SUMMER DAYS

SUMMERY DAYS

Playing in the fields of maze

The brightest of yellows

Like the sun kissed meadows

All in bloom where there is no more room

For flowers to grow

The field of daffodils still in bloom

The irises in their purple hues

Daisies made into chains

Children frolicking, leaping, everywhere

Lambs a gamboling with a spring in their legs

Jumping, bounding oh so happily

The sun kissed faces leaning to the sun

Whilst everyone is having fun

The sun is now at its highest, brightest

The heat all aglow with a hazy haze

Shimmering, glimmering across the land

The butterflies flitting from flower to flower

Oh such wondrous colours too

There blues, reds, oranges drinking the nectar

To bloom and grow

Oh such wondrous sights and sounds

On a beautiful summers day

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

11^th July 2013

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THE LION AND HIS QUEEN (award winning Children's poem 2015)

THE LION AND HIS QUEEN

Where did it all begin?

Right from the start this lion king

Saw his queen, there was a beauty

As was his thinking

She was cute, adorable

And surrounded in pink

There she was looking his way

From a safe distance

She knew he was king

Her everything

His mane so glorious

Glorious shades of gold

Light and bright just like a butterfly

Flitting around in the sky

Holding his head so high

True to his name, with fame

His notorious battles he has won

Defending his domain

But within resides the softest, gentlest lion of them all

He is a great father, but his queen is the teacher to them all

He knows he will have great pride

With her by his side

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

13^th July 2013

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THE LONG ROAD AHEAD

THE LONG ROAD AHEAD

That leads to my homestead

Rich and pure

That is for sure

It’s a lonely road

Just wish that you had been here

But you’d rather be back there

Instead of here

I cannot go back

I cannot back track

That road so troubled, worried

That carried such falsities

Fallacies

Jealousies

You’d rather I’d stayed

Stayed in a cocoon

With no room

You’d rather I’d be by your side

Where there was no room

Room to breath

Breath of breath

It would have been my death!

You loathed the successes

You loathed the adulations

You loathed the admirations

But you loved my weaknesses

Yet these were and are my strengths

Strengths to walk away

Walk right, right away!

To my homestead faraway

The long road ahead

It’s where I’m a heading

It’s loveless

Yet covet less

The clouds maybe grey

But I am going anyway

To a future that has been destined

My destiny

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

26^th January 2014

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award winning poem of 2015

ESCAPISM (award winning poem of 2014)

ESCAPISM

Just that feeling from getting away from it all

Legs outstretched, leaning backwards

Oh the bliss and how I have missed this

Taking it all in

Savouring every moment, second, minute

The bouquet of flowers crushed, crumpled

Just like the moment you flattened my world

Tattered, shattered and curled

The darkest of days, the haze, the maze

Struggling to see the daylight

Walking in your shadows

The dark, dark shade just like the night

But that is all gone, long gone

The light is bright

Oh so good to be in the light

Do what I feel, see what is right

No more fear or fright

ESCAPISM

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

14^th November 2013

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Award winning poem of 2014 

YOUR OWN VOICE (award winning poem of 2014)

YOUR OWN VOICE

The voice of your own choice

The quietness

The peacefulness

That brings you back to the stillness

Motionless

That time becomes ageless

Changeless

The ever unending

Never-ending

Unbending

Silence

That quietens

The hustle

And the bustle

That swirls and twirls

Around and around

Listen to your own voice

The one of your choice

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

23^rd March 2014

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THE SUN IN THE SKY

THE SUN IN THE SKY

Way up there so high

The night so clear

So vividly clear!

The stars in the night sky

Twinkling, sparkling

Just like fairy dust floating by

The moon and the planets showy

And oh how they catch the eye

Their magnificent, resplendent

Colours glittering by

There before your eyes

Jupiter, Mars floating merrily by

The late, late sun shining on this Earth

The early, early Moon of the evening

There before your eyes

The land below all aglow

The river running bright and clear

The grasses heavily laden with dew

The mountain tops and peaks glistening

Their whiteness with the snow

Oh to be sitting here forever more

But the morning soon arrives

The skies will be blue once more

Stretching outwards and upwards

For ever more

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

9^th July 2013

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SUNRISE SUNSET

SUNRISE SUNSET

When it is at its best

The going down of the sun

Shining in all its glorious colours

Leaving us with a bye, bye

Oh such a wondrous day when it begun

Hearts and minds all agog

Ready, waiting never berating

Making you feel like dancing, prancing

With such glee and gaiety

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

29^th August 2013

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Award winning poem

and taken from the file 

(c) Seasons

WITH THE ROLLING OF THE WAVES

WITH THE ROLLING OF THE WAVES

The rolling of the waves

Signifying changes

Changes that can be changed

The way we live

Breath

Stretched to the limits

Suffocation

Crushed

Heavy weight

Laying upon us

Changes crashing all around us

Some for the best

Some for the worst

But changes happen

Whether we want them to or not

Major changes

Life that went strolling along

Now rushing

Gushing

Moving so fast

That we cannot keep up with it all

Tossing and turning

Churning

Way deep inside

Upside down

Curling

Swirling

Rip tide

Pulling us under

With no strength to carry on

Drowning

Under the weight

Of the changing tides

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

8^th June 2012

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2012 award winning poem

Voted one of top ten poets in the United Kingdom

WE DANCED IN THE SHADOWS (New Poem)

WE DANCED IN THE SHADOWS

The shadows of the darkest of nights

We wept, we cried

But we have not died

It is our affair

No one else’s

We call it our date night

Away from the maddening crowds

Away from the staring eyes

Whose eyes pry

Pry into our lives

We stay separate

We want to be left alone

Alone to dance the night away

Evocative, seductive

We want to stay in this smoky room

With just a glimmer of a light

We can keep each other in sight

This is no place for beginners

This is no place where there are endings

A place where there is a license to love

Endless, endless love

Across the room they look at us

But we have only eyes for each other

Dancing evocatively

They can walk on by

But we remain glued to the spot

Eye to eye

Tenderly, evocatively

We hold each other

Never wanting, never needing to let go

Never wanting or needing this date to end

Lovers and friends is what we are

But yet we do not see this in the room

They sit and stand afar from each other

Scowling, frowning at us

Jealousy?

We just don’t care

We have just one more hour

An hour!

An hour

We are going to make the best of it

Here and now!

And then away from these crowds

This crowded, crowded room

To be alone at home

Till then we’ll just have eyes for each other

And no other

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

17^th July 2017

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