STARTS WITH A GLIMMER

STARTS WITH A GLIMMER

Shimmering

Gleaming

Shining

Slowly

Then burst into light

Orbs

Flashes

Streaks

Rippling

Into bubbles of light

Enlarging

Growing

Lifting

Rising, rising

Higher and higher

Way beyond

The outer limits

The sky is not the limit

Lighting

The North

The South

The East

The West

Electric Blue

Purple

White

Seeping out

Streaming out

Oozing out

Escaping out

Spreading its light for you and I

Always

Ever

Eternal

Existence

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

18th March 2016

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DESOLATE

 DESOLATE

Empty spaces

Too many of them

This time

Right now

Just isn’t right

Right now I need this place

Quietness, stillness

It may seem stark

Sand, sand everywhere

Bare, naked, stripped

Of any good

So fits this mood

Solitude

Silence

Is all around me

Not a whisper

Just a gentle breeze

Frozen to the spot

Shadows

Echoing my dark feelings

Round and round I go

Walking aimlessly

Round and round

Ever increasing circle

Alone with my thoughts

Crazy mixed up feelings

Blue, blue

Trying so hard to chase

Them away

Blue, blue hues

Misty moon a gathering

Misty eyes, gloomy eyes, dark, dark eyes

Sleep, sleep, and please come to me!

These shadows won’t go away

You are in my weary, exhausted mind

Clouding, blurring, confusing my thoughts

Burrowing deeper and deeper

 I can no longer escape

Tomorrow is the day

Face it, face it!

It is not going away

Fear is not with me

It is the voice

Telling me what to do

When I know I shouldn’t

Keep running away

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

16^th March 2016

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MY REFLECTION LOOKING BACK AT ME

MY REFLECTION LOOKING BACK AT ME

This wolf that is in the water

He keeps looking at me

This wolf that is in the water

Is a reflection of what I used to be!

Roaming free and being me

This wolf that is in the water

Has no family

He has only me

This wolf that is in the water

Is not crying or making a sound

He is not yet condemned or bound

This wolf in the water will not drown

This wolf in the water

Is happy to be

Where he can see

All that is forever, whatever will be

The wolf looking down on the wolf in the water

Wants to know how this all can be?

It is not me in the water

I only came to sip up the water

But I am glad to see

The wolf in the water

Who looks just like me!

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

7^th April 2012

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Taken from the book of wolves poetry

@LIVING UNDER THE SAME SKY

@Teresa Joseph Franklin

SUNRISE SUNSET

SUNRISE SUNSET

The cycle of life

And all that exists

Between man and beast

Who try to co-exist

SUNRISE

The beginning of a new day

In every single way

Dawning of new ventures

Endeavors

Adventures

Along this high way

For this is the way

For these two

In some ways

Searching

Looking

For their own place to be

Free at liberty

From mans

Authority

SUNSET

The beginnings of the end of the day

The sun shining in all its glory

Lighting up the sky

With hues of orange, yellow and brown

Did these two find their glory

At then end of this day?

Away from man’s authority

They stand like sentinels

Upon a misty hill

Looking yonder

Wonder

Pondering

Is this what life is

And destiny

Passing between the here and now

May they find the hope

And a faith that all will be well

And that no man

Will haunt them along

This highway

Of life

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

29^th April 2012

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TAKEN FROM THE BOOK OF POEMS

© LIVING UNDER THE SAME SKY

© Teresa Joseph Franklin