WILD AND FREE won nomination for Best Poet of 2013

WILD AND FREE

Let the music run free

Take you places

High and low

Fast and slow

Run, run

Wild, wild

Free, free

Open spaces

Let this inner spirit go free

Release the tensions

Release the mind

From all the clutter and confusion

Days of ifs, buts and don’t knows

Sink and go beneath the surface

Subside

Sink into the peace

And serenity

Colours taking over

Swirling vibrant reds

Yellows, golden, blues, whites

Rushing, pulsing, pounding

Stampeding, thundering hooves of horses

Beautiful noises!

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

3^rd June 2012

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LEFT BROKEN AND BARE

LEFT BROKEN AND BARE

As I sit here feeling broken and bare

And stare, stare right out there

The day yet to begin

But hark the birds start to sing

A song I once knew of a love with you

Or was it with someone else?

You disappear, and then reappear

As if nothing has happened

Over and over again

With no gain

Except for the letdown, the come down

The feeling of being bruised

And so not amused

The tune unfinished, is now diminished

Along with the sparrows that chirped their tunes

The sun now rising there in the East

A glimmer of the sun through the clouds above

Shining of a once ago love

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

23^rd September 2013

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