Author Archives: Helen

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About Helen

I'm drawn to blogging as a way to share ideas and consider what makes us who we are. Whether it's in our working life or our creativity, expression is a means to connect.

Deserted

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Helen

I am deserted like a broken house left by owners now distressed by angles and curvature not quite right and colder shallows in the rooms where gathers dust, memories and gloom I am deserted I am unloved like an abandoned … Continue reading →

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Dragon’s Breath

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Helen

Feel me breathe My fire breath I am license I am death Warm your heart Your icy bones Give you most When you’re alone Dragon’s breath Wilder heart Where they finish Where I start Feel me breathe My fire breath … Continue reading →

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Searching

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Helen

I am searching for the light I am wandering this night In this ancient habitat I might find the way at that Broken church just like my soul In the dimmer light is whole Shining beacon in the night I … Continue reading →

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Beacon

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Helen

Let me be your beacon Let me bring you home Wherever you may wander Wherever you may roam Across the darkest seas To the most distant shore Let me be your beacon Let me show you more Let me be … Continue reading →

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Peel – for Prompt 80, Unforgiven

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Helen

I peel you off Snake shedding its skin A little blood and pain A pure recompense And you are gone The remnants shrivel Curl and crackle Like dying embers In firelight at night And you are gone Fresh skin will … Continue reading →

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Strawberries

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Helen

He brought me strawberries Spilling upon my table Gifts of the nature’s bounty Red as the promise of a kiss I thought it bliss We dined on strawberries Served with pure whipped cream Sweetness bursting on our tongues Red as … Continue reading →

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Big and Bigger Changes

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Helen

Hi Reasons to be (not so) Cheerful I haven’t been around much of late, which is only partly my crazy busy job. Because I’m about to leave said crazy, busy job and move inter-state for a bit of a sea … Continue reading →

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You

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Helen

I know you are waiting In the weave I know you are hiding Never leave I know you are whispering A choice I know your angelic Demon’s voice I know you are ancient But a child You slither like water … Continue reading →

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Charon

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Helen

I cannot cross here to the shore I’ve lingered thus so long before In dreams in nightmares and in life I’ve felt the whip, the lash, the knife I know these waters run aground I know the promise they surround … Continue reading →

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Within

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Helen

The light barely breaks The cloying darkness Here within I’m wild with longing Never dreaming Of anything but sin The gentlest creatures In my forest Should harken to the sound For every promise There’s the whiplash Coming silent, sure around … Continue reading →

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