Frances Macaulay Forde

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Rain

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 27 Aug 2026

TANKA: Rain Heavy metal skies. Cloud’s pregnant waiting time. Releasing their juice, shards of silver arrows fall. Running rivers of relief. Frances...

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The Paper Wasp

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 20 Aug 2026

(Image link: https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/images/Some_image.width-1200.e8... ) The Paper Wasp (2006) One morning a good ten years ago, I...

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Silent Suburb

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 20 Aug 2026

(My own photo - just snapped through the window. ) Silent Suburb It’s a usual Thursday morning in the Northern suburbs, I know because if I pay...

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Left Field

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Mon, 17 Aug 2026

Left Field ————- Lined up like the Waterford cows, metal bodies glitter in an Irish field. Black rubber circles squelching acres of reconstituted...

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Congratulations!

Posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2026

Golden cherries well-deserved for your valuable points raised.

Thank you!

Posted in Save your Water for The Devil

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Congratulations on the Cherries!

Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2026

Well deserved!

Posted in Torment

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Poetry sessions.

Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2026

G'day Insert. No, I said farewell to PoetsCorner@PagesCafe in October 2008 because I needed to focus on paid projects. As I held the rights to 2 novels while adapting a feature script and also editing a...

Posted in Poetry Postcards: Pages Cafe

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Cherries!

Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2026

Well done on the Cherries.

My favourite stanza is the last. Stay strong, Jennifer.

"Instead of trying to retrace reverie,

I'm caught between days and nights

of torment – with quiet breaks like...

Posted in Torment

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Thank you.

Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2026

Thanks for reading and commenting on my sketch. I couldn't use the original photo of a Western Rosella which inspired this poem, so going through my files, this was the best representation... All my paintings of parrots are the wrong colours so...

Posted in Waiting to Score

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Beautiful!

Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2026

Beautiful words - lovely to read your poetry again, HarryC.

Congratulations on the Golden Cherries too - very well deserved!

Hope you're keeping well,

Frances.

Posted in Blue

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Congratulations!

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2026

Red and Golden Cherries, Poem of the Week and now Poem of the Month! Huge congratulations, so well-deserved.

I loved the subtlety and emotion behind every word. Each so carefully controlled and structured to give a final heart-wrenching...

Posted in After You'd Gone

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Congratulations!

Posted on Thu, 24 Aug 2023

Please do, 'write about a few more...' Not only did I like this I absolutely loved it. Having lived in Midleton, near Cork, for 14 months I was so inspired by and met a few too! Absolutely lovely characters, completely charming and irrisistable...

Posted in Nellie the Devilment

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Wow!

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2026

I can relate to this... have had similar feelings and written them down to explain.

The last couple of lines so poignant.

Thank you, Angusfolklore

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Congratulations.

Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026

Mum. You'll always miss her - never get over her leaving, nor should you! I believe she will always be in your heart, in your memories and every time you speak her name, she'll be right there, listening. Just as you've said in this is a...