Rosy Cole's Writings
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Apr.23.2012
'Reflective, rhapsodic, comic, tragic, this collection of poems harmonises varied layers of human experience.'
Second Edition now available
Published: April 16, 2013 (National Poetry Month)
Dog Star
(After Robert Browning)
That's my last canine pictured on the wall
looking as if he were alive. I call
that piece no...
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Aug.17.2011
A children's play about Mary Jones, a Welsh girl of Georgian times who saved for six long years and walked 25 miles barefoot to obtain a rare copy of the Bible in Welsh. Her amazing story saw the British & Foreign Bible Society (Bible Society) launched in 1804. This edition published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
This is a one-...
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Poem
Apr.05.2010
A letter
can change
the meaning
no, not that kind
of letter
letterheaded
stamped
addressed
faxed
or emailed;
a single
letter
from a
single
I
to a single
You
no, not that kind
of You
U
For instance
to make
'collusion'
out of
'collision'
one must
substitute
U for I
though here
You for I
is good too
And when
or
is stretched to
our
that's neat...
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Sep.11.2009
There was nothing constructive to engage the Prince’s energies and an invitation to be fêted by the Berkeleys came at just the right point to help repair his ego and boost his spirits.
Mr Carrington had gone down to Weymouth with the family for those first weeks of the vacation and received an invitation to his lordship’s grand fête in the tents of the...
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Sep.08.2009
Excerpt from A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS
In 1787, the low rumble of grievance which had gone on since the early seventies, caused by poor harvests and a dramatic falling-off of trade with America, erupted into fullscale revolt. The butt of their anger was a fast new worsted spinning machine developed by Joseph Brookhouse, a business colleague of Coltman's. The...
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Sep.08.2009
Back in the summer of 1799, Jane Price had swept out of Cranford House and the Berkeleys’ lives in high dudgeon. Though a humble governess to the younger children, she felt that she had not been accorded the respect which was her due. She should have occupied a position on a par with the Reverend Mr Carrington, the older boys’ tutor, whose erudition had been...
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Sep.08.2009
His syntax ties her up in knots To cross the tees and I the dots, She notes the door is left ajar And wonders if it bodes her star, It augurs better than the frost, If that be all, Love's Labour's Lost!
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Aug.26.2008
(inspired by the work of the Danish illustrator, Kay Nielsen)
In an age before this, and the one before that, when time was an infant and dawn dews were diamonds, there lived a worthy knight who performed many deeds of valour to keep marauders from raiding the shores of his homeland. He was a torch-bearer and his name was Lucius, for that means 'bringer of...
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Aug.09.2008
Three
Miss Harriette Wilson languished in the bow window of Lord Craven’s house on Marine Parade, Brighton, and pondered a listless tide teasing the amber shingle along its shoreline. The Earl, her current protector, had disposed himself in casual fashion at the opposite end of the window-seat and was absorbed in sketching her. Whilst it was pleasing to...
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Poem
Aug.09.2008
Behold, I stand at the door and knock,
It's barred and bolted fast,
The windows, blind, outface the light,
Day's dark from first to last,
The threshold bears no 'welcome' mat
For he who shrinks inside
Renounces love and laughter
And chooses there to hide.
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I know his brow's impaled on thorns,
His limbs crack...
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...at the still point, there the dance is.”
—Burnt Norton - T. S. Eliot
About Rosy
Rosy Cole was born and educated in the Shires of England and now lives on the West Sussex coast. A professional writer for thirty years, she has worked as a Press Officer and Publisher's Reader and is a member of the Society of Authors (UK), the Historical...
Connections
Causes Rosy Cole Supports
World Vision, International Prison Outreach, Salvation Army, Emmaus Project, Poor Clares, DogsTrust, BUAV (against animal testing) WWT (Wildfowl &...
Rosy’s Favorite Books
Restoration - Rose Tremain, Rites of Passage - William Golding, The Waves - Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf, Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic...