5th FINALIST IN THE 'POETRY FOR ALL' COMPETITION 2014

5th FINALIST IN THE 'POETRY FOR ALL'  COMPETITION 2014

OUT OF 1,500 ENTRANTS

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

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

21^st December 2013

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ANGELIC YET STRONG (taken from the Children's Anthology of poems 'SIMPLY MAGICAL'

ANGELIC YET STRONG

So soft are her wings

That heaven has given her

She glides with grace and elegance

Her role as our earthly angel is to bring peace and love

To guide us, steer us, from all that is dangerous

She whispers to us when we are asleep

Shows us such wondrous dreams

Of lovers on the rivers streams

But her strength is in knowing

The strength of the lion

Who we can rely on

To give us the gift of strength, courage and bravery

With each passing day

The will to be what we can be

A heart full of love and pride

She is always by our side

A candle in the darkness to show our way

A very, very heartwarming glow

That shows her unconditional devotion

The softest and gentlest hand

Stroking away our fears and tears

Music to our ears

A comfort to know, but not always understanding why

That she is silently, quietly

Very close by

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

19^th July 2013

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Taken from the children's anthology of poems

'SIMPLY MAGICAL 

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