PEACE AND LOVE

PEACE AND LOVE

Such a beautiful sound

We receive and give

Our love so unconditional

No strings

No bows

No arrows

Attached

Pure and Simple

Graceful

Beautiful

Elegant

That cannot be touched

It is invisible

Not seen by the eyes

The feeling is just

Like the bird in sky

Free

On the wing

Spreading its wings

So wide

The Dove the Bird of

Peace and Love

Unconditional

For you and I

Fluttering its wings

Transforming

A state of mind

Peace takes over

Quietness

Stillness

Silence

Except for the grasses

Gently whispering

It voices

That you are near

Glistening

Shimmering

Behold

A heavenly presence

The light so bright

That surrounds you

Glorious

Peace and Love

Always Be With You

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

5^th June 2012

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TAKEN FROM THE ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS

© HEARTFELT BARING ALL

LIFE ENFOLDS

 LIFE ENFOLDS

Let life enfold you

Curling and swirling

It’s magic

Like the potter’s wheel

Shaping

Molding

The clay

Into something so real

Surreal

The twines

The threads

The twist and turns

Weaving

Curling

Swirling

Like a

Crest of a wave

Sweeping over you

Colours

Of green

And blue

Of the sky

And the earth below

Of all things new

Loves enfoldment

Surprising

Enticing

Exciting

Thrilling

Commencement

Let it all enfold

Rejoicing

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

5^th May 2012

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Taken from the Anthology

© Heartfelt Baring All 

KITTENS THEY GET EVERYWHERE

KITTENS THEY GET EVERYWHEERE

You’re in my hair

Up my stairs

This is so unfair

You’re sitting on my favorite

Chair and then you stare

With a look that says

‘I dare you’

But I dare not for

You will win the fight

And give me such a

Fright

Kitten you get everywhere

Falling down those stairs

With that woeful stare

Meowing, crying because

You think no one cares

Kitty you are up the curtains

Watch out when they get

Back in

Oh kitty

What trouble you’re in

And that is a certainty

Kitty what is going to happen?

When you get older

Hopefully much wiser

No more antics

Causing the humans

The attack of the panics

Oh well let’s just wait and see

But I love you really

Just don’t like this

Sitting on my head

My bed

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

27^th December 2014

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A NEW BEGINNING

Taken from the anthology ‘Heartfelt Baring All’

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

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A NEW BEGINNING

Opening the book

To pastures green

Green and lush

With so much to write

And so much to see

And hear

Maybe

The beginning

The place

The time

The here and now

I feel like dancing

Pirouetting, twisting and turning

Like a ballerina

With wings to fly

Just like

The butterfly

Floating so high

In the sky

Then rest by the brook

That is

Weaving

Winding

Meandering

Through the pages

Of the new book

Refreshing

Regenerating

The old

Into new life

Springtime

New lifetime

The time

For new growth

And energy

Turning the bare

Branches into lush

New green leaves

Reaching high

Up to the sky

Now is the time

To write the new book

Whilst sitting here

By the brook

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

5^th May 2012

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THE TEARS THAT I HAVE CRIED

THE TEARS THAT I HAVE CRIED

Cannot be denied

Yet deep within I have so tried and tried

To push them aside

I’m so, so tired

I cannot sleep at night

Knowing I loved you so much

Your heavenly touch

I feel like there is still a ball and chain

Around this heart

A heart that is tearing me apart

Chains, chains like a fool

Knowing that I was just a tool

A weekender a pretender

There is so, so much misery

Knowing it was all a pretense

Knowing it all makes sense

What it is, what it is

But all I need now is a rock steady guy

Who’ll not say “Goodbye!”

A rock to be by my side

I’ll be his rock by his side

A guy who won’t make a fool out of me

Who won’t treat me like a see saw

Who’ll lift me up off the ground!

When I feel down

A kind of guy who’ll know

A kind of man who’ll do right

Day and night

Who’ll share his love with me!

A real guy who I can trust

Is a must

A guy that’ll turn this woman around

A guy that is waiting for me!

A guy that’ll search high and low for me!

I still believe that he is out there waiting for me!

No matter how high the mountains

No matter how deep the valleys

No matter how wide the rivers and seas

I still believe that love will be

No matter how high the skies

I just need to be strong

I just need to hold on

Because I am waiting, anticipating

For that precious day

For that memorable day

When I’ll be your princess

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

23^rd December 2014

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THOUGHTFUL

THOUGHTFUL

Very thoughtful

This empty mind

This empty skeleton

Ever thoughtful

Ever so thoughtless

Empty thoughts

Full of thoughts

What are your thoughts?

Just have these thoughts

Thoughts

Spinning and spinning

Brimming over with them all

The mind agog

Jeeps a fog

Must clear them thoughts

Oh dear they’ve gone

Now what can I ponder over and fill my mind with thoughts

Any thoughts anyone?

Cos I’m done

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

11^th November 2012

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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

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