Category Archives: Air

Writing primarily expressing the element Air – thoughts, belief, theory, philosophy, satire and science.

Under the Skin

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Helen

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged ephemeral, escaped, lost, memory, poetry, remembering, sensation, Skin | 2 Comments

Whispering over me Something that I heard In their rush of misery Cloying, clammy hands All these dreams and plans Spilling like rose petals on this bed Someone giving last rites Repeating in my head The shadows lengthen every hour … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged death, dying, family, freedom, grief, last rites, mourners, release, Spiritual | 2 Comments

Turn of the Card

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Helen

Our destinies are mystery The cards foretell with accuracy But often times we only see The truth they told through history And those that follow deep the stars Find harbingers in Moon and Mars But underneath run harsher scars The … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged analysis, astrology, deception, destiny, Divination, fate, fortune, Interpretation, prediction, stars, Tarot | 2 Comments

The Name

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Helen

Here I make prayers to broken stones Where weeds are overgrowth, and old Where footsteps have so seldom known How blood is thick and ground is cold A penitent pathetic at your feet I have burnt out my very soul … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged belief, blame, dark, guilt, lost, penitent, religious, shame, Spiritual | 2 Comments

The Age of Belief

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Helen

So hard to sustain Pure faith, true belief Over years When youth’s fire is in the veins There is hubris enough To overshadow doubts and fears We clasp our hopes like talisman And link hand in hand with gods and … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged belief, Beloved, faith, gods, guides, hope, Philosophy, religion, soul, Spiritual | 4 Comments

Incremental

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Helen

The road to despair is incremental It is rarely a steep descent Instead it follows pathways Of bleak and blighted hope Opportunities so close Within grasp and then elusive It builds an edifice so slowly Too late you see yourself … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged ambition, banality, darkness, despair, failure, increment, loss, Pessimism, Philosophy, reality, truth, wisdom | 2 Comments

Evening Falls

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Helen

Evening falls A cloak on a beggar’s shoulders Meagre starlight sprinkled like breadcrumbs on the firmament Eclipsing the last rays of red and purple heraldry of another day forgotten and lost Evening falls A silence rivalling the distant hum of … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged darkness, dreaming, evening, home, nighttime, shadows, sleep, starlight, travel, twilight | 8 Comments

Certainty

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Helen

How quickly now our certainties Slip through our fingers like the breeze And bring our kingdoms to their knees As beggars to their knees We build our world on shifting sand Rely on schemes and dreams and plans But little … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged certainty, change, hope, knowledge, Piper, price, student, sureness, uncertainty | 4 Comments

Prescience

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Helen

I had a sense of you long before you came through my door I felt a chill in the early morning breeze and noted sickness take the ivy in the eaves around my home I felt the earth beneath shudder … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged darkness, depravity, destined enemy, destiny, enemies, fear, inevitablity, knowledge, license, pre-destination, preiction, prescience, surrender | 2 Comments

The Dragon and the Wolf

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Helen

You hunt within these hemispheres Whirling in the gyre I call to you as energy I’m drowning in your fire My dragon wrap your wings around My trembling body still I’ll be the wolf upon the plain Just waiting on … Continue reading →