Frances Macaulay Forde

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I have 95 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 144741 times and 27 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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My stories

Tall Tree Tanka

Unfortunately too many enjoy trying to fell tall trees when they should be hugged. We need to learn to look up. Frances Macaulay Forde © 2014

RECYCLED

Sociable weaver birds gather Kalahari sticks, grass, cotton to construct home trees for hundreds. Out-dated rest points built to carry distance wires...
Cherry

Red Umbrella

I see red when you raise spikes along the metal shaft, sharply snap it open, stretching the bright silk above your head I see red a mobile patio –...

Coffee Haiku

One of my poetry postcards written and printed while I was the poet in residence at Burns Beach Cafe 2013.
Cherry

Hooked

Haiku written 15th May 2013 while enjoying coffee time at Burns Beach Cafe as the 'resident poet'.

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