TIPPING, TAPPING, TOEING

TIPPING, TAPPING, TOEING

To the beat

Beat it out on the streets

Let it be your freedom

Freedom to be

Bringing joy and happiness

Full of fun and glee

This festivity

The joy of coming together

Whatever the weather

The sunshine be yours and mine

The blazing heat

Within our hearts it surely beats

The wind and rain

With much to gain

The glistening snow

Oh what a wondrous show

The tinkering melodies

Melodic to our ears

No matter what our years

Our peers

Tipping, tapping and toeing

Sees us toing and froing

Thoughts of family and friends

Bringing each and every one of them closer

Even though they may be far away

Yet could turn up unexpectedly

The wish, the wishes

The tables laden with heaps of dishes

 And we are still

Tipping, tapping and toeing

Coming and going

With much cheer and cheers

With many blessings

That the year has given us all

May the coming New Year

Brings you all cheer

Blessing a plenty

Peace and Goodwill

On this Heaven and Earth

So keep those feet a

Tipping, Tapping and Toeing

A song in your heart

That’ll never depart

With all my best wishes

To you and yours

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

20^th December 2014

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WHAT DID MUM SAY TO US?

WHAT DID MUM

SAY TO US?

Now look at the pickle we are in

Mum said that we weren’t to

Go far, well this is as far

As it goes for me

We are stuck in the

Middle of this road

And I don’t know which way to go

Come on you are the eldest

Which way to go??

I am so hungry I could eat

Anything that passes by

What you reckon?

I so want to cry….

Shall we hitch a ride?

Catch the first thing that goes by?

Or wait for mum

Oh heck we are in trouble with her now

This is your entire fault

Not listening to you again

In the future

There’s no need to poke me

I’m not happy either

I’m sorry

I think we should

Go back the way we came

CAN YOU REMEMBER

THE WAY?

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

19th December 2014

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IT'S WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF

IT IS WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF

Fairy tales without the puppy dog tails

Fairy tales of long, long ago

Fairy tales when the dreams just flow and flow

Fluttering their golden wings here and there

Her wings so thin that they may break

But never fear they are too strong,

The tips of her wings like the Peacocks

Oh how they shine, oh divine

The magical, mystical little fairy girl

Her hair a golden, golden gleaming colour

She has made a daisy garland that adorns her head

She is the fairy of the land of nature

This little fairy girl holds what is so dear

The trees and all its leaves, the branches reaching

Tall and thin, the trunk so sturdy that it shall not fall

The grass so green, clean and clear

Within her hands she holds a doll

This doll is exactly just like her

Her dress an electric blue, oh what a hue!

When the night falls the stars do shine

Bringing much laughter that is yours and mine

They twinkle, sparkle from heavens divine

If you watch carefully, very carefully

They will be dancing a very happy tune

But these aren’t just twinkling stars oh no!

They are the magical, mysterious, and mythical

Fairies dancing just for you in your midnight dreams

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

26^th June 2013

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Taken from the Anthology

Simply Magical

Amazon.com & Amazon UK

WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING?

WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING?

You keep toing and froing

Backwards and forwards

With your never knowing

Your hopes and wishes

You keep dashing them why?

You’ve always dreamed of them

But what is scaring you?

I know what it is to dream

Have so many wishes

Hoping that they’ll come true

And see them through

But you!

Not I

Cannot seem to abide

All that seems to reside

Inside

You come to me for counsel

The rain lashing outside

Your head bent against the weather

Hunched back

Pulling your umbrella tighter

Why cannot you be the once renowned fighter?

What happened to you?

That was so you through and through

You had visions

You said

“I’m on a mission”

But you never saw them through

What happened to you?

“It’s you!”

“I’m in love with you!”

“You through and through”

“You are my mission”

“You are my vision”

“Can you not see?”

“Can you not feel it?”

“Where would I be without you?”

“In a world so cruel”

“But this world without you is unbearable”

“I cannot breathe without you”

“This world of mine is worthless without you”

“Every time I see you I just go weak”

“Weak, weak, weak”

“Then I cannot speak”

“You have me trembling”

“Then I remember the remembering”

“Our times together, whatever, together”

“Can’t you see or feel anything?”

“Like I feel, like I feel!”

“Babe you drive me to insanity”

“This pouring rain is no comfort”

“The crowds drive me insane”

“Every footstep that I take to you is for you”

“I cannot hide, I cannot run”

“I do not want to hide or run”

“Except keep running to you”

“No more toing and froing”

“I’m sick and tired of being alone”

“You should be with me babe!”

“You and I together forever”

“We need to live our lives to be free”

“Free, free, free”

“Free together but as one”

“So come on say something, anything”

“Let me come in out of the pouring rain”

“Forever, together”

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

16^th December 2014

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DO YOU SEE WHAT I FEEL

DO YOU SEE WHAT I FEEL

The deafening sounds of thunder

The black and blue skies

Rolling along like the waves

Way up there in the heavens

The cracking lightening

Like my broken heart

Splitting into pieces

Like shards of glass

I hear the clapping thunder

I hear your hands clapping with glee

Did you not know how you made me feel?

Did you not know that you made me happy!

Or were your words not for real?

Then why make this world of mine so surreal?

With your words of love and devotion

You made this world of my feel like heaven on earth

Now all you feel is mirth

And now all I want is for this to disappear

Like the clapping thunder

The striking lightening

The lashing rain

Letting it pound, pound

Washing, cleansing this heart and soul

Oh what a fool!

A huge fool to this world of love

But I’ll stay a devoted fan of love

And one day, yes one day

I’ll follow my heart

And my true destiny

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

14^th December 2014

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