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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.

Exciting News – Briana Vedsted’s A Girl Named Cord!

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Helen

Fabulous News!!! A Girl Named Cord by Briana Vedsted will be published on Amazon.com July 31st, 2013 as both a paperback and an eBook. Get in early and be one of the first to read!!!! Goodreads link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18269695-a-girl-named-cord Book description: … Continue reading →

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I Remember

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Helen

I remember your deep, glittering eyes Reaching mine I remember your soft, beautiful voice Trapped in time I remember your pain, of such depth Reaching out I remember the passion, blood stricken Leeching out I remember the madness of guile … Continue reading →

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Full Circle

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Helen

My friend, your words are still calling cards You still repeat the themes you should not know, should not have heard, reverberating your view had you been invited to the conversation So many years since their staccato, strange momentum was … Continue reading →

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Red Alert

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Helen

My heart has broken Shards of glass spill Red alert There is no hurting It is riven, dead Red alert Call the ambulance Arrives too late Red alert Write the epitaph Words unspoken Red alert (c) Helen Valentina 2013, All … Continue reading →

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Cold Case

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Helen

Our history is a cold case Dissected on a table Dusty memories now covered No-one has looked within For years Our passion is on cold ice Freezing like its birth-right Trapped within a photo A memory mostly forgotten In tears … Continue reading →

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Forget Her – For Prompt 14 – The Music of Jeff Buckley

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Helen

The debris of these many years alights your mind like a firecracker out of season; a chance sighting on the street of similar hair, a similar walk and memories flooded back A dam unstuck, overwhelming And you thought you could … Continue reading →

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Mistake

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Helen

A click on the keyboard A stroke of the pen Decision made in haste Miscalculates, and then All we know of hell And all we’d know of heaven Descends A word brusquely spoken A tear soaked voice Denial of true … Continue reading →

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Infinity

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Helen

Infinity bracelet worn Upon a stranger’s wrist Like a talisman to where Intimate strangers kiss All my life there’s never been More to feel than this Can a sense of lack become Something close to bliss? Infinity tattoo tells Lies … Continue reading →

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Trenchcoat Song

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Helen

Trenchcoat covers Neck against a chill That slivers down the alleyway All the way to hell Frost upon the grass breaks As stranger’s feet tread by Players roll their dice to see Who may live or die High heeled, cool … Continue reading →

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The Seed – Now Available on Lulu.com!!!

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Helen

  Hi Everyone !  As promised, below you will find the  links to the paperback and ebook versions of my first novel The Seed. Over the next couple of months it will be available also on Amazon – both paperback and eventually kindle … Continue reading →

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