Frances Macaulay Forde

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I have 69 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 78637 times and 20 of my stories have been cherry picked.
20 of my 316 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 20 votes

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Sue Coughlan

lives on the Sunset Coast of Australia and writes for page, stage and screen.

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My Knight

In 2002, the man I loved 28 years before in Africa, found my name on the net. After running away to Oz, two beautiful children, a bitter divorce and...
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I Need You

I've got your gentle voice in my head I am finely tuned to you still all my senses hungry - insatiable starving for your loving words more of your...

'Epitaph for Gregory O'Donoghue'

When I posted this poem on another site, I was asked for some background. My answers to their questions provided a somewhat lengthy introduction -...
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Turning The Page

You were focussed on study so I waited peeking through the crack watched you turn a page rushed to kiss you quick. I twirled to leave let you get...
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The Boffin

bookshops are like lovers they numb in black & white then seduce you with colour titillate and tempt your soul until you finally let go find the...

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20 of my comments have received 20 Great Feedback votes

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Next year...

Posted on Fri, 26 Aug 2022

We explored the possibilities in Ireland for 14 months, came home and got married. Next year we will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary, Di_Hard. Thanks for reading. :-)

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Posted in My Knight

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Congratulations!

Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2022

Congratulations, Jennifer.

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Posted in Fly Like An Eagle

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Photograph

Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

...and I loved your words which take us on a seeminly visual journey but in fact are a study in your tactile personality.  This work perfectly wrapped up in feelings, like your previous 'Cages' perfectly wrapped up with the scent of smoke. Both...

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Cages

Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Such an interesting introspective of light and shade, good and evil, hot and cold, the threat of war, home as a prison, past and present, possessions which define us... I loved it.

Well-deserved cherries too - congratulations!

I...

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Posted in Cages

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I agree

Posted on Sat, 16 Apr 2022

I agree - wonderful words!  Congratulations on the well-deserved cherries too.

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Posted in Kernow Song

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Easy.

Posted on Mon, 03 Jan 2022

There's such an ease in your writing.  You make it look easy when I know it's not.  You cleverly wind your words into stories and reel us in.  :-) 

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Posted in Three Women at the Estuary

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So much information.

Posted on Sun, 17 Feb 2019

Wow - thank you for the mention of Clan MacAulay.  I am in the process of tracing my family tree so this gives me (very possibly) another ancient branch.  

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Posted in Descent from Kings - The Royal Clans

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Congratulations!

Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

Congratulations on the cherries!

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Posted in To Dream Of Swallows Is An Ill Omen

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Full of 'feels'

Posted on Tue, 08 Mar 2022

Thank you Jennifer, this is a wonderfully expressed experience, shared with us all.  Even the sense of freedom from the last line. My kind of poetry: many-layered, eliciting an instant but also measured response.  Congratulations on the cherries...

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Posted in Up On The Ridgeway

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Salient

Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022

A salient piece, Marandina.  Congratulations on the cherries. Wishing all safe passage to peace. 

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