Traces . Soft flakes Velvet fragility Magenta or slate . White fluff Ornament or backdrop Focus on life . Delicate petals, feathers Smaller than hands Traces of gold . Bird feet tapping A ritual of dance Towards the seed . The centre of life Written In magenta and white . ©By Andrea Connolly, March … More Traces
May Queen 19th May 2016 Oat bran sprinkled on pebbles Quagmired thoughts sink in Of lost earthen ware & time Sage starts blooming in the wind The bird house waits aground Blue-tits cling to wires & walls Stray seeds in Alice blue Where ringdoves roam Spread gently behind the sleepers … More May Queen
. THE JOURNEY . For Amna Kiran at the Opening of her Exhibition “Self-Reflection” On 8th of April 2016, Solas Gallery Ballinamore . The eyes see illuminated manuscripts The artist reflects on her own story Her skills born in the East Grown from ancestral strands in Lahore Birds took you West of Pakistan On wings of … More A Journey
Moon Song . Sea of Seals Strand of Shells Song of Love . ©By Andrea Connolly Bloodmoon over Balbriggan Beach 30th of September 2015
Summer´s last battle Insurrection of Fall Golden transparency Of blossoms & leaves Hang on . 7th of September 2015 . ©By Andrea Connolly #poetry #writing
. . SAILORS AT PORT Drogheda on Midsummer 2015 Like sentinels They stood On rigged sail´s ropes Watchful from above While swarms of White smoke flew by And dissipated before The blue canvas . We looked up As to bird´s nests in clouds Waiting for them to fly Longing to be swapped To their … More Tall Ships Drogheda Midsummer 2015
The Lure of the Sea There was this yearning deep inside as I grew up in the French tinted part of Germany, south west, in the valley of the Rhine. My eyes would follow the river barges with longing imagining all the way to where they reached the sea. We had beautiful forests and … More Five Photos, Five Days Challenge: Day One
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http://www.writing.ie/tell-your-own-story/making-waves-writing-my-first-novel-by-andrea-connolly/ Making Waves: Writing My First Novel by Andrea Connolly Article by Andrea Connolly ©. Posted in the Magazine (Tell Your Own Story: Writing & Me, Tell Your Own Story). Make Your Submission to Writing & Me To write was always an act of life for me. A conscious move towards the world of the … More Making Waves – Writing My First Novel ©By Andrea Connolly
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