Helen M. Bryant

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Memberships: Charter Member in The International Society of Poets, Member of Advisory Council, Member of Etobicoke Library, Member of Ottawa National Library in Canada, Member of Canadians Library. Honors and Awards: featured in four newspapers, various television shows, six World of Poetry Trophies, 12 Editors Choice Certificates, six certificates of Merit, press releases, nine tapes, and numerous wall plaques. "I was a late starter, in 1984 My first book was published in 1995. I could not have accomplished any of this work without my religious belief, my family and friends, and my prayers to reach out and touch someone each day and to bring a smile to someone each day.

A New World

Oh planet earth in all your beauty
I see the squalor, starvation with fear
in the eyes of the children, standing there.

My face was wet with tears I felt the
mist aswirl, In blindness I could not see
the world, I looked far out at the horizon blue
To a world unearthly, impossible, seeming,
I heard shouts of power, with greed
The tumult awoke me from my dreaming.

Many thousand human souls,
They were not alone,
But we with our dreaming,
will have chance to atone,
Can we have lost the power to speak,
Of roaring winds, or the crying to cease,

I dreamed a dream of a glorious future
A great new world of sweetness with joy
For all people on earth, with freedom soil
Beneath their feet, with Brotherhood, of love
Can we have gained a whole world of
planet peace, or one that is coming to birth.

Spring

Twas lovely to see above the ground
The new creation, the birth of spring
As tiny young buds their greenery found,
A place in the sun, that warms the earth
The birth of a child, The coming of life,
Seeds of kindness, seeds of love,
Plants to vegetate, plants to rise,
Awaken our hearts, to the Creator above,
Who joyfully gives without reserve,
Seasons of peace, Songs of the birds,
As we begin life anew,
To greet the loveliest time of the year.

Life is Forever

Unfathomable, Indistinguishable, Unsinkable,
Depths of love, surfaces strength with beauty
Exploding with thunderous applause,
Surviving all weaknesses of earths inhabitants,
Never fading with sunsets glow.
Ready at all times to emerge,
You made my heart to love, my voice to sing,
Eyes to see the beauty within,
Two lives emerged, enhanced at last,
No turning back, no time to run,
But time will tell,
Tintinnabulation swells the music,
Love binds one to another until the end of time.