Frances Macaulay Forde

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Vacuuming

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Sun, 12 Apr 2026

Vacuuming With every pull toward your body you expect obedience. Expect each tiny micron of dirt to be sucked up and away – captured. Tied neatly in...

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Three Cinquains

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

You Glow You glow with love for me. Accepting all I give, never questioning if I love. I don’t. T ears F all Tears fall like rivers of pain...

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Did you know?

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

This one's from my 1968 Notebook - actually written in 1970. I was 20 and into Astrology. Did you know? Did you know that Cancer was compatible with...

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Doors Closing

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

An old one - from Uni days (1999), before my Irish lover sent flowers and changed my life, forever. DOORS CLOSING How often has the door closed on...

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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!

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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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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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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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Congratulations!

Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

Congratulations on the cherries!

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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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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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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!