JULES CLARE

JULES CLARE

GROWING UP

Life is an immovable stage

Being fashionable is all the rage

A minute is a minute

An age is an age

Life is a transferable stage

Staying in one place

in another’s induced cage

makes us angry

filled with rage

Life is the only stage

Thank you for releasing me

from the colour beige

Giving love and respect

is the way to move through life

phase by phase

Life is a reasoned stage

It isn’t easy to gauge

We only move on

if we turn its next page

Copyright - Jules Clare - The Jewelster

Monday 29th August 2016,

Crook, County Durham, England

Jewelster Productions Ltd

HEARTS AND BUTTERFLIES

Life is like a butterfly

See it live and see it die

See it float in the sky

Meditate, watch it as time goes by

Life is like The Amazon

Flowing gently on and on

See it meander, appreciate it’s gentle fun

Go with it’s flow, be the only one

Life is like a hurricane

Be the wind and be the rain

Drown in the insanity of pain

Rise again with a new refrain

Life is like a dream of gold

Don’t give up until it’s finally sold

Be cheerful, startling, bright and bold

Reach it’s boundaries

Come in from the cold

Life is like an open book

Turn it’s pages, be Delia Smith and cook

Be a Queen, don’t be mistook

Be an everlasting memory that’s been shook

Life is like an open heart

Be it’s board, be it’s dart

Make sure you’re the treasure

in it’s apple cart

Relish it’s entirety from the start

Copyright - Jules Clare - The Jewelster

Friday 26th August 2016, Crook, County Durham, England

Jewelster Productions Ltd

A VICTORIOUS SNOOZE

I did not snooze

I woke up

I wrote a book

I put my name out there

It was possible to lose

I refused to snooze

I carried on

I followed through

I put my name out there

I did not want to lose

I will not snooze

I set my own standards

I appreciate life’s moments

My name is out there

Can I lose?

Today is very special

I am wide awake

I have not slept

I have not snoozed

I am very proud of my name

Jewels of Authenticity is on the shelves

I have a smile on my face

I am no longer confused

I have not lost

I will not lose

Copyright 

JULES CLARE

The Jewelster

Friday, 19th August 2016

Belle Vue Club, Crook, County Durham, England

Jewelster Productions Ltd

JULES CLARE was born in Wales in 1963 and lives in the North of England. He has lived life to the full by surviving a brain haemorrhage, ulcerative colitis, bi-polar affective mood disorder, acute rheumatoid arthritis and a deep vein thrombosis!

His stage name is The Jewelster! He is a regular contributor to the PENTASI B World Friendship Poetry Group.

He started writing poetry ten years ago during a mental health recovery phase at The County Hospital in Durham. He enjoys promoting positive mental health and working with the homeless in conjunction with Sanctuary 21 in Durham. He has been on many radio shows and for a year was notably involved in the production of a global Mental Health radio show in conjunction with Gravity Radio North East (Mentally Sound). He has produced numerous self-published books, his most notable being JEWELS IN THE CROWN. He has had over a hundred poems published nationally in magazines and newspapers. His latest poetry book is called JEWELS OF AUTHENTICITY was published in August 2016.

Key poems that he has been commissioned to write are Banners of Hope and Faith (for the 2010 Durham Miners Gala), Thank You (to describe the Rheumatology out-patient experience at Gateshead Hospital),  A Beautiful Day (Weardale Railway) and Holy Communion (Time For Change