Ann Carr, Author at The Creative Exiles

On the Edge: ‘Ukraine’: Poem, Meaning and the Fight

January 19, 2023June 6, 2023 Ann Carr 504 Views 6 Comments

On the Edge: ‘Ukraine’ ‘Ukraine’, the country’s name itself, means ‘on the edge’ or ‘outskirts’, ‘borderlands’. ‘The term ‘Ukraina’

Free Verse Poetry

Snowing up a Scene: Form, Impact and Wonder

January 18, 2023January 26, 2023 Ann Carr 540 Views 8 Comments Ann Carr, crystals, phantonm flakes, snowing

Snowing up a Scene Snowing up a scene, phantom flakes floating from heaven’s portal, sparkling, slow, suspended descent

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Poetry

The Wind out of Your Sails

January 5, 2023June 6, 2023 Ann Carr 783 Views 6 Comments Ann Carr, clear horizon, Disappointment, let down, sails, wind

Takes the Wind out of Your Sails No doubt you’ve heard that expression; you’re all fired up, ready to go,

Halloween Rhyming Verse

Hallowe’en; Revenge of the Damned?

October 20, 2022January 26, 2023 Ann Carr 558 Views 7 Comments All Saints, Ann Carr, halloween, haunting time, the damned, vampires

Hallowe’en, Revenge of the Damned? The Damned Hallowe’en, ‘Revenge of the Damned’ is a way for children to have fun,

Halloween Rhyming Verse

Hallowe’en: It’s No Joke

October 20, 2022January 26, 2023 Ann Carr 537 Views 4 Comments Ann Carr, carving pumpkins, ghoulish costumes, halloween, trick-kor-treating

Hallowe’en: It’s No Joke … Decorated Pumpkin I’m not a great fan of Hallowe’en. When I was young, many moons

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Rhyming Verse

Song Thrush

September 1, 2022September 4, 2022 Ann Carr 688 Views 9 Comments Ann Carr, bird, melody, song thrush, songs, spring

Song Thrush Inspiration I wrote this after hearing wonderful, soaring birdsong outside my house. I ran out to find

Poetry Rhyming Verse

On the Breeze

June 26, 2022September 1, 2022 Ann Carr 816 Views 6 Comments Ann Carr, breeze, breezy, clouds, love, something brewing

Lightly Comes the Breeze through the Trees Using the Written Word to make a Difference I wrote this some

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Blackbird

June 7, 2022July 8, 2022 Ann Carr 901 Views 8 Comments Ann Carr, blackbird, claiming territory, morning song, sings

Blackbird, his morning song … Blackbird atop Telegraph Pole The blackbird is my favourite. He’s bright and breezy, he

Rhyming Verse

Morph

June 2, 2022June 16, 2022 Ann Carr 856 Views 4 Comments

Which came first? Chicken or Egg? Morph Morph means to change shape. So many things morph – the human

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Puzzled?

June 2, 2022June 10, 2022 Ann Carr 815 Views 13 Comments Life puzzles, Puzzled, Types of puzzles

Puzzled? … I love crossword puzzles, codeword puzzles and many other types of word games. Words, languages, are my

Fiction Short Story

The Friend

March 13, 2022March 18, 2022 Ann Carr 2174 Views 12 Comments Ann Carr, chaos, city burned, horror, peace, safer place

The Friend … Scene from Ukraine, after a sudden bomb attack (Daily Mail 5/3/22 – article written by Marc Nicol)

Poetry Rhyming Verse

2B or Not to Be

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 Ann Carr 761 Views 11 Comments

2B or Not to Be This was inspired by Ralph’s poem ‘My Words Whisper to the Future‘, discussing books, which

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Poetry

Changes in Obligation: A ‘Blitz’ Poem

February 3, 2022February 4, 2022 Ann Carr 1099 Views 10 Comments

Changes in Obligation… C Each Grandchild has herbs to nurture, grow and use Blitz Poems I found out about Blitz

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Experience of Time and Place

January 19, 2022June 26, 2022 Ann Carr 766 Views 8 Comments Ann Carr, emotions, experience, fears, place, time

Experience Not only do we need to have varied experiences in our own lives, we need to allow, encourage, provide

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Night and Day; At Dead of Night

January 13, 2022March 24, 2022 Ann Carr 948 Views 9 Comments Ann Carr, day, dead night, night

On a whim, I wanted to try an acrostic poem on ‘night’ and ‘day’. I’ve added another offering from

Poetry Rhyming Verse

North of the Arctic Circle; ‘Boadicea’ and ‘The Northern Lights’

January 11, 2022January 14, 2022 Ann Carr 971 Views 7 Comments Ann Carr, Boudicca, Boudicea, cruise, northern lights, Norway

A few years ago, a good friend and I went on a Fred Olsen cruise to Norway, in search of

Acrostic Poetry

Softly Upon Mother Earth: Gaia

January 11, 2022January 14, 2022 Ann Carr 1504 Views 6 Comments Ann Carr, gaia, Mother Earth, spirit, walk softly

This is written specifically for The Creative Exiles, inspired by Phyllis Doyle. I love this line written by Phyllis at

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Poetry

Experience – 4 Aspects

October 8, 2021October 14, 2021 Ann Carr 1302 Views 13 Comments Ann Carr, life experience, memory's canvas, pain, poems, possibilities

Life Faces, places, emotions flicker on memory’s canvas, one by one, names/credits roll up and off my mind’s screen, gone

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