Let me make this day worthwhile

Let me make this day worthwhile,

For someone else

Spring time

Flowers line the road

‘Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.

It comes to us at midnight,very clean.

It’s perfect when it arrives.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement

A romantic fool

Some mystical jewel

Don’t play the notes

Play the meaning of the notes

‘Be sure you put your feet in the right place,then stand firm’-Abraham Lincoln

Waves out into the ocean

I see him from the lighthouse

A cave of melody

Mermaids sing to me

Thankyou for the gratitude

Thankyou for the grace

I call it the journey of sea glass

‘Daisies,like a million stars’-Maggie Ingall

Watch for the rainbow

You might see a double

Kissing is always

‘Comparison is the thief of joy’-Theodore Roosevelt

Coloured smoke heaven

‘A friend is the hope of the heart’-Anon

Music all day long

‘Taking joy in life,is a woman’s best cosmetic’-Rosalind Russell

The raspberry colour

Heaven is all around,

If we have eyes to see it

To Xmas peace

‘Christmas ,is love in action’-Dale Evans Rogers

Holidays

The blue serenity of the sky

It’s close to midnight

I just want to take flight

I used to dance under the lights

Now I have voices,my memories are wiped

It’s like everyone is flowering

And I am weathering away but

With a smile

I will grow old

Infinitely suffering

He still keeps muttering

‘The same heart beats in every human breast’-Matthew Arnold

The feeling stirs again

Tomato soup!

One small seed

Made you believe

An Angel-guarded bed

Grandad said I have an angel-guarded bed

Nobler in the mind

Loyal for all time

I want someone

Sweet and cool

You are a caramel treat!

Holidays

Her wine the azure

‘The fall of kisses’-Elizabeth Barratt Browning

Who remembers the crisp layer on your sandwiche?!

Retro treats

A slow grace (Taking it slow in relationships)

Children’s book idea ‘An excited jump’ story about a frog

Children’s book idea ‘A magic mint’

The largest sandcastle

Who has the largest castle?

My little ‘custard pot’

Souls and casseroles

Love me back

Save me from attack

Save me from the pack

Let’s travel the map

And kiss on tap!!!!!

Looking for some sparkling lyrics

Looking for some sparkling lyrics

Dreaming of a trip to Egypt

I really would like to be ripped and totally fit

Play the piano like magic

Go online and get those hits,getting them gripped

The best notes

My heart dotes

The best jokes

My heart emotes

Christmas time

Listen to the church bell chime

Tuck into fine food and wine

Thank God for being kind

‘The fire in my eyes’-Maya Angelou

‘Poppies mouths of red’-A.C.Swinburne

When you feel like you have a flowing river behind your eyes

When you feel like the blackest cloud in the sky

When you feel like everyone you love in your life is saying goodbye

Find somewhere quiet to cry

Try and see the rainbow

Pray to your guardian Angel

Forget about the rainfall

Life can be a little less painful

If you listen to the birds call

Continue to follow your dreams

And life goals

The meadows,the lanes

The fire in my eyes

Shore to shore,starlit bay

‘Little cries fluttered into the curtains’-Ted Hughes

‘The past is another country,

We don’t live there anymore,

We left it all behind us,

New pathways to explore’-Iris Hesselden

‘The calling bird at early dawn,

Rainbow’s pastel light,

A field of gently waving corn,

The sunsets flame at night’-Elizabeth Gozney

‘Even though love might be universal

It is also endlessly individual and unique’-Anon

‘A blaze of fruit blossoms’-Anon

Cures,on watch

Love is ever

‘Some people fall and let it stop them.

Others turn it into a part of their dance’-Anon

Letters,treemail

Letters, treemail

Holidays?Beauty is there

Where will I find true love?

God give me a sign,a dove

When will I stop feeling scared?

Will the truth finally be aired?

Echoes and ripples on the water

‘The musical rain’-Walt Whitman

‘In the calm and cool of the daybreak’-Walt Whitman

‘The echo of sunset’-Walt Whitman

The soothe of waves in the bedroom

Children

Sweet scented and growing

Christmas?

And all I peace

‘Tomatoes hanging like small red globes’-Gary Soto

In the dark of a closet

Secretly eating wotsits!

Rains of a thousand years

‘What fire shines inside her’-Gary Soto

‘A great sigh of steam’-Gary Soto

Cute boxed raisens

The nightclub

A fire,a glow inside

‘The orange wheel of heat’-Grace Paley

I am unconnected

Lord,save my soul

‘The evening star is a punctual gem’-Anon

Australia?

Bushes of that magic land?

‘Electric blossoms’-David Gascoyne

‘Flavours of childhood’-John Burnside

Dreaming of a distant land

Don’t know where

Come under the umbrella fern?

‘A cappaccino with the froth still on it,

A double sonnet’-Alan Jenkins

There shared spirit

There shared beliefs

An anchor forever

‘Gold onions rooted in the sky’-John Updike

Your position in the universe?!!!

‘The still-humming chords’-John Updike

A dawn good try

Office blooms

‘A lilac and cream and pink self-esteem’-John Updike

Life

You told me there would be many doors

You told me people would be loved and adored

But all I found were the sharpest claws

People being cruel and breaking laws

You told me I could travel the world

You told me I was the prettiest girl

But all I found were rotten pearls

Bathwater swallowing me as it swirled

You told me I would meet my prince

You told me I would find my province

But I hated having my hair rinsed

I hated people’s ‘fat hints’

You told me I would find someone good

You told me I would find a bud

But all I did was worry,and

Come home hurt and bloody

You told me music would be my quest

You told me I would be the best

But all I found was laughter and jest

My life was a teary mess

An awful test

You told me I would like school

You told me I would find a jewel

But all they said was I was uncool

Standing over-weight by the swimming pool

You told me God would look after me

You told me to invite my friends for tea

But I came home with scrapped knees

And unsightly bleeds

You told me to hold on to my dreams

Forget about those that were mean

So I just watched ‘The A Team’ and

Felt the sunbeam

Pretty money

Pretty money

‘Of a golden hurt’-Gwendolyn Brooks

A venture into rhyme

Peace time

Fucking alone

The smoke of the campfire

Disappears into the sky

The many ways of strength

All people think about love

A fine poem or phony poem?

The universe of poetry is the universe of

Emotional truth

The use of truth is its communication

Art is action

‘Naked:and there is a beginning like the beginning of a dance’-Muriel Rukeyser

The music of the poem

The image

The word

The note

Full of song

Full of storm

And a hood of words

The heart and hero

‘I am a dance’-Muriel Rukeyser

Strong light

They can see our following eyes

Dark poetry

Buried poetry

They were wordless and danced

The texture of song

I can feel you

A young art

Imagination finds and combines

He kissed me and gave me a music rose

The role of memory ,Acting

A child full of beans

New York is a part of you

I have endless traveling dreams

The keyword ‘protection’

‘The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking

Completeness’-Muriel Rukeyster

Holidays

People go to places of truth and healing

The tree people,The Tassie Tree People

The divine light

My heart crackled in the flames

The star-littered lawn in sunlight

Sky of white paper

‘My God,my leaf’-Louise Erdrich

‘Powerful red blossoms’-Louise Erdrich

Orange-tip butterflies

Please sit on my hand

She’s a wild carrot under the ground

Love opens the door,I cry

‘The best lyrics seem to be the poet’s natural speech’

-Daily Chronicle

Issues and blues

Issues and blues

Obese news

The hands of time

I need to climb

Just tell me everything is going to be fine

The one I love will be mine

Treble clef falls over!

Apple falls into segments

A segment of the Big Apple

Fluently graceful

Proud songster

Smiling into the fire

So lucky

So warm

‘Raise your head and look around

There’s more than the one you grieve’-Charles Grisham

Clouds into the night

‘Rainbows oiling the rivers quay’-Graham Mort

‘A scene forever’-Marilyn Hacker

Angel of September guiding me to school

Angel of September

Grandma’s birthday

‘In the custardy light of a morning?’-Rebecca Perry

I want to cry,to pass away

I never win at love

Lust to dust

Just to mistrust

Necklace and keyring idea

Mini Heinz soup,ketchup,beans on a chain

Coke cans,tree bark,purple pearls

Toy idea

Toy that laughs when you tickle it!

Monopoly pieces on a necklace!

Painting pinecones

Aged 6

The day,that Santa comes on his sleigh

The day, my neighbours invite me to play

The day,I am saved by mummy and daddy

The day,we get to go on holiday

The day,these voices fade away

The day,I am finally happy

Network peace

Angel Fable

Thinking about the boy in the stable

Thinking how he could make me feel,

Like a Tower of Babel

I want to be in your cradle

I want us to stay here,all night,warm and sexual

Music in the blood

Years of circles in the wood

I can feel my eyes flood

Some are evil,some are good

Some will tell you

You’re an ugly nude

They will destroy you

You need soul food

Bleeding flower

He wasn’t a vower

He was only interested in power

We talked for hours and felt like towers

But we didn’t make it through the showers

‘The bubble of song’-Gwendolyn Brooks

Sunday eyes in church

‘Thy children’s air’-Gwendolyn Brooks

‘The fall crisp comes’-Gwendolyn Brooks

Flowerbeds

‘Flowerbeds drowned ‘-Sterling A Brown

                                                      

‘Snow bloomed’-Sterling A Brown

Eating for company

Looking for someone with a protective nature

‘The spark of electric soup’-Anon

‘In the same orbit’-Robert Murray Smith

‘The realm of sensation’-Tom Quigley

Quiet time

The rhythms of the poems

Eating a chocolate orange

Bridesmaids in creams and yellows

‘Turn on your beautiful eyes’-Carol Ann Duffy

‘Stay sane,stay strong’-Charles Grisham

Flowers and silence

‘Flower creatures flashed and shimmered there’-Robert Hayden

The glorious one

A lilac limo

A shining, a summoning of love

The Holy Bible

The wise and the good

The song that found a path (drawing of path)

Song and cry

Song and flight of bird

The Lake is my friend

Have a listen

‘Not a single sparkle’-Tamia Phillipines

You pretty page

I want to write a novel!

In the faces of flowers

We were together long-ago

A kind face

A kind place

‘Looking for that foxhole in someone’s heart’-Eileen Manassian

Bonfire choir

Treacle toffee

Mittins and hot coffee

Fireworks above me

He whispers that he loves me

Wavy hair,dreamier?

I hate my body

I hate my marks

I hate the fat

I hate my shape

I need an hourglass figure and a boatload of love

Ocean cry

An ocean behind my eyes

Treacle toffee

I have nobody

I feel sick

I feel tricked 

Is it

How I look?

How I cook?

How I fuck?

How I hook?

Take me to bed now

Like something racy you’ve read now

I want to spend the whole of the night with you

Light up the entire room

Rainfood

Flamefood

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden

Walking through the street of Harlem

Jazz clubs

NY buzz

The wrongs of food?

You have to move

A tragic mood

The tears are falling when I am in the nude

People are whispering

They want to be rude

A lesson in depression

There is no sun and you feel forgotten

You feel rock bottom

Everything is black ,there are no stars in the sky

You walk alone and you want to die

Bullies and exams,clothes and ‘going out’ plans

I was always left out and praying that suddenly I would be cared about

Watching ‘The A Team’

I remember singing the theme

Mum used to make us burgers and

Drinks from a soda-stream

Good always won in the end

I wanted them to be my friend

Nobody died and Mr T was knocked out

Everytime they had to fly!

Let’s go under the covers

Tender lovers

Knight rider was the same

I wanted a ride,Kitt was his name

I wanted a car that could talk too!

That car was alive and it came to the rescue!

Then there was the Gladiators,another bites the dust!

The Wolfe is the only one I remember but it was

Saturday night with a crust!

A diamond in a cave

Blind date

What would I say?

I am a stretchy man

Flexible,Bright,

And I like to make people smile!

It hurts that you’re not in my life

But at least I don’t have to listen to your lies

Even though my heart used to magnetise to you

I didn’t know you had a girlfriend too

I know you used to call

But I don’t think that you would catch my fall

I saw you rise,it made me cry

I thought I had your love ,your soul

Make your cash

Make your splash

Please don’t turn me into ash

Make your mark

Make your spark

Please don’t break my heart

Make your love

Make your buds

Please don’t say I’m not enough

Make your entrance

Make your acceptance

Please don’t leave me in too much silence

Perfect love

That’s worth it love

Protecting,collecting love

‘Silver liquid drops’-Langston Hughes

Autumn thought

‘Flowers are happy in summer

In autumn they die and are blown away

Dry and withered,

Their petals dance on the wind

Like little brown butterflies’-Langston Hughes

‘A necklace of stars’-Langston Hughes

The Poem

‘The poem with this music is complete’-Claude McKay

Jasmines

It’s a small world

I decided to take a trip to Australia

I was tired of feeling like a failure

My uncle had built a house in Tasmania

I wanted to go walkabout,find bush tucker and dahlia

Some of it was quite familiar

I walked around the market for memorabilia

They still had Special K,Walkers crisps, cadburys factory and Heinz

The kangaroo’s had massive behinds!

I went to an aborigine art gallery,and who should I bump into but Valerie!

I hadn’t seen her in 20 years,we went to school together and

Reminisced with beers!12000 miles away from home!

‘My own sailor hat’

When I was three I had my own sailors hat

There is nothing more cool than that!

My grandad took me to New York

And he showed me where the Titanic would have port

He took me in a Macy’s store

And held my hand on the escalators

He took me to see the statue of Liberty

And taught me all it’s history

We went up the Empire State building

But at first I was unwilling

I looked up at Times Square

Yellow cabs were beeping everywhere

The lights were so bright,I dreamed I could write

For Broadway,for film and stay up all night!

I wanted to sing my little heart out

There were lot’s and lot’s of street performers about

Then we went to McDonalds

It was my favourite place in the world

The weather was really,really hot

We had snowcones and lollypops!

We went into an art gallery and then

The New York State library,borrowing

We watched New Yorkers on the street arguing

The steam rose from above us

The hotels went up so high

This was 1983,I jumped up and down excitedly

Grandad took my picture with a polaroid

I wondered if I would see an asteroid

When I got home I made the New York skyline with

Stickle bricks,

I dreamed of returning and counted the minutes

Maybe I could go on a sleigh with St Nick!

Grandad was in the navy all his life

He showed me the ocean,the horizon and

How to fly a kite

I miss my Grandad

Sweets,chocs,nuts

Is it better than self-harming?

Some people are covered in cuts

Or pluking their guts

Does it feel like no one gives a fuck?

Is that why they mess with their looks?

I eat because life gets too much

It’s an emptiness,a loneliness

A neglect of love

Someone stop me ,I don’t want to self-destruct

The clouds are gathering,I need some luck

The perfect lips

The perfect bum

What are we really running from?

My secret is…….

Not ready to tell!

The World when I’m asleep

Has Angels protecting me from creeps

The World when I’m asleep

Has stars that light up my street

The World when I’m asleep

Has flowers tickling me feet

The World when I’m asleep

Has fairies that stop me weep

Thoughts on tonight

Thoughts on tonight

Alone,they have all gone

And I’m not so young anymore

I have lost my waist and my core

I need an open door

Find someone on the dancefloor

And kiss me pure

I know it’s my weight

You say,I have left it too late?

I am in tears everytime I wake

Thoughts for the week

I must feel chic and find my peak

Find a man I can keep

A man that lets me speak

Gives me courage to take a leap

I just don’t want to be weak and let the devil reap

I don’t want to weep or be dragged down deep

‘Nothing as romantic as a view of Lady Liberty’-Sarah Crossan

‘Little red rivers’-Sarah Crossan

Around the sugar bowl

I guess that why I was without anybody in PE

Humiliated in the changing room

‘Cold glitter of light’-John Crowe Ransom

Voices stop the twitter,I don’t understand

A danger of friendship?

‘The admirable peach’-John Crowe Ransom

‘Frost,and a leaf has quit the tulip tree’-John Crowe Ransom

‘Your orange cup’-John Crowe Ransom

‘Marvels of oranges’-John Crowe Ransom

Cleaning out the clutter

Easy on the butter

Will I be a mother?

Will I find a lover?

Giving my stuff to the charity shop

There’s so much rubbish

I am in shock

Music fills the house

I feel like a collecting mouse

Just one drop of stardust

Is there really a time for us?

I’ve decided to look at the stars

I wish I could walk on mars

Put the stars in a vase

It feels like I am behind bars

Watching passing cars

Love me,

Where will I find love?

Will it be found in a good man?

Will it be found in a baby’s hand?

Will it be in a scented flower?

Will it be found chatting on the phone for hours?

Will it be in a kiss?

Will it be found in one last wish?

Dreaming of safety and getting home

An old-time dress in a museum

‘The moon beams kissin’-Claude McKay

I want to sleep like a fairy dream

‘My heart then dances’-Claude McKay

‘As in a dream I stand and gaze

At Broadway shining Broadway ,only

My heart,my heart is lonely’-Claude McKay

Words that touch you all over

‘Lifted heart of mine’-Claude McKay

The Truth is .....

The truth is….I want me back

Getting thinner?

What’s for dinner!!!

Cause you gave me all your love

And it turned to rain and fog

I will rise and go,said the ocean

Feathers kissing the ground not making a sound

I curl up and sleep,autumn roars

‘Trees trial their skirts at the river edge’-John poetry class

Walkers linger and chat

I just want it to stop

Too generous with chocolate

How do I say it

You know that I pray it

How do I tell you

I breathe and I smell you

My breasts swell around you

As I dress,I want you

But I do not want to haunt you

The piano is singing

The love of a good man

Has he got time for you?

Does he come and find you?

Stars turning into lights directing

Like an airport runway

I want to feel strong

Eat right,travel

And do it on my own

Go across the pond

And feel forever young

I want to dream a song

Sit on an amethyst throne

I need to belong

I want to get away from the voices

Get a little sun,meet someone

I want to be well enough to have a baby

I want to be kissed a hundred times daily

I want to see purple in the sky

I don’t want the rain,I don’t want to sigh

I want to sing like an owl flies

When I sleep I don’t rest

I am a lone bird looking for a nest

I am in hell,it’s a test

I can hardly breathe

I am being pressed

Every sunset

I hold out my hand

I have this image of us in the sand

Every sunrise

I can feel the warmth on my eyes

You whisper words and my heart just flies

 I want to be the girl that sings

Spreads her wings

I want to be the girl that slims

And actually wins

Instead,I am paying for my sins

Looking up at sequins

Dreaming of fountains and mountains

I imagine being a heroine

Carrying a suitcase of emotion

Thoughts on today

Still dreaming and feeling dead

I am alive,I am not dead

Still praying and staying tough

Please take me out of these cuffs

Ask yourself

Is it love or is it stuff?

Is it just attraction and looking buff?

Is he enough?