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New Poem Published
Bottles I have a collection of precious bottlesof various sizeseach holds a memory of happy times. They sit behind glass hiding their huesholding a secretto their age, contents. Larger engraved ones, a forefinger highwere the first received,once filledwith precious scents, gifted long ago. The smallest– his last settles in my handmatchingthe curl of my fingernail,…
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What does it mean to be a kid at heart? To be full of curiosity,kindness and adventurous
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The Vase
I used to fill my tall vase with six sunflowers reming the of southern warmth blue skies and light Waters si warm and clean Where life was easy as swimming with you beside me but now that vase holds pinecones doest reflect light or sparkle with the warm I feet my southern skin yearns for…
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The Oldest Thing I own and still use daily is a nutcracker owned by my mother. It’s good for opening bottles and jars that are tightly screwed when new and difficult to open
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
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What do you do to be involved in the community? I am a poet and member of Blaze (Mid Cheshire) Stanz Also The Vale Royal Writers Group, Second Light Women’s Poetry, Ormond poetry Group and the W.I.
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POEM Published in Reach Poetry 2023 Anthology Issue January 2024
Kettle My blue kettle has stood for years on the kitchen counter.Boiled innumerably over years:cups of tea, coffee, hot water for cooking, or a winter’s bed bottle;gently doing its job – unacknowledged! This morning as I lift it to fill it with water for a coffeea shaft of sun glitters over its old surface. I…
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Poems Published In the March issue of the BeZine Sustainability
SEIZING THE FUTUREDavenham DelightsRiver Power Read on the Blog & Facebook @Carolyn O’Connell – Poetry
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PUBLISHED on Vale Royal Writers Blog
From London to Cheshire My Journey & Goals for 2023 By Carolyn O’Connell (March 2023) I joined the VRWG after I moved from London in 2017, I was looking for a writing group and was welcomed by Bob and Marian, Liz and particularly Tonia (sadly missed by all) who introduced and came with me to several…
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New Poem Published
I have a New Poem Published in December’s issue of Reach Poetry Indigo Dreams its “December’s Last Canvass December’s Last Canvass The sky was an arc of grey splashed by blue:pink stems firing upward along this canvass,painted remnants of a low sun now set;prefiguring night that was falling above the hedges, green fields, skeleton treesthat…
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