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I thank thee for the sun
It brightens up the darkest day
I thank thee for the rain
It feeds  trees plants and flowers in our terrain
I’m grateful for it all
The wind may call
We have it all in our summer

But in the winter
I thank thee for the snow
Because you know
I love it so

An Autumn breeze is so nice
When the golden leaves just show
And when they drop
A carpet of golden leaves will grow

But spring is beautiful
When the little lambs are born
Bouncing in the fields
Together but never fore-lawn
63 · Oct 2020
Little lights
From pink to purple to blue
To green to red
The little lights are a delight
Flashing on and off
Just those little lights
Brighten up our dark dark nights!
63 · Jul 2020
Don't
Don't let the sun shine down on you,
Don't let the rain wet you through,
Don't let the world bring you down,
Don't let trivia ruin your life,
Don't let the little things get to you!
62 · Jun 2020
Phenomenon
Phenomenon

Phenomenon
No mystery
Phenomenon
History
Phenomenon
Existing
Phenomenon
The answer
It’s a phenomenon!
62 · Jan 8
Freezing
The ground was all iced over this morning
They say it’s nought degrees
The sky was red and beautiful
but to dread,
red sky in the morning is said
to be a warning
But no puddles just ice
Nice
The pavements were all twinkling
such a beautiful sight ,
Jack Frost has been busy all night!
62 · Dec 2020
It’s a Sunday morning
It’s a Sunday morning
There’s not a soul about
It’s quiet and peaceful
I don’t hear the kiddies shout
The silence is just wonderful
The stars are still out
The sky is black as night
There’s no sunrise yet
It’s Too early yet alright !
I hear an owl a hooting
He’s looking for a bite
I saw a star a shooting
It’s like the middle of the night
But it is early morning
And theres not a single light!
Everyone’s a-sleeping
Because it’s a Sunday morning,
And so we know it’s quite alright!
62 · Oct 2020
Not right!
I feel that uneasiness
The plethora isn’t right
Like when something is going to happen
Sometime in the night

There are people close to me
Who are not very well
That feeling I have and I can see
Somethings a foot I can tell

There’s a deep dark sadness
Deep within my heart
Something not right I guess
Well I’ll play the part

I’ll wonder and wait
Then I’ll see my fait!
62 · Jul 2020
I Dream of the Sea
I dream
Of Living by the sea
It would be heaven for me
Sitting in the window
Having a cup of tea
Watching the waves splash and roll
Looking at the line on the horizon
Dividing the sky and sea
Watching white horses when the sea is rough
And on a hot sunny day
Seeing the azure blue sea
And the deep blue sky
Would be such a treat to an open eye
And to take it all in
I wouldn’t have to try!
Being by the sea
I can hear the waves
And smell the salty sea
Its such a wonderful feeling
A feeling of nature and being so free!
62 · Jul 2020
Sun and Rain
How could we just complain
about the sun and rain
when we need them both so much
to keep us all alive as such
but there is no equilibrium to gain
as we just get far too much rain
and when the sun comes out
its rays they seem to pout
but how can we complain?
62 · Jan 19
Writing poetry
There are so many little things in life
That make life worth living
Writing poetry and lines
Is just about divine

It’s a place you can express
The words that are on your mind
And even write that fiction
Of any other kind

But writing about our lives
The good the bad
And those that help us strive
And the things that make you sad

Poetry Can sometimes make you cringe
And others will think you’re off your hinge
But I don’t mind it’s poetry of kind
And still it’s good to get it off your mind!
61 · Sep 2020
You’re amazing!
You are amazing
You make the sun shine
Warming my heart
You make me feel
So good, so real!

And when the stars are out at night
You make them twinkle shining bright

You are a breathe of fresh air
You have a good heart
And really care!
You are such a good soul
And you’re very loyal!
61 · Oct 2020
Exciting Nature !
It’s the Excitement of nature
When a salmon jumps in the river
When a squirrel climbs a tree
When a gaggle of geese
Fly over me!

And when the stars at night twinkle and shine
As the bats fly by after nine
The night is dark but all is fine
Nature is just so divine!
61 · Dec 2020
Snow
Snow snow
We’ve got snow
Thick and lovely
Flakes coming down
But it’s wet under foot
Will it stick
I just don’t know
Will it be white all over
Snow snow snow
All slushy
Sleet sleet sleet
Just wet and slushy
Where’s my snow
I just don’t know!
60 · Dec 2020
When the earth moves
When the earth moves
The body tingles all over
Like when the earth quakes
The body shakes
An explosion of organisms
The body breaks
And when it reforms
And the earth remakes
And the earth now feels good
A climatic experience felt
Making your body just melt!
This can be viewed in different ways!
60 · Jan 3
Early Rise
Early rise
On a dark dark day
Stars in the skies
But a sky so black and grey

A freezing morn
As breaks the dawn
As a new day is born
Ice on the lawn

Snow on its way
So they say
Tomorrow and today
And there it will lay

It’s so cold out there
Good to stay inside
You can smell the air
So go snug up and hide
60 · Jun 2020
Words can hurt
Words can hurt!
Words are powerful things
They can cut you up
And chop you down
And stab you deep inside
And no matter what you do
You want to run and hide!
Someone who used to be a friend rang my husband up after he’d sent what we thought was a lovely birthday pressy to say how much she hated it! That’s not what friends do!!!!!
60 · Jan 25
Behind closed doors
Always look super slim
neat and tidy slick and spam
Wear fitted clothes tight to the skin
Clear the kids toys up before he came in
Be at his beck and call
But that’s not all
Yes sir, no sir
He didn’t care
His other women
So glad they were there
Big relief when he wasn’t here
Divorced at twenty three
Forty years ago
Left with two babies
Them and me!
Behind closed doors
You couldn’t see the sores!

Now I learn
With Much discern
A friend has been going through
Just like What I went through
Behind closed doors!
You couldn’t see the sores!

Well she’s a mess
I say, I bless
Emaciated
Confused
Battered and bruised
No one knew
Behind closed doors
You can’t see the sores!

His control
He did foil
But she always looked so good
Behind closed doors
You can’t see the sores!

Why would we suspect?
but I guess we should
It all came to no good!
Our old friend our bud
We tried to pull her up, but Twas no good
She’s a broken woman
A damaged soul
Behind closed doors
You just can’t see the sores!
So sad our friend has been to hell and back for many years but no one knew as it was all  behind closed doors
60 · Oct 2024
Not Knowing
Not knowing
It’s the not knowing that is scary
Sometimes it’s best not knowing
Am I being lairy?
Is it better knowing ?
I guess choice can just vary
To what we need to know
What we want to know
And what we will never know!
Not knowing!
59 · Dec 2020
How lucky am I
How lucky am I
As I looked to the sky
Twas five in the morning
Without any warning
I saw a meteorite shower
And again within the hour!

I thought at first
It was a shooting star
My excitement burst
When I realised what they really are

No matter what
What a beautiful sight
How lucky am I
It was a sheer delight!
59 · Jul 2020
Rain ☔️ Again
A bien, another wet day,
Pluit  a verse!
So the French would say,
Feeling the raindrops upon my skin,
Trickling gently down my arm
Feels like a feather as it touches
Down to my fingertips through my palm
What a sensational feeling is the rain
As it touches I feel no pain
As I drip warm water To the ground
More and more raindrops fall
As They climber down without a sound
Feeling soaked but that’s not all
The clothes on me cling
Wet to the skin
Time to get dried off at home
Out of the rain, let it all drain!
59 · Oct 2020
Voulez vous?
Voulez vous?

What do you want?
What do you need?
De moi?

When all I have is love!
To give!
De moi!
59 · Dec 2020
Powerful words
Powerful words
How powerful spoken words alone can be ?
Not to mention written words!
Given the intonation of the words that’s said!
And even How the words
Are phrased, portrayed and paraphrased!
And what their meaning is,
They can be immensely beautiful ,
But they can be very, very sad
And hurtful, even bad!

So think before you say something !
And try to say something nice
Each and every day!
To keep the woes at bay!
And make someone a happy day!!!!!
59 · Jun 2020
Retirement
Everyday is a ‘Groundhog Day’
We get up in the morning
And go for a walk
It’s just another day

We do the household chores
Just as the day before
We sit relax and have a cuppa tea
It’s just another day

Then shopping and cooking
Magazine and book looking
Sitting and snoozing
It’s just another day!

Theresa Hartley-Mace
Semi retired! Write this before Covid
59 · Jun 2020
Ghosts
Shadows on the wall
Orbs floating freely
Ghosts not ghouls
Touched me just nearly

Who are they?
What do they want?

Feeling their presence
I know that they’re there
If only I could help them
I do really care

Is it my family?
Is it a friend?

If only I could hear them
And they hear me
We could talk together
And help them be free!
59 · Aug 2020
Calm and relaxed
Here
There
Everywhere
But here and now
Peace Perfect peace
Calm and relaxed
Relinquished
Resigned
There
Here
59 · Aug 2020
So tired
Why do I get so tired?
It’s not that my brain isn’t wired !
It’s working well so I can tell!
It’s the body, it cant understand I’m not twenty one any more!
I always say at thirty you’re in your prime,
Enjoy your life and you’ll be fine!
Forty they say life begins, I remember for my sins, fast car, surfing the waves, having fun enjoying my days!
At Fifty the aches and pains set in, slowing down and enjoying a gin!
Now I’m in my sixties oh dear, my worst fear, now comes the ails and pales, aches and pains, breaks and bruises, blisters from my shoesies, stiffness and fatigue!
Looking forward to back to back cruises,
I’m not going in a care-home, oh no!
I don’t think I’ll make the eighties though!
Looking forward to retire, slowing down,
and doing just what I want to do or not do!
Ageing  is a reality! But gotta keep going!
59 · Oct 2020
Winter already?
That grey sky
Oh my oh my
Could mean rain
Not rain again
There were  puddles this morning
When the day was dawning
Everything was wet wet wet
But that’s what you get
When the rough weather is here
It’s that time of year
When the leaves have fallen
And the trees are becoming bare
The wind is howling
The temperature has dropped
Oh my goodness it’s winter
Already I am quite shocked!
58 · Jun 2020
From where you come
A mother is so special
she gave us our life
mum is the ultimate
the ultimate of life!
58 · Dec 2024
Our Winter Garden
The holly bush has a few red berries left
Where the robins visit from their nest
And enjoy the suet ***** and the dried up worms I’ve left

The squirrel has gone no where to be seen and has taken the coconut half
To feed his family I guess!

Oh yes but it’s quiet, peaceful and still in our winter garden!
58 · Dec 2024
Only love
Be careful what you say and give
Only love
Be careful what you do and give
Only love
Be careful how you react and give
Only love
Be careful what you wish for and give
Only love
Be careful what you think and give
Only love
58 · Dec 2020
Meteorite shower
I thought I saw a shooting star
I made a wish
Then I saw more

I thought oh wow
A shooting star
Then I saw more

I kept wishing
Upon that o shooting star
Then I saw more

And someone told me
It was a meteorite shower
Anyway that’s ok
What a wonderful site
Then I saw more!
58 · Oct 2024
Dying and Gone
Life is not immortal
Life ends and we leave through the portal
But we all want to hold on
We miss all those who have gone
And departed from this world

It’s a frightening concept
But we have to accept
We don’t know what’s out there
Belief helps to bear
Our fate and our fear !
57 · Jul 2020
Cool
Massage my back
Rub my feet
Oh what the heck
Don't squeeze my neck
But use the ice
That's very nice
Relieve the stress
But not the dress
I'm about to go to sleep
So relaxed, I'm in a lovely little heap!
57 · Oct 2020
That’s me
I’ve been told
I’m Just like
A nutty professor
I have brains
But no sense
I’m disorganised
All mixed up
Like a stew
I have the meat
I have the potatoes
I have the carrots
But where’s the barley?

I’m fun
A nutty nanny
So I’ve been told
I’m the one
Where the E numbers come from
And the colouring books
The bath time ducks
The paint
And the bubbles
For fun
At bath time!
And giggles!

I’m the one
Who walks the dog
Actually
No
She
Walks me
She decides
Where we go
When we go
How far
How long
And
When we go home!

I know
That’s me
57 · Aug 2020
My Three Apples
This morning I was sad to see
that my pride and joy
My Red apple one of three
Had been half eaten
So I picked off the other two For me
And left the eaten one for nature to devour!

‘‘Tis the wasps
My husband says
They seem to like my apples
They’ve been nibbling at them for days!
The silence is over whelming
You could cut it with a knife
It’s never really that quiet
There’s something not quite right
There’s something alooming
I don’t quite know what might
Everything is still not moving
Morning is coming day time from night

Looking through the window pane
I see what’s caused this silence
There’s quite a lot of snow
They say that can cause the quietness
Where everywhere is white
What a pretty picture
And What a pretty sight!
57 · Dec 2024
It’s mine
It’s mine
I have long desired
It was meant to be
Just for me
It’s mine

It’s mine
But that’s fine
It’s mine
None else’s
But just for me

It’s mine!
57 · Jan 6
Dreams
My dreams are so vivid
They’re like a story to me
Sometimes it’s a wonky house
And then I’m by the sea
I’m swimming around
Or climbing the rocks
Or sat in the sand
Filling my chops
Seagulls fly by
My pasty catches their eye
They swoop down
But ha just too late
I’ve eaten the plate
Then I’m lost
Looking for the way
But hey it doesn’t matter
Because it fills the day!
I go shopping but hmmm
The shops are just Wierd
How they just appeared
Up and down steps
Doors open and shut
Try find the shop I want
Then the film just says cut!
56 · Oct 2020
Why?
Why
Why do I feel
Like times passing me by?
Why do I feel
Like I could just cry
Why do I feel
You might leave me and die
Why do I feel
Low and not high
Why do I feel
I’m living a lie
Why do I feel
Time is getting nigh
Why do I feel
I have to sigh
Why do I feel?
56 · Nov 2020
Patience for you
I’ve always been a patient soul
But with you
It took the toll
My empathy was swamped
The vortex became a hole
And I was falling through
But I have been resurrected
By the many who have helped
And I’m back to being that patient soul
And for you
I’m filling up that hole!
56 · Oct 2020
Time goes too fast
Why does time go so very fast
When you’re having fun it just doesn’t last
When the sun is shining and the air is clear
Down comes the rain oh yes it’s here
When that cake you’re eating tastes so good
It gone within minutes as I know it should
When I think back twenty years
Of my youth it brings me tears
And I think forward in only ten years
I have my upmost fears
I’ll be in my seventies!
56 · Oct 2020
Future
Look to the future
And what do I see
I see retirement
Looking at me
Sad to relate
Times passing by
Wishing it gone
I say with a sigh!

Then what will I do!
I’ll come back to life
My gardening for true
Walking the dog without any strife
Cooking and cleaning
Writing and dreaming
And of course
More sleep!
56 · Jul 2020
Look at that sky!
I woke up this morning
To another day dawning
I Looked at that sky
With a sad tainted eye
Is it going to rain ?
Or are we gonna die?
dark closing in as day goes by
It’s so incredibly grey
Another wet windy day
The wind is roaring
Like an angry voray
It’s now pouring!
What can I just say?
55 · Jul 2020
The waiting room
Sat.....
Waiting and wandering
Time is ticking
The pendulum swings
Bouncing on the springs
Someone calls a name
Next please!
Up now standing
Off we go!
55 · Nov 2020
So tired
Why
So tired
Need
To sleep
Can’t
Keep awake
I fall
Asleep
So deep
I snore
And sleep
A little more!
55 · Jun 2020
Summertime
Summertime

It’s coming summer and hot today now its June
By the way!
I sit I relax
People are mowing their lawn
I sneeze
The sun is shining
It’s nice and hot
I soak up the sun
a sheer delight
I tan
of that I’m a fan
I chill
That I can fore-fill
I sleep
For a little-while
I smile
It’s summertime!
55 · Dec 2024
Write more
I love poetry
I want to write more
Writing is just
Something I adore
A few lines
Maybe more
Can be less
But yes
Oh bless
Can be short
Could be tort
With rhythm and rhyme
No matter what
It’s just divine!
And all just self taught!
55 · Jan 8
Losing my best friend
We had so much fun
All those years ago
And as you know
I love you so

I know we’re not immortal
We all have to go sometime
But sadly we now know
Soon you will go

Off To the beautiful palace in the sky
Where the good go to rest
The big c has spread
Soon you’ll be gone

We’ve just got to face
And With my arms I embrace
All that you are and were so brave
You’ll never be forgotten

You’ll always be in my heart
We will all miss you
So now I shall kiss you
And bid you a farewell

You’ll take a piece of my heart
When you depart
Please wait for me
In time I will follow

And we’ll meet up there
On a twinkly star
High in the sky
When I eventually die

I love you !
I will miss you!
My friend is battling with cancer and sadly losing the battle she’s so brave bless her!
55 · Jun 2020
Where does time go?
Where does time go
I really don’t know
Time goes so fast
Where are we going
Where will we be
How long  will it last
Where will we end up
What will we do
Leaving the past behind
Looking to the future
The future you’ll find
Will be here anyway
There’s no way to rewind!
55 · Nov 2020
Tree respect
I ask
How difficult
A task
It would be
To grow a tree

Did you know
A tree has needs
Like you and me

And their roots
connect
I believe that’s
Correct

And they can live
Many years
Watching us all
Come and go

A tree
Is so special
Special
To me!
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