BEFORE YOU (updated poem)

BEFORE YOU

Mystery and mysticism

Enchanting, enchantment

Beauty, beautified

Serenely serene

Before you

A woman to be adored, adorned

A woman to be loved, cherished

A woman to be by your side

Before you

All your dreams come true

Before you

I am here

I am there

And here I will stay

With a love that will adorn you

A lover, a best friend

Before you to the end

No mask, no makeup

No adornments

Before you just as I am

A pure essence within

A pure and simple woman

A woman without an ego

Oh boy how I let the go!

A woman that fell down

A woman who rose much stronger

A woman who is not ambiguous

All that you see is so clear

All that you will feel is so, so clear

Dear, dear

This woman has a heat in her heart

One that will die, fly

This heart flies, flies

So, so high

A heart, heat that you will never eliminate

It’ll burn, burn easily

Breezily, breezily

Like the winds, the sun

The strongest maelstrom

Will never fan it out

So I now I scream and shout

THIS WOMAN BEFORE YOU

Are you ready?

Are you steady?

Will you be ready?

Can you be steady?

Before you this woman before you

Would, could you love her?

Love her for who she is?

Not the adorned woman

But the stark naked woman

Would you be vague with her?

Would you be truthful with her?

Would you lead her into confusion?

Or be absolutely truthful with her?

Can you be the man for her?

Without judgments!

Before this woman

Would you, can you be her strength

Her everything

Before her

Before me

Can you be?

Be her light in the dark

She’ll be yours

Can you shed tears for her?

Like she’d shed them for you

Before you

Could you tame her restless spirit?

Before it takes over her

Tame her but never lame her

Before you this woman

Would you put her through hell?

Because she would be able to tell

And run, run away

Before you, you and you

She has made mistakes

But she is no fake!

She has erred and erred

But she is human, humane

Before you, you and you

She is caring, kind and gentle

And will always reside

With each and everyone’s hearts

Would you, could you be her hero

She’d be your hero, never a zero

Oh before you

She could never live without her sunshine

Her sunny, sunny sunshine

Oh before you!

Her dawn is just beginning

Hopeful, optimistic

Cheerful

Without a shadow of doubt

Before you

This woman will adore you to the end

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

9^th July 2016

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ENTRAPMENT (updated poem)

ENTRAPMENT

It has been a set-up

A sting

Frame-up

With all that snaring

Felt trapped

With no escape

Like a noose

Barbed with wires

Coming out of everywhere

Stinging

The pricking

The stabbing

Ensnared in their games

Petty

It might have been

The intent was cruel

Trapped

Entrapped

Oh what a fool

Enmeshed

Entangled

Ensnared like a fool

A tool to be used

Abused

The intent so cruel

Treated like a clown

A joker

In the pack of cards

But hey so what

Isn’t the joker used for some good?

Or has that not been the case?

Oh you stupid, silly buffoon

How did it get this far?

Why didn’t you look?

Why didn’t you investigate?

I guess we all make mistakes

Errors of judgment

Now that is the wrong word to use

Bit harsh and hard

It is not for us to judge

Or be the jury

Maybe a lesson to be learnt

Take it not to heart

As it can eat you alive

A spirit

A soul

The very being can be destroyed

Letting it go

With love and forgiveness

These shackles

What were you thinking?

The knives

The wires

Release

And let it all go free

Retaining

Dignity

And face

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

9^th July 2016

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I'M FREE

I’M FREE

I’m free

Yippee

Way too long in that lamp

Too long in the dark

This feels like it has been one long stretch

Who put me in there from the start?

Hang on it was that wicked witch

Who lives in the tree stump!

Time to stretch

These bent and buckled joints

And muscles

Where are my feet?

Oh heck looks at my dress

My hair is a mess

Now this is causing distress

I can hear you say I’m going

To ask for three wishes

Hang on a minute…

I think I deserve mine first

O what shall I wish for?

Genie, Genie of the lamp

Oh how I wish that you could be here

And grant me just three wishes

O heck I have just used up a wish

O how I wish that you could

Release me from this wood

And the bind to the lamp

O genie of the lamp

Help me get out of this

So that I can feel such bliss

Please….?

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

10^th April 2012

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THE BEGINNING OF A NEW DAY

The Beginning of a New Day

Yesterday has gone

With all its sorrows

Trials

And

Tribulations

Today is a new day

Everywhere is green

A renewal day

Spring is on its way

Shining through

Sprouting through

The undergrowth

The warmth of the sun

Surrounding

Glowing

Like a new born

Sun

The reflections of the new

Evergreens

Sparkling

All the colours

And the hues 

Life has begun

The arrival of the

Native wings

Calling to each other

Brothers

And

Sisters

All as one

New life

Will come

Under this new sun

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

6^th July 2016

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IN A WORLD SO FULL OF UNFEELING (updated poem)

IN A WORLD SO FULL OF UNFEELING

In a world so full of unfeeling

Disconnected, rejected

Fraught, distraught

Uncaring, despairing

Dispassionate, impassionate

Emotionless

Couldn’t care less

Detached, miss-matched

Disjointed, misappropriated

Who cares? Who dares?

Is this the world and its state and stature?

Could we change it? Can we change it?

Would you change it?

But where does the beginning begin?

Me, you or them

When does it happen the coming together?

As one with feeling, compassion

Jointed, joined enjoyed

That glorious feeling of being together

As family, friends, companions, colleagues

Working together as one

Grasping those feelings

Wondrous, marvellous never to be disjointed ever again

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

4^th July 2016

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SNUZZLES ................... Funny and cutee poem

SNUZZLES

I love you lots

Cos you mean lots

We are brother

And sister

We play around lots

Climbing up the curtains

And

Scratching lots

The two legs

Don’t like it a lot

But they are stuck with us now

The wanted two sweet kittens

To keep them company

Sit on their laps

On their bed

On their head

And shoulders

They keep us well fed

With a lovely warm bed

Right by the fireside

Cozy and warm

They like seeing us playing

And pretend fighting

But when we nuzzle like this

They go all coooeeeee

And silly softeeee

Saying silly things like

O aren’t they cute

Adorable

Delightful

And all that stuff

Little do they know

That we love them so

As well

So let’s keep nuzzling

Just for the show

Oh by the way your nose is cold

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

24^th October 2014

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