Friday, 5 September 2014

5th FINALIST IN THE 'POETRY FOR ALL' COMPETITION 2014

5th FINALIST IN THE 'POETRY FOR ALL'  COMPETITION 2014
OUT OF 1,500 ENTRANTS

POETRY FOR ALL
Whether you are short or tall
Slim or chique
Whether your tongue is in your cheek
Poetry is an everyday event
And oh how it is heaven sent!
Poetry is a mover, groover and a cooler
Poetry is pleasing to the troubled brow
Even more so when there is a crow
Listening, high and low
Poetry has its peaks and troughs
And oh how we never get enough!
Poetry is inventive, creative and incentive
Panoramic, photogenic and at times so graphic
It’s a way of the world, not curled
Poetry is beautiful, beautified
Poetry writers, write so right
Their skills can be thrills that spills
From line to line, page to page
The nib of the pen writes over and over again
Depicting a picturesque, pictographic pictorial
For all that it enthralls
So you see
Poetry is for all
© Teresa Joseph Franklin
21st December 2013

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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

ANGELIC YET STRONG (taken from the Children's Anthology of poems 'SIMPLY MAGICAL'

ANGELIC YET STRONG
So soft are her wings
That heaven has given her
She glides with grace and elegance
Her role as our earthly angel is to bring peace and love
To guide us, steer us, from all that is dangerous
She whispers to us when we are asleep
Shows us such wondrous dreams
Of lovers on the rivers streams
But her strength is in knowing
The strength of the lion
Who we can rely on
To give us the gift of strength, courage and bravery
With each passing day
The will to be what we can be
A heart full of love and pride
She is always by our side
A candle in the darkness to show our way
A very, very heartwarming glow
That shows her unconditional devotion
The softest and gentlest hand
Stroking away our fears and tears
Music to our ears
A comfort to know, but not always understanding why
That she is silently, quietly
Very close by
© Teresa Joseph Franklin
19th July 2013

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Taken from the children's anthology of poems
'SIMPLY MAGICAL 

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