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.

Poised to Fly

Are you poised to fly? You’ve waited so long Patiently watching Stalking your prey Playing your games That so few can see Do you fly to oblivion Or sweet victory When you fly into history? Are you poised to swoop … Continue reading

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The Loneliness of Time

She was acquainted with the loneliness of time And though she did not speak of it, nor Dare to sing its saddest songs She knew it all along And on the seashore, at the pier She can hear the seagulls … Continue reading

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To The City Of Dreams

Roads may lead To the city of dreams Or the vista of nightmares And no-one can tell If the pathway is to heaven Or to hell All the glittering lights So pretty in the sky Tell you it’s beautiful But … Continue reading

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Watercolour Dreams

I’m drifting in watercolour dreams Soft hues flutter past me Whispering childhood secrets I cannot yet hear But I am content Even so I’m floating in watercolour seas The rainbow has fallen To earth at my feet I am content … Continue reading

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Perfect Silence

In perfect silence come and go The water following the flow The less you learn the more you know In perfect silence come and go In perfect balance, harmony Where three are one and one is three A single note, … Continue reading

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A New Sunrise

And have you yet found A new sunrise? Not requiring you to strive To fulfil impossibility But allowing you To simply be? What have you found? A new child cries At its first sunrise Unaware of where The roads may … Continue reading

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Fit Together

We fit together As you see Birds of a feather So easily We are so snug Almost a crime Give you a hug One more time Others will crave All that they see How we behave Just you and me … Continue reading

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Breathing

Breathing underwater is hard Keeping cool in a heatwave even so Holding till the moment the right card Making them want more as you go Equilibrium is brief Balance so eludes Time’s a wretched thief Reality intrudes Breathing underwater even … Continue reading

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Red Walk

This young lady in red Queen of all she surveys See as she climbs See how she sways They’ll be talking about her For days This queen of the screen Up the staircase she climbs She how she glows Everyone … Continue reading

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Lost Seraphim

Up in the stratosphere I see you dance Lost seraphim so little understood Lumbering silent though the aching sky Once heralded as gods of circumstance Offering pain or offering good Till they stopped believing by and by If you stray … Continue reading

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