Daphne Gulland `s Poems
I am very grateful to have been inspired to write many poems these last twenty years.
I would like to begin with my favourite poem: Listen to the Song of Your Soul. You can find this one and many others in my book, Salt Cross Poems, sold by Amazon worldwide. Enjoy!
LISTEN TO THE SONG OF YOUR SOUL by Daphne Gulland
Listen to the song of your soul,
Listen to the message you've never been told.
Days do come and days do go
Nights are long
And full of dreams
Reality is nothing
Like what it seems.
Your soul is there
To make you aware
Of another world
Seemingly far away
But yet
In a marvellous way
Close to you
A part of you.
You just have to
Listen to the song of your soul
Listen to the message you've never been told.
FLOWER MY GARDEN by Daphne Gulland
Flower my garden!
Hold back the swirl of passing time.
Let me lie in your welcome shade
And contemplate my future life
Surrounded by your beauty and serenity.
Flower my garden,
Garden of my life.
And the garden of my life replied:
'Dear Nature's child, so sweet and mild,
I cannot make time stand still,
That's not God's purpose or His will.
Dedicate your future years
To stamping out this Earth's tears.
And when your life is through and done
You'll come and join me in the rays of the sun,
Shining and smiling as my wife
Onto the garden of your life.'
Flower, flower, flower my garden,
Dearest garden of my life.
RIVER OF MY DREAMS by Daphne Gulland
River of my dreams flow on
Fill my world with your dainty song.
Tell me, should I buy this house?
And live here for the rest of my life?
Will it make me happy or sad,
Fill me with unspoken dread?
Or will I fall in love with it
And many hours enchanted sit
On the emerald-green and manicured lawn
Surrounded by flowers, wild or high-born.
Let the walls echo with my laughter and tears
May it be my fate to pass the years
Within this house, may it enchanted be,
River of my dreams, fulfil my destiny.
LOVE IN THE AUTUMN by Daphne Gulland
Leaves and flowers
In heaps and bowers.
How we love to see their colours,
Turning from white to red and pink and lilac.
There is no end to their manifold beauty.
In the eyes of the sun and the beams of its light,
There are many wondrous works of art,
Hidden away under clouds and trees,
Just waiting for us to arrive and see.
Innocent eyes so bright and blue
Darker eyes like almonds too.
What wonders there are for us to behold.
We look back and remember the
Yearnings of our soul
And laugh and sigh and laugh once more,
Our fingers gliding through the
Colours of love
Floating on the wings of a dove
FANTASY AND REALITY by Daphne Gulland
Guardian, guardian of my dreams
This is my world, this is how it seems.
Let me leave reality
And enter my own fantasy.
Please turn night into day
And let me dream my life away.
Ghosts and elves and angels too,
What I dream is up to you.
In my dreams I do transcend
Shifting sands to no man's lands.
Let me go slipping, sliding,
dimension-gliding
Deja-vu abiding.
Let me read the signs of the universe
And understand coincidence.
Guardian, guardian of my dreams,
Tell us how it really seems.
When I awake to the cold light of day,
I find my world in disarray.
What the hell and what the heck,
I want my dreams,
I want them back.
Guardian, guardian,
Do I abide in a valley of dreams?
Shall I stand down there and stare,
Wait till the truth be laid bare?
Or can I fly to the mountain top,
Then look down
And understand the lot?
MESSAGE FROM MERLIN by Daphne Gulland
Elephants and hyenas, albatrosses and pigs,
These are amongst my favourite things.
In the Himalayas where the snow does fall
I see the One who made them all.
How I long for times long ago
When I saw my enemy fail to show.
With fleeting glance and cowardly tail
He would inch his way back home again.
Now the time has come to say these words -
My greatest hope is they will be heard.
Elephants and hyenas, albatrosses and pigs,
All sit beside me in united grief.
'We must change our ways', our planet sighs.
Dear Mother Earth, our dearest friend.
The time has come to make amends
To live our lives in peace again.
When our planet spins and turns
We all do jump aside and hear
In vain and yet once more again
The wheels do screech and groan
For here is the message from Merlin:
Learn to love and find your peace
For once we succeed in that
Our Mother Earth will overcome
All pain and suffering and smile again.
CIRCLE OF STONE by Daphne Gulland
I’m standing here in my
Circle of stone
For this here is my
Spiritual home.
The waves do splash
And whip against the cliffs.
The winds do howl
And roar and wail.
I’m standing here in my
Circle of stone
For this here is my spiritual home.
The gulls do fly
Across the sky.
The deer do fleet
From tree to tree.
Life goes on
And on and on.
Kings and queens do come and go
But I stay here in my
Circle of stone
For this here is my spiritual home.
RED DRAGON TIME by Daphne Gulland
I’ve got Celtic blood in my veins
Flowing like water foaming out of the earth
Surrounded by air that is everywhere
I sit here waiting beside Merlin’s grave.
I’ve got dragon’s blood in my veins
It’s red and strong and gushes along
I rise and dive and glide along
Till I arrive at Avalon.
I’ve got Merlin’s blood in my veins
It’s filled with love from the stars above
It’s full of power and hope
And I see the phoenix rising from the flames
Which tells me Mother Earth will be happy again.
WALES by Daphne Gulland
Sparkling blue seas
And fluffy white clouds
High up on a hill
Surrounded by trees
A mighty magician once stood.
Merlin was his name
And his home was the wood.
It was a wild wood
And dangerous for his foe.
But for Merlin it was safe,
He knew where to go.
He is still there today
You just have to call him.
Show him respect
And deep love
For his trees
And he will transport you
Through the mists of time
To his famous stone circle
Where you may stand with him
And cast a spell
That with Mother Earth
All may be well.
LAND’S END by Daphne Gulland
Mighty waves crash against the rocks
Thunder fills the air
Lightning flashes in the sky
Black clouds go rolling by.
Then all is still
The air is clean
We creep out of our hidey-holes
And stand on the shore.
We look to the east
And we look to the west
Waves still crash against the rocks
But the thunder is there no more.
Land’s End, what mighty storms you have seen!
And you have survived them all.
Your fortitude fills us with hope.
We, too, shall live forever more.
THE WATERFALL by Daphne Gulland
Little drops do start to flow
And all the time do bigger grow
Bigger and bigger
Gaining power and strength
Just as they do now
So they did
A thousand years ago.
This waterfall
Is in a very secret place
In the middle of a beautiful wood.
Long, long ago
Merlin here with Arthur stood.
Druids teaching and learning
Their hearts filled
With love and yearning.
The waterfall watches them
And splashes on
Happy and carefree
Singing its song
As it gushes along –
Until the end of time.
FLOWERS AND TREES by Daphne Gulland
Flowers, brought forth by
Mother Earth,
Miniature works of art
To gladden our hearts,
To fill us with wonder
And awe.
Trees of all
Shapes and sizes,
Giving us their energy and love.
How bleak would our world be
Without a flower or a tree.
DOLPHINS by Daphne Gulland
Dolphins, how I love to watch you play
In and out of the water every day.
What a joy it is to see you.
If you could laugh
We would surely hear you.
If you could cry
We would surely comfort you.
Dear dolphins,
We are here to make amends,
We are here to be your friends.
Times are changing now.
From days of sadness,
Days of woe,
What a long way we had to go,
How many years you had to wait.
But times are changing now
We shall protect you
From your foe
Because now we are filled with love
From top to toe.
We no longer have far to go.
WHALES by Daphne Gulland
Dear whales and dolphins of the sea,
we wish you well.
We know it is hard for you.
The drums send
deadly, destructive, devastating
sonic waves through the sea,
pounding your ear drums
penetrating your brains
and nervous systems,
pounding, pounding
piercing, piercing
without end.
You end up as beached whales
in your hundreds
upon the shores.
There is only one thing
we can do:
it is up to us
to make it
STOP
Thank you for reading my poems. It would be very much appreciated if you could make a generous donation to the WDCS
who are doing very much to protect whales and dolphins. www.wdcs.org
You can read about adopting a dolphin here: www.adoptadolphin.com
We urgently need your help to stop whaling www.whales.org Thank you.
Sonar towers are a huge problem that the WDCS is very active in opposing. There is an article on the www.wdcs.org website called "Oceans of Noise" please seee www.edcs.org/submissions_bin/OceanofNoise.pdf
Dear visitors to my website,
Tracy Patrick has published many of my poems these last nine years in her Earth Love poetry magazine. Sadly, the time has come for the magazine to say goodbye but you can still enjoy poetry on her new website: www.earthlovepoetrymagazine.yolasite.com