LAYING BARE 2012 award wining poem

LAYING BARE

Life is a course of hiding

Disguising ourselves behind painted faces

Masking the truth

Veiling our face with hoodies

Hiding, hiding

Camouflaging

Concealing

Hiding away

Obscuring

Their faces

How do we know what you are like under all that covering?

Are you a complicated being?

Unsure of yourself

Complicated

Complex

Difficulty in revealing the real self

In this life of obscuring ourselves

Is there any element that needs revealing?

Our true selves

Possibly

How much would you reveal?

And lay bare?

Would you dare to?

Would life be more challenging without the veils?

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Venture into the unknown self

Gain a life of purity and love

Challenging

Those masks

Defying those masks

Revealing the true and real person

Baring all

Facing all

Defying all

Are you brave enough?

To bare the real you

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

THE SCENT SO SWEET (award wining poem)

THE SCENT SO SWEET

The sweet scent of the

Petals so soft

The beauties of all the flowers

More so when the showers

Rain down and endow

The sweetest scent of the rose

And its powers

The petals so soft

Flying aloft

With the gentlest breeze

Spreading its fragrances

Way beyond the trees

A love that was once

You and I

So tender and soft

Gone but never

Forgotten

The sweetest scent

So very in this present

Moment

Lest I forget that

You were my heaven

Sent

A love that will remain

Forever in my hearts

Domain

There is no fear

For lives endless cheers

Nor pain or sorrow

For all of my

Tomorrows

The sweetest of scents

Until we meet again

My sweetest scents of life

Life will go on

Once again

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

28^th April 2012

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FOLLOWING YOU (award wining 1st Nations poem)

FOLLOWING YOU

I see and watch you

Through my tears

A lonely figure

Travelling along

This lonely, lonely

Ancient land

You look so sad

Every moment I am by your side

You cannot see me

Hear me

But I hear you

Calling my name

In your hours of loneliness

You are never alone

My sweet, sweet love

Can you not hear my voice?

I miss you too

It was a sad day when I left

You oh so, so

Suddenly

I am near to you

Hugging you

To keep the cold out

That you feel constantly

Wrapping you up so tight

And tenderly

The campfire is lit

Keeping the darkness at bay

Your faithful bay horse

Not far from your side

Sensing

Feeling

His ears pricked up as if he knows

That I am near by

My sweet

My love

My friend

Look behind you

He knows

I just wish that you could

See, feel, sense

I will always be your side

Day by day

Night by night

Every moment

Through this journey

Of yours till the end

Of your days

We were inseparable in my

Lifetime

 We are inseparable now

My love

There will always be a light

Behind your back

Shining

Warming

Look it is a light

To let you know

I am close by

A never goodbye

Eternally by your side

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

22^nd May 2012

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QUIET SPACE

QUIET SPACE

This quiet space

Is the place where I can sit

And feel

This quiet space

So private

Yet so welcoming

The wide open space

Vast as the planet in the distant

With the aura so bright

That fills the sky

Stars

Glistening

Twinkling

Casting a magnificent hue

Beautiful

A meteor

Shoots through the sky

Silently

Quietly

As if it knows this is

My quiet space

Beautiful wonder of the universe

This quiet space

So calm

So peaceful

Feeling of being as one

With myself

Happier

Healthier

Brighter

Contented

My mind so free

Of the days breeze

Grounded

Astounded

Amazed

By the beauty

Of my solitary quiet space

This quiet space

The gentle breeze

Airing

Freshening

This face of mine

Bringing a glow

From long time ago

Airing my mind

Swishing and swirling my tresses

With a glow

This quiet space

Can never be erased

Fazed

Defaced

This very, very quiet space

An escape from the

Realities of life

Once in awhile

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

17^th June 2012

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IT'S A HEART SET FREE

IT’S A HEART SET FREE

Carefree as can be

A floating sensation

As light as a feather

Like a breeze floating by

It’s free, free

Willowy, wispy

Letting the worries be carefree

Breaking the chains and oh those bains

The stars a glistening oh listen

To that heartbeat, beating happily

Arms out wide, not side by side

Fly, fly free spirit

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

18^th October 2013

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PORTRAIT

PORTRAIT

Each and every portrait

That we see

Unique

Different

In style

Panache

Elegance and grace

The artist

Unique with his or her own style

Perceiving

Distinguishing

And individual model

With a distinctive

Difference

Maybe peculiar

Strange

Weird

And an oddity

To the naked eye

To an un-professional eye

But there is a magic

An air of mystery

Vibrancy

Energy

Liveliness

Maybe an air of exuberance

Vitality

Vibrant colorings

Powerful red

Blacks

And blues

The artist

His paint brushed as his makeup

Producing

Beauty

Ugliness

Whatever the mood that the artist is in

Whatever is inspiration takes him too

He is the artist of artists

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

17^th August 2012

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CONSTANTLY SEARCHING

CONSTANTLY SEARCHING

Throughout our lives we are constantly

Searching for the unattainable

Probing deeper and deeper

Examining closer and closer

Investigating, researching

Is this right?

Is that wrong?

Will it be right?

Will it be wrong?

Exploring new ways

New ventures

New avenues

New gains

Rummaging

Through the deluge

Of advertisements

The must buy this

The must buy that

This is right for you

This is wrong for you

Endless

Relentless

Unyielding

Persistence

Barrage

Of looking and searching

Discarding

Abandoning

The useless

For the usefulness

Life is just life foraging for that needle in the hay stack

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

24^th February 2013

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