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Complexity
Come explore with me he said A world of infinite complexity Stretch your hesitant mind To distant horizons and you’ll find Your reach can far outstrip Your prescribed and taught belief Those ones who held you back Just a begger, … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Poetry
Tagged complexity, Design, discovery, intelligence, mind, neuro plasticity, potential, Simplicity, thought
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Arising
In tremulous moments Between sleep and wakefulness A voice shudders deep Within my wondering ears This is the year This is the year How long awaited This embrace of serpent form Wings battering cheeks Soft, gentle and warm So sublime … Continue reading
Nourishment
Each day Given unto us Such nourishment For body and soul That spirit and form Are complete And whole Let this be Our sacred goal From youth Until we are old We pray Each day (c) Helen Valentina 2016
Everyday Dreams
These many years the boundaries of my suburban life have held me in And I must admit some security attended such limitations I would tend my house and garden Feed family and nurture all Except me, except me I understood … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged ambition, breaking free, desire, fantasy, hearth, home, lack, limitations, loss, restraint, striving
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Salieri
I am but fortune’s fool May as well be Salieri Striving Baying at the moon While Mozart’s melodies make symphonies Of the celestial forms My fingernails dug so deep Into my own skin I bled From all the glories that … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged art, bitterness, Envy, fortune, Jealousy, loss, Mozart, nature, Salieri, second place, striving
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Let It In (for my father – in memory)
“There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in” Leonard Cohen, Anthem In this moment Precious chance Let it in Let it in Just a promise Warmest glance Let it in Let it in It’s … Continue reading
The Gathering
Blessed is The gathering Anointing here A newborn king Butterflies free Angels weep and sing Blessed is The gathering Many decry What this may bring Fear and taunts Mud will sling But on fury Honour wings Blessed is The gathering … Continue reading
Summer Sea Memory
Flickering like old movies On wartime movie screens Summer sea memory Greets me In a waking dream Part beautiful and part dread It’s nothing like it seems Summer sea memory Haunts me In a waking dream Pinned like butterflies shivering … Continue reading
For My Mother – In Memory
Keep this little light shining Honour and truth The greater questions Of the imponderable universe All those nights Speaking of the ineffable The sublime Nourish me still Give me belief And almost faith That kindness and care Still replenish this … Continue reading
Leaving
The hardest part I recall In leaving you Was those final stairs Up and away From the beach where we met And wandered so long Hand in hand Now distant My hands are free To find another love and another … Continue reading
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