MYSTERIOUS (New Poem)

MYSTERIOUS

Yet very, very serious

Her airs and graces

Make her look not so delirious

All she wants to do is to be loved

Be a lover, be a best friend

Mysterious

Is how she hides herself

Flash backs inflicted upon her

Mysterious

All she wants is to be needed

24/7 365 days a year

Mysterious

All she wants is an angel

Tender and so real

And an angel to make her feel

Delirious

All she needs is to feel exited, elated

Mysterious

Hidden almost from view

Boldness, sadness

Wanting happiness

All she wants is wonderful

Beautiful

So deep, deep inside

She needs to feel so good

Oh those wonderful needs

Mysterious

Oh she is wondering, pondering

How these things work

Work, work!

Can you show me?

Oh that sensual squeeze

Mysterious

Oh she is thinking of you sweet boy

Oh she does not need a toy

With the damn ploy

Oh the silent tears

Oh the silent years

Adorned and idolised

Mysterious

Mysteriously worshiped

Oh she is in tears

Facing the fears

No more years

Alone, alone

She’ll change the silent tears

To real live wire tears

She’ll sob, sob

Alone, alone

Wondering, pondering

Mysteriously

Heavenly

Sometimes you win

Sometime you lose

Yet sometimes you need to hold tight

It’ll be alright

She wants you to believe in her

Believe that the world has torn her

Torn her to shreds

Toe to head

Mysteriously

She’ll find her true love

Where she’ll never be alone

And discard these adorns

The adorns she has worn

Letting the sunshine through

Through and through

Imagining the adoring

Oh the days are looking brighter

Maybe it is time to trust and let it all go

Go from this gloomy existence 

Oh mysteriously

In my heart I know this won’t be too long

So throw me a line

A line that I’ll never let go

Oh this could go so, so deep

Oh I cannot sleep

Oh how this is unravelling

The adornments are slipping away

Can you feel the atmosphere?

With a stroke of luck

Instead of stroking lashes so blackened

That no one can see me instead

Unblocking this mental atmosphere

Mysteriously, mysteriously

Magically emphatically

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

20^th October 2018

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JUST A SHORT MESSAGE

Just a short message to all my poetry viewers
There will be new poems coming, so please be patient as it all takes time to compose

Yours sincerely
Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

SOFTLY GENTLY (New Poem) image moves

SOFTLY GENTLY

Slowly does it!

This instrument of bliss and joy

Is now back in my possession

After a long, long omission

I’ve missed it with a passion

There is no fashion

It does not hold

Any gold

There is no price, you’re priceless

And here we are as one

Once again

Yet! There is someone missing

Just tell me what is wrong

We wowed

The crowds

Right up to the rafters of all the theatres

Their talking thereafter

Your silence is deafening

Deafening, oh these feelings

We sat together composing

The compositions bound us together

We loved the music we made

The music that was part of our lives

And here I am alone

Alone!

I’d give anything for you to be here

And here I stand with a lonesome tear

The music is strange to me now

Where the music flew like a delicate butterfly

Flowing softly and gently

I need you here, right here

Oh babe, oh babe

Come and tell me what is wrong

Can we make sweet music once again?

I’ve cried and cried

Day after day

Night after night

There is no longer any rhythm and rhyme

The piano plays on and on

Tinkering the ivories and ebonies

Just like you used to!

But there is a familiar sound to them

I turn around and a familiar face smiles

Smiles right back at me!

You’re here, here like you should be

Oh my heart and soul are singing

The strings of my violin are flowing

The musical notes flowing into the atmosphere

Just as it should be

This is where you belong

Now I’m flowing with the rhythm

Silently humming to the music

Oh babe, now the butterfly is on the wing

Flowing, flowing softly and gently

This is my joy, bliss

That I have so, so missed

Oh how I love you babe

This is where we should be

Rapturing, rapturing 

The crowds, the audiences

This is what they have missed

This is their rapture, their bliss

And now we finish our performance

The audience stands on their feet

Elation fills the room

We both feel it

We both see it

The exhilaration on our faces

We savor the moment

Never wanting or needing to leave

Who is important to our successes?

But we must leave you all

The euphoria plain to see and feel

Thank you, thank you

As we take our bows

We blow kisses to you all

Thankful and grateful

As I am that you came back to me

Adieu we’ll be back

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

14^th October 2018

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I'LL KEEP ON DANCING (New Poem)

I’LL KEEP ON DANCING

It takes a lot to keep on pushing through

This world that needs a lot of love

But I’ll keep on dancing

This won’t stop

The rise and fall

Of this dance

Bending and stretching

Twisting, turning and twirling

I’ll never stop dancing

Bringing you out of the darkness

Bringing you out of the starkness

The people that have dragged you down

Bringing on your frown

I’ll keep on dancing for you

And not just the few

Bringing the sweet, sweet love to you

Warming you sweet heart

That has been torn apart

So I’ll keep on dancing

Where there is no rhyme or reason

It remains neutral, neutralised

Where there are no barriers

This loving is built to last

Through all the rises and dives

So for you my sweet, sweet angel

I’ll keep on dancing

Through all the years and years

Yes this is our lucky year

I can feel it, see it

So my sweet honey

Come and sail away with me

Come and dance with me

We can taste the victories

Make our own histories

Memories

Take my hand with yours

Hand in hand

What will be will be

My heart is now in your hand

I’ll keep on dancing with you

I’ll keep on dancing for you

Sail away to distant shores

We’ll stay to the barriers

Holding, holding on so tight

Where it is so, so safe

And we’ll say goodbye, goodbye

Dancing so high

Through the wind and rain

Running down the window pane

Every time we’ll feel ten feet tall

Through the seasons and the fall

Where no one will put us down

All the heads are turning

We sing, we sing

Right out loud

Even the though the wind is blowing

Loving being close to you

We’ll get through the worst

We’ll keep on dancing

We’ll keep on and on glancing

At each other

Never letting others be a bother

You go straight to my soul when you dance

My soul that was once nothing but a glance

Meaningless

So I’ll keep on dancing forever and ever

Just for you!

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

7^th October 2018

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ALL THE THINGS SHE HAS BEEN (New Poem)

ALL THE THINGS SHE HAS BEEN

Downtrodden

Downhearted

Bearing the load

Down, down that road

The road of sadness

She has seen the worst

Round and round

Up and down

Helter skelter 

All that has melt her

The pain and agony

That threw its worst at her

But what has happened since

She is on her own

She looks to the heavens above

That is full of love for her

Her eyes, her eyes

Feeling wiser

Her self-confidence filling her

Arching away the pains

Arching away for the gains

Exerting, exertion, emotions

Emotions filling her

Tears a flowing

It’s easier now

She is making her own decisions

She is saving herself

Learning to forgive herself

There are times she is confused

Now she is feeling amused

No more bemusement

Down in that basement

The darkest of darkest

Oh she is out in the light

Breathing in the fresh air

Oh she has no care

There is no one making her change

She is doing what she feels

Exploding like a fire on fire

Her passion now out in the open

Her passion to dance and dance

Dance day and night

There were times when there was no understanding

Understanding the truth from lies

She was afraid of letting go

Along time ago

Her dreams shattered

All those dreams that mattered

She needed something to believe in

But here she is letting go

Her fiery passion

Her powder canvas

All the colours of the rainbow

There for her to pick and choose

And dance, dance too

Woman to woman

We know what it is all about!

Keeping holding on to love

That love will get a hold on us

Just like the ballerina

Dancing to love

Dancing to a better future

Oh such memories

Oh such new memories

When you look into her eyes

There is such hope

No more saying “nope”

No more saying “this way”

It is now this way

She is going to make it

There is a look of determination

A determined demonstration

She’ll dance to her own flow

And make a determined “have a go”

With her own confidence

Happy, happy, happily

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

30^th September 2018

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ACROSS THE SMOKEY ROOM (critically acclaimed poem & award winning poem in the category "Love Poems"

ACROSS THE SMOKEY ROOM

I watch your shadowy figure

Trying to figure you out

You sit there with a mind elsewhere

Gazing into space

Without a trace of emotions

You look lost

Your look confused

The sparkle in yours eyes gone

The music in the background playing

A sad, sad love song

You cup your head in your hands

Recognizing the beat

Wracking your brain

Like a runaway train

We’re both alike

Sat here in this Smokey, Smokey bar

Listening to that

Sad, sad love song

A love we both lost

That does not belong

You ask the bartender for a drink

Drinking our sorrows down the sink

You pull a cigarette from its packet

From there beneath your jacket

A jacket a dinner jacket

Looks like a date has gone wrong

Your tie bedraggled

A red wine stain on your shirt

Oh my do I know that score!

Here I sit cigarette in my hand

A martini on the stand

Trying to hide a red wine stain

Down this wondrous dress

He threw it over me

All because of you!

Yes you across this Smokey, Smokey room

Listening to that dam, dam

Sad, sad love song

You have wrecked so many lives

With your lies and rumours

And now it has come back at you

KARMA

But I hope that you’ll learn

Learn that you know how it feels

To lose someone you love and loved

So I will just be a face in the crowd

Passing the night away

Losing track of time

Passing these long, long hours away

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

1^st December 2014

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OVER THIS LAND

OVER THIS LAND

The wild and ancient land

Roaming free

Across the craggy rocks

And mountains high

Scanning

The landscape near and far

A land so quiet

Nothing making a noise

Except for the

Hawks

Eagles

Buzzards

Hovering on the wind

Silently

That their prey won’t hear them

Stalking

Shadowing

Lurking

Just above the sky line

Disguised

Veiled

Cloaked

Concealed

Never to reveal until the time is perfect

Then they strike at the prey

Nothing gets in their way

The lonesome wolf

Standing strong and proud

This is his land

Where his brothers and sisters

Roamed free

Hounded

Haunted

Frightened to the core

Is it any wonder that they moved to the mountains?

For safety

And security

Free from cruelty

The torture

The pain

The aimless slaughter

Of this wondrous beast

Maybe, just maybe

With time and help

They will roam free

As they did once

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

31^st May 2012

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Taken from the wolves book of poems

© Living Under The Same Sky

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson