POETRY THAT COMES FROM THE HEART AND SOUL: 2013

Tuesday 31 December 2013

WE LET EACH OTHER GO

I wished and wished it was not so!

There was a real love so true

We both knew

We parted, departed

But in part

We both knew

We both still know

That deep within our love never ceased

We come together with great proceed

To take it slow, real slow

But it is hard to hide or show

The golden glow

This beating heart that has missed your beating heart

Who oh why did we part?

I miss the closeness

Our lovingness

Oh and our chumminess

Those silly, silly banters

That made us canter

Here and there

Without a care

You made that so wished for call

You called, you called

And yet again you had me enthralled

My heart felt so light

So bright

Oh I really hope this turns out right!

31^st December 2013

Monday 30 December 2013

A LIFE SO FREE

And it’s not just me!

It can be carefree

Singing in the rain

Pouring down the windows panes

Laughing out loud

Screaming out loud

The joy the bliss

Oh never to miss

It’s letting go of those shackles

Letting those hackles go hackle

Stretch, stretch

Never to wretch

30^th December 2013

Saturday 28 December 2013

RECORDING OF 'POETRY FOR ALL' The original version & New Version on Soundcloud

With grateful thanks to Ian Bradley Marshall for recording 'Poetry For All' a must listen to for all Poetry writers and lovers

https://soundcloud.com/ian-bradley-marshall/poetry-for-all-by-teresa

THE STAIRS TO YOUR HEART

The long, long trudge

Up those slippery, slimy and oily grunge

The wooden planks

That caused a lot of pranks

The metal studs that were made with thanks

Thanks they hurt so much!

They pierced the soul

My very whole

The precarious

The hazardous

The perilous

Rickety, rackety uncertainty

You became hesitantly

Tentatively and doubtfully

Why? Why? Oh why?

When all I do is try, try and try!

And all I hear are your long drawn out sighs!

So why should I bother?

Is it too much of a bother?

Can you not be bothered?

To meet me half way

This way, that way!

Or anyway!

That way we can reach each other’s hearts

Where we will never be apart

28^th December 2013

Wednesday 25 December 2013

THOUGHTFUL

THOUGHTFUL

Very thoughtful

This empty mind

This empty skeleton

Ever thoughtful

Ever so thoughtless

Empty thoughts

Full of thoughts

What are your thoughts?

Just have these thoughts

Thoughts

Spinning and spinning

Brimming over with them all

The mind agog

Jeeps a fog

Must clear them thoughts

Oh dear they’ve gone

Now what can ponder over and fill my mind with thoughts

Any thoughts anyone?

Cos I’m done

11^th November 2012

Saturday 21 December 2013

POETRY FOR ALL

Whether you are short or tall

Slim or chique

Whether your tongue is in your cheek

Poetry is an everyday event

And oh how it is heaven sent!

Poetry is a mover, groover and a cooler

Poetry is pleasing to the troubled brow

Even more so when there is a crow

Listening, high and low

Poetry has its peaks and troughs

And oh how we never get enough!

Poetry is inventive, creative and incentive

Panoramic, photogenic and at times so graphic

It’s a way of the world, not curled

Poetry is beautiful, beautified

Poetry writers, write so right

Their skills can be thrills that spills

From line to line, page to page

The nib of the pen writes over and over again

Depicting a picturesque, pictographic pictorial

For all that it enthralls

So you see

Poetry is for all

21^st December 2013

Friday 20 December 2013

5* Review of THE VEIL: DREAMS Part one (Elven God's Series)

Available from Amazon.com also

Kindle and Paperback editions

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Cassandra has really put her first novel in first place with her brilliant, brilliant 'The Veil: Dreams Part One together.
Dreams, we all have them, but do we believe in them? are they a figment of our imagination? Are they real? and why do we see people we know in them? we are talking with them as if they are there with us even though they no longer exist in our world. But do they?
Mystery and suspense abound when Sasha founds out that one person is not dead, that they have powers that enable them to visit dreams and this is where Sasha finds out herself that she is a Sorceress herself, that she is special and not like the rest of those around her. Who and what are those shape shifters and why is it so important that they be eliminated ? There is passion, love and romance in a world that seems beyond ours
I cannot fault Cassandra's first ever short story and I am really looking forward to reading her follow up
Thank you Cassandra for a brilliant great read and a pleasure to do a review for you
Teresa Joseph Franklin

Tuesday 17 December 2013

THE CITY OF ROMANCE

Where we just glanced

Took one long, long glance

We danced, oh we danced

In the city so gay and carefree

Paris, Paris, Paris

All through the long, long night

The night life shone and shone

Whereupon it seemed we were the only ones

The stars were shining so bright

Your eyes shining, with love

They spoke of forever, eternally

Just you and me

Always being carefree

Letting the world float by

Floating on a sea of paradise

Were we so wise?

Did we not see with our eyes?

Those tears that never conquered our fears

The rain splattered sidewalks

The flooding rivers that rose from

The endless, ceaseless,

Barrage of jealousy, envy

The barrage of insecurities

The frightening lightning of your enlightening

Infidelity

Will stay with me incessantly

17^th December 2013

Sunday 15 December 2013

COMFY, COSY SOFA

Oh how I have missed you!

It’s been a long week and oh what a week!

The outlook looked so bleak and weak

Tired and tiresome

It reached fevers peak

But here I lay and will stay

Snuggled, nuzzled and huddled

In your warmth, warmness

You fill me with your affection

Tenderness, kindness

Your soft downy touch

That I have missed so much

You’ve enthralled, exhilarated and stimulated my senses

Your touch, oh so irresistibly seductive and desirable

Leaves me wanting more and more

But wait!

There is something, someone missing!

You! You! You!

My Adonis

Oh how I miss you!

With all the above!

15^th December 2013

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - The Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth

Saturday 14 December 2013

ARE WE SO BLIND?

ARE WE SO BLIND?

We walk around oblivious

Unconsciously unaware

Like robots mechanically programmed

Numb unfeeling

Our reflexes reaching for the norm

Intuitively, unthinkingly

Our subconscious

Thoughts, feelings behaving out of sync

We all traipse around lifeless and blindfolded

Insensible

With not a smile on your faces

In your familiar places

You traipse, you frown

Just like a clown

Oh what a circus running around

And here you are

Unresponsive to the beauty all around

Are we so blind? Are we so bound?

Running around

Take off the binds, the blinds, the blinkers too

FEEL, SEE, TASTE, HEAR, LISTEN

All that is around us

LOVE

In a blindfolded world

20^th December 2012

Thursday 12 December 2013

THE SOFTEST OF SOUNDS

THE SOFTEST OF SOUNDS

The softest sounds come from the heart

Where nothing can tear that apart

The sweet, sweet rhythms of a heart beat

The flow of energy, flowing gently

Very much like the ebony and ivory

Of the piano chords

The highs that sound like a whisper

The pounding beat of the low notes

Base drums beating with all that is

Sounding out the rhythms for the ballerina

Tap, tap, tip, tip toeing

Flowing, curving, rolling

The elegance, the grace

So fluent, so self-assured

So self-confident, so self-possessed

The tune, the melody

Striking a balance

For us to swing to

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

5^th April 2013

Wednesday 11 December 2013

GUIDING LIGHT

You have been my guiding light

That has shone through the years so bright

Through the heartbreak, the heartache

That brought me to my knees

Begging, imploring please!

You wiped away my tears

Hushed my fears

Those were evidently plain to see and hear

You listened, you heard them all

You heard my screaming call

You never judged

You never left my side

Silently, quietly

That is where you constantly resided

Through the coldness, chilliness

Warming this troubled spirit

With your unconditional love

11^th December 2013

Tuesday 10 December 2013

Winters Warrior (soon to be a short story) ON A MISSION

ON A MISSION

A mission that needs movement

A mission to be fought with might

A fight to the end

Warriors bend

Every corner taken

Every corner travelling

Every corner never knowing

If the truth unbends

If the lies are well hidden

In the slippery bends

They must travel this road with its bends

Fighting the cause to the ends

Warriors

Fighters

Guardians

Fighting against the darkness

The gloom

And doom

They must travel

Near and far

Never wondering

Never questioning

Never pondering

Just go into the fight

With might

Power

With all the forces

Valor

Weapons at the ready

Warding off the predators

From the darkness

Chasing them to the end

Out into the light

This they can depend

The raven

Bringing enlightenment

Truth and justice

The wolf

The warrior’s guardian

Protector

Ears pricked and pointed backwards

A warning

Snarling his teeth

As a warning

Come any closer to my prince

Of the light

I will defend

He can depend

So they travel around the bends

Ever alert

Watchful

Prepared

At the ready

26^th August 2012

Monday 9 December 2013

FACT OR IS IT JUST FICTION?

Fact or is it just fiction?

Am I just a figment of your great imagination?

Is this just fanciful?

Or just unbelievable!

Either way or whichever way

I’m sat here high on a branch

With wings furled

Trying to answer your questions

Yes I am real, surreal

To your vivid imagination

I am here and there

In the sunlight, in the shadows of your mind

Watching, listening, hearing your calls

Oh please listen to my calls

Your fears, tears I see and feel

Just quieten those voices you have many choices

Yet I have the right one for you

I’m here right beside you!

In the flesh!

Are we not all Angels of this earth?

To help, to aid, to knock down the barricades

9^th December 2013