Selection of Poems: Poetic Visions of Moving Experiences

By Riemkje Jensma and Rosemary Mayo-Franklin

The poems cover a period from 1962-2009 and the subjects are love, war, natural disasters, nature,
animals, obituaries,adventure,fairy tales, honeymoons,angels,smugglers,crocodiles and weird creatures. Some poems are in rhyme and some in free verse. All are memorable and inspirational.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jan 27, 2010
• ISBN: 9781467879026

Riemkje Jensma

Rosemary Mayo-Franklin was born in Scotland, brought up in Holland and England, educated in state and private schools. Traveled round Europe in her teens and later to America and Australia. She studied Art, Greek and European history at the Open University and later Art and Aromatherapy. She is currently on a world tour promoting her book, making a film and reading her poems. Elaine Wood wrote this poem about her. When I think of you, Beaming with effervescent joy, I see someone, who has triumphed over life, For whatever its vicissitudes, none have stolen, your contagious capacity for wonder. Lately, blows of fate. have bent your bows, too unkindly, Yet even then, your dreaming heart goes on, longs for different lands, full of love adventure and passion, Of all the people I know,In the whole world,No one else retuns my gesture of affection. with such ready, childlike glee.

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First published by AuthorHouse 1/26/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4389-8008-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4389-8009-6 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-7902-6 (ebook)

Contents

FORWARD

The Aquarian

The Secret Of Our Souls

Day Trip To Brugge

Adventure

A Great Hero From Troy

The Last Farewell Prayer To Elaine King My Foster Mother

A Godmother’s Gift

A Long Journey

Arriva Bus

Art And Culture.

A Thought

Autumn Leaves

Bashing Conkers

Beauty And Sorrow

Bed Can Be A Lonely Place

Bedtime Story

Blind Man

Love Is Blind

My Bloody Poem

Breast Feeding

Courage

Breathe In Renewed Hope In Your Blood.

Conrado

Chess

Pelican

Children Of The Kalahari

Chinese Earthquake

China’s Olympic Games

The Journey

City Life

Cosmos Hunters

The Dancer

Dark Deeds In Devon

To Diana Queen Of Our Hearts

Divine Love

Do Not Disturb The Peace

Dolphins

Dreamer

Drops Of Rain

Elephant Heroics

Eternal Youth

Farewell Song To Edward

Message From Edward

Fingers And Toes

Floods

Florence

Flamenco Vibrations

For All The World

Heat Wave

I Can Not Be Parted

I Cannot Know You’re Pain

I Have Heard The Angels Sing

I Am Off To University

I Stand Alone

Full Moon Time

it’s a mighty good world after all

In A Welsh Valley

Isle Of White

Joy

Julia

Lady Godiva

Last Farewell To Travis Martin

Spring

Autumn

Love That Could Last

Lucia

March Hares

Mercy!

Melly’s Last Song

Mountaineers

Motherhood

A Day To Remember

My Cat

My Baby Cried

My Heart

Nymph Galatea

Oh Africa! My Africa!

Oh Gypsy Boy

Old Souls

Peace

Royal Ascot At York

Delightful Smells

Shores Of Sand

Snow White

Spring’s Arrival

Summer Rowing

Strange Creatures

Summer Sun

The Forest Of Dean

The Gardens Of Charity

Love Is

A Last Farewell Prayer To Elaine King My Foster Mother

The Giorgeone Tempest

The Daily Task

The Dragon’s Lair

The Poet And The Composer

The Fields Of Blood And Stones

The Living Moving Waters

The Tintagel Giant

The Holy Grail

Troy

It Was When You Loved Me

Unto Us The Christ Has Come

Waves

True Love

When Love Tiptoes In.

Whenever

Where The Water Falls

Whistling Wind

Why Am I So Smart

Why Don’t You?

Wild Flowers

Weird Creatures That Appear In The Half Light Time.

War Crimes

Winter Approaches

Woodlands

Canal

My Wish For The People Of This Earth

The Sun Who Would Not Rise

Truth

Beauty

Castles

Terror In A London Underground Train

To Be A Private Person

True Love

Poppies

Little Lady Jane

Ladybirds

Love Divine

The First Sign Of Spring

Thoughts During Advent

A Reflection On Love

Evening Prayer

Cruising

Where The Dragon Flies

The Quality Of Water

Falling Transparancies

Summer’s End

Weapons Of Mass Distruction

A Winter’s Morn

Honeymoon

An Untimely Quarrel

Upon The Fields Of Prussia

In The Mist

An Unwelcome Present

The Art Of Music

A Brief History Of Art

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Self portrait of rosemary Ann mayo franklin

FORWARD

Rosemary Franklin was born in Aberdeen on January the 25th 1944 to Riemkje Mayo. She and her two sisters Julia and Lucia were brought up by their mother. Rosemary spent part of her early childhood in Holland where she attended The Werkplats School. She also stayed for a short while in Leeuwarden, Friesland, and Holland. It was a realization that she shared the same birthday as Robert Burns that kindled an early interest in poetic writing. It helped her to believe, she was born to be a poet. Blessed with an intense curiosity in just about everything, as a result her life has been both interesting and rewarding.

As a child she was lucky enough to receive her education at The New School, Kings Langley, which is known for its thought provoking, creative and inspirational form of education. The Teachers work to the principles of the Austrian Philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Later she attended Michael Hall, another Steiner school in Forest Row.

At the age of eight she traveled alone from Holland to Letchworth Garden City where she attended Westfield Junior School, followed by Norton Road Secondary Modern and then St.Francis College, where she was taught by nuns. After long periods of separation her parents finally divorced when she was fourteen and soon after started working for Kayser Bondor in Baldock. She was promoted to costing clerk and moved to their Bond Street office in London, living in Earls Court during this period.

She left Kayser Bonder and began to study in order to reach a level to make it possible to gain entry to Trent Park Teachers Training College. Here she trained with view to becoming an art and drama teacher. At the age of. 23 she had a son Mark Alexander. .She later trained as an Art Therapist, with Frau Dr, Hauschka, in Boll, Germany. On completion of the course she worked for Hertfordshire County Council until the birth of her daughter Eleanor. More recently the poet studied Aroma therapy and Reflexology at Aylesbury College.

Rosemary decided to be a writer at the age of fourteen. Her first poems were written from 1962. The first part of Waves, which reads Waves lapping the trembling sand, rising and swelling on the waiting shore, and the Poem Rain which begins with The Heavens are pouring their sad goodness on the earth was written when she was 18.

This performing poet has read her work at a festival in Ipswich, and the Poetry club in the Browsers bookshop and cafe in Woodbridge. Rosemary regularly read her poems at the Rose and Crown and The Palace, Kings Langley during jazz, folk and rhythm and blues evenings. Following on from this she performed at The Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead and The Bluebell Cafe near the reservoirs, in Marswoth near Tring. She was invited by The International Society of Poets in July 2007 to compete for a prize and read her poems to an audience of 4000 people. Rosemary was given an award for an outstanding achievement in poetry with a crystal trophy of a hand holding a blue globe and a bronze medal from The International Society of Poetry

And was published in The International Who’s Who in Poetry 2007, published By poetry.com in their International Library of Poetry. She was also recognized by United Press as a talented and published in two of their anthologies.

The cover photograph was taken by A E Roberts LMPA with the assistance of his wife J

Roberts IBIPP who works from the TOP FLOOR STUDIOS, Quayside, Woodbridge, and Suffolk IP12 1BH TEL: [phone]r627. They were taken for Rosemary during a visit to Woodbridge to see her good friend Jan Moncrief (also a very talented poet) who started the poetry club at the Browsers Book shop and Cafe’ in Woodbridge. .

All the illustrations and the unnamed poems are by Rosemary Ann Mayo-Franklin

Rosemary’s poetry covers a wide range of subjects. She is equally at home whether writing about events, fleeting moments, memorable sightings, relationships,