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Bats
06 Saturday Jun 2026
Posted in Daily life, Nature
Category Archives: Nature
Hottest Day in May
24 Sunday May 2026
Posted in Humour, Nature, Worldly Winds
With temperatures hitting 28°C even the animals were cooling off in the water!
Tadpoles
27 Wednesday Apr 2022
Posted in Nature
Spring
13 Wednesday Apr 2022
Posted in Nature
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Slowly but surely little tadpoles are emerging!
Free Spirit
18 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in NaPoWriMo17, Nature, Poetry
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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm Free Spirit, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm poetry, loneliness, nature, poetry, Worldly Winds poetry
I am a free spirit –
I go where the North winds take me,
whilst the restless dried leaves tumble and fall,
the bitter breeze blows,
calling them.
I am in no man’s land –
free as the mountain streams,
following gravity’s pull to conditionality,
quietly seeping to the core,
deep down, calcified,
no one knows me,
no one owns me,
being a free spirit,
is lonely.
Free Spirit by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
2016
Picture Credit: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/296956169167530900/
Seagulls – Haiku
28 Tuesday Apr 2015
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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Haiku, napowrimo, poetry, Seagulls, UK poet, Uk poetry, Western Haiku, writing, Yorkshire poet
Circling seagulls soulfully
Singing sea shanties
Sorrowfully surf sea-shores
© Seagulls 05.09.2012
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Picture Credit:https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/408209153696784844/
steinwatercolors -Etsy
Homecoming
20 Monday Apr 2015
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Alex Carr-Malcolm Homecoming, Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Geese, Homecoming, migrating, napowrimo, nature, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet
The geese flew northward home,
as the rains came down and quenched the ground,
and the winds bemoaned a lullaby.
The trees bowed down their lofty tops,
and the sunburned leaves fandango farewell,
as the geese flew northward home.
The rivers rushed down to greet them,
and the curlews cried and cheered them on,
as the geese flew northward home.
Ticker tape leaves lay out a parade,
with a carpet of clouds to hasten their way,
as the geese flew northward home.
They squadroned a skein of formations,
and the currents caressed their wings,
The brown and black Peaks, to match their beaks,
as they flew northwards home.
© Alexandra Carr-Malcolm 2015
Picture credit:https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/460985711831792188/
Morning Glory
05 Sunday Apr 2015
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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alex Carr-Malcolm poetry, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo15, nature, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, writing, Yorkshire poet
sun is dawning
and a new day forming
I see the brightness in the sky
let me hope this morning glory
swiftly brings me to my lover’s side
© Morning Glory 05.04.15
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Photo Credit: Pinterest http://www.hear2heal.com/whats-the-story-fine-art-photograph-morning-glory-sindi-short-p-3606.html
Spring Garden
06 Sunday Apr 2014
whirligig washing line
purple pegs on parade
budding Bob blowing in the breeze
spring garden limes and greens
tilted table bows to the birds
solitary snail discarded
sparrows chirrup
regardless
Spring Garden 06.04.2014
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
(Budding Bob is our apple tree in the corner – so named by my son because you bob for apples!)
Trees
10 Monday Mar 2014
Matchmaker trees,
trunks of knobbly knees,
arthritic twigs,
that creak in the breeze.
A splutter of leaves,
yellowed nicotine trees,
the breath of a smoker,
lets out a wheeze.
We’re dying, they weep,
as autumn does creep,
within crispy veins,
as they lay down to sleep.
© Trees 28.09.2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Ash Tree in Fall (Photo credit: hz536n/George Thomas)
Worldly Winds 