life.
I envy those who achieve the balance of need.
Opportunities ignored in the interest of safe-ness,
flying toward my ability’s determined focus.
Children gone in their own living-dreams direction,
their lessons learnt and heeded. My job’s complete.
Is this my way of avoiding the ‘empty nest’ syndrome;
gathering materials for comfort as I settle to old age?
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003
(1st Pub. “Hidden Capacity ~ a poet’s journey”, Ireland 2003)
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Bus Trip
Posted in Books, Hidden Capacity, Love, Poetry, Writers, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, HiddenCapacity, LovePoems, romance on November 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Love is like taking a bus…
In my car, the seat belt secures,
holding steady against the bumps and sways,
harnessing against the change in equilibrium,
but I am on a bus – The Love Bus.
The corners are killers – no seat belt – no you!
I need you to steady my seat – hold my body still,
temper my impetuous reactions to change.
I need to be wrapped in bonds that secure,
sort out my floundering in an unfamiliar sea.
When the waves crash – you are prepared.
We are standing, weight evenly balanced,
both feet planted firmly in our future.
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003
(1st Pub. “Hidden Capacity ~ a poet’s journey”, Ireland 2003)
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Romance
Posted in Ireland, Love, Poetry, Romance, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, PoemsWrittenInIreland, poetry, romance on November 3, 2014| 1 Comment »
Bead-work is intimate,
novel-like in the detail
– the chase a known pattern.
Crochet hooks the reader,
burrows through cotton/wool.
Knitting thrusts and parries.
Everything to do with
the size of the needle
and how it’s manipulated.
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003
#FrancesMacaulayForde #PoemsWrittenInIreland #Romance #Poetry
With a smile..
Posted in Books, Hidden Capacity, Poetry, Writers, Writing, tagged FrancesMacaulayForde, HiddenCapacity, LovePoems, romance on November 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
You just want to see
how I eat ice creams.
Do I take bites,
or enclose the cream?
Covering the teeth,
protecting
the delicate surface.
Sliding softly
over the peak,
held delicately
in my hand,
fingers wrapped,
guiding.
I lick around
in long strokes
working my way
to the tip, then
short tasting licks.
Quick flicks
that tantalize.
Swirl my tongue
round and round.
Over the top
occasionally.
Taking the whole,
fitting perfectly,
smoothed by
the shape of my mouth.
A little nip before release
and I swallow the cream
with a smile…
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2003
(1st Pub. “Hidden Capacity ~ a poet’s journey”, Ireland 2003)
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