Frances Macaulay Forde
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I have 68 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 61316 times
and 19 of my stories have been cherry picked.
19 of my 314 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 19 votes
Sue Coughlan
lives on the Sunset Coast of Australia and writes for page, stage and screen.
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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...
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'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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Umbrella Sea
I look down umbrella sea snaking between shiny metal towers separate still me a strong wind searches for red among the grey pushing risk frisking...
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Congratulations!
Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2022
Congratulations, Jennifer.
Read full commentPosted in Fly Like An Eagle
I agree
Posted on Sat, 16 Apr 2022
I agree - wonderful words! Congratulations on the well-deserved cherries too.
Read full commentPosted in Kernow Song
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. :-)
Read full commentPosted in Three Women at the Estuary
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.
Read full commentPosted in Descent from Kings - The Royal Clans
Congratulations!
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
Congratulations on the cherries!
Read full commentPosted in To Dream Of Swallows Is An Ill Omen
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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Salient
Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022
A salient piece, Marandina. Congratulations on the cherries. Wishing all safe passage to peace.
Read full commentPosted in Het Bonhe
The Easy Option...
Posted on Sun, 06 Mar 2022
...is not always 'easy'. Your clever words made me smile, Luigi. Thank you and congratulations.
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Thought provoking.
Posted on Mon, 14 Mar 2022
Inspiring, depressing, thoughtful and worrying. Thank you for such an inciteful and interesting view of the world, Jane. I often feel alien. Congratuations on the golden cherries!
Read full commentPosted in This Cannot Be Our Home
Her Troubles
Posted on Fri, 04 Feb 2022
A very well-drawn character, dragging herself from one day to the next, through the thumping rythum of her life. Clever. Sympathetic. Lots of Irish references made this piece very green. Thank you. Stay well.
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