. The Water Castle Lough Oughter Boat Trip on Culture Night 2016 Via sheep gate & forest path Along South Western shore Life vested we board the boat On a mild September eve Exhilaration captures bodied mind The steadfast realm left behind For balance on the calm lake The vessel arrows towards the … More The Water Castle
. The beginning and the end Meet at the expanse Mirror images in feather blue It ends and starts wool white Seafoam gusts toss souls Body and mind unite for once Connect in wishes of crimson Cotton yearning for oranges . 30th of December 2015/ 4th of January 2016 – ©by Andrea Connolly
Green Sea Turtle Seamed By ripples A veil on her shell Strands fringed . 3rd November 2015 ©By Andrea Connolly
. . 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
Hoisting the Sails From all the adventures of my youth I only seem to miss the sailing trips in Holland. To be under canvas to one of those sandy shored islands was brilliant, a respite from everyday trials and oppressions. The images of ships and boats came with me, forming my growing, my dreams and … More Five Photos, Five Days Challenge: Day Five
With all your Strength Sometimes you have to give it all. With all your strength you have to pull the rope. Perchance others will help you, peradventure others depend on your bravery. Whichever way you see it, if you are the one hoisting the great sail, it takes you out there, where the great expanse … More Five Photos, Five Days Challenge: Day Four
Under the Azure Sky Now and then you would have a golden October. The winds would have a sunny break. Clouds would disappear and leave us with the pure azure overhead. I would lie on deck, looking upwards, a perspective of utmost joy, the mast the centre, the ropes fanning out of view before the … More Five Photos, Five Days Challenge: Day Three
Sailing This two-master was my home for a week in autumn, year after year, for more than a decade. The tides would command our rhythm of days. We had to sail together or we would never leave a port. Steering the ship was my delight, yet I enjoyed every handiwork with the sails, the rigging, … More Five Photos, Five Days Challenge: Day Two
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
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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