Neil Granger’s Poetry Showcase
Parents
You gave me
The opportunities
To experience
The dreams
You have for me.
You both were there
When I began
My journey
To fulfil my destiny.
My heart like yours
You trained to love
The dreams of
A thousand symphonies
Calling for a world to be
At peace and harmony.
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Neil Andrew Granger
Inner beauty
You need to
Be going at
A snail’s pace
To discover how
Beautiful 1 am.
You may see
Me driving a
Fast car or
Travelling by tram.
It’s not my
Exterior but my
Heart, which beats
Faster whenever you
Hold my hand.
This is what
Defines me for
Who I am.
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Neil Andrew Granger
Halo
Girl when you
Wear your halo
As a necklace
It glitters and shines
Highlighting your face.
When you wear
Your halo for stilettos
You grow taller
Walking with grace
In every place.
I love it
When you bend
Your halo into a hop
Which twirls round
Your waist,
You’re the delight
Of my eyes
You’re my, favourite
Surprise.
You’re clothed in light
Whichever way
You wear it
By just being you.
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Neil Andrew Granger
Friend
You’re my sanctuary
When I’m weak.
You’re my temple
When you speak.
You encourage me
With your smile.
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Neil Andrew Granger
Eternal Beauty
The rose speaks
With the eloquence
Of a queen,
Consider my elegant
Beauty transforming
Earth to display
My living colour.
My reign may
Be an hour.
My scent in the
In the memory
Of a lover
Lasts, forever.”
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Neil Andrew Granger
A Mother’s delight
A mother’s creation
Is her celebration.
Her joy is boundless
On your graduation.
In each school
You have
Attended to this,
Never a call
Has gone amiss.
How true it is
That mothers
Hunger for news
Even of those
Courses we need
To redo.
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Neil Andrew Granger
Recognition
In this enchanted
Moment you offer
To me this
Part of you
When in nuptial
Bliss you took
Your first kiss
Your inner beauty
Shone in rays
About your face.
Still you give
Unconsciously
A gift time
Will never fade,
Lady your glow.
Coyright Neil Andrew Granger
Only to Know
Cherish someone today
don’t ler their
passing face fade
silently into yesterdays
shadows surely
the years lengthen
as over the lonely
fields remembering
nurture that sweet
tender bud until
it blooms in time
to yield a thousand fold
by the planting
ten thousand reaped
by its practicing
over the ripe
years remaining together
and the harvest
of two hearts
will be fulfilled
and overflowing in
the tenderness of knowing you
Neil Granger 17th June 2003
Let it Go
Let it go,
Don’t hold the
Hurt any longer,
Release it and
Your heart will
Grow stronger.
If your mind
Wonders over the
Dry land of
Parched dreams,
Receive the rain
That healing brings.
What is bottled
Up within you release;
Your true friends
Are waiting to bring
Succour and relief
As gifts of their
Love for you.
Neil Granger
Gracious Giver
Soul of generosity
Your Spirit gives
From the wealth
Within your heart.
A storehouse full
Of finest motives,
Priceless as the
Rare works of art.
From this well
Inside your being
A spring overflows.
Watering the tender
Plants that grow
Up beside you
They know of
Your compassion
And the great
GIVER also.
Neil Andrew Granger
Clean slate
When we give
Each other a
Clean slate mate,
We release ourselves
Of hate, bitterness
And regret.
We have the time
To embrace and
T’alk face to face
And share dreams
Which begin when we
Wipe our slates clean.
Neil Andrew Granger
Be a tree
A tree takes time to grow
This anyone would know.
Sometimes we feel that things
Should have been done yesterday
We would say to our dismay;
Think of that tree you see
Which experiences the seasons
Of winter, autumn, summer
And spring and each year
Of growth has its own
Special. ring recording the
Wet and dry who like us
Go through good and bad times
In this forest of humanity.
Neil Andrew Granger
Little Things
Just a heart beat away
Your hand touches mine.
In a crazy mixed up world
You make my eyes shine.
When you have been a heart
Beat away you have guided
Me through, Those times I
Am hurting just in the little
Things you do.
Neil Andrew Granger