Category Archives: Air

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

Alice

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Helen

Alice has fallen Through the glass again This life-like absurdity Raised to literary art Perversity in poetry She’s dancing with the mad again There’s secrets here Hid deep within The whirl of disordered thought Alice isn’t quite a child Not … Continue reading →

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Management 101 – for Prompt 5 – Cliche

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Helen

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater We have to right size this organisation But that doesn’t mean we have to re-invent the wheel We have to up size our delivery streams Embrace a matrix reporting structure That works … Continue reading →

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Freefall

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Helen

Freefall Vertigo has caught me rushing down to fast approaching ground Thoughts splinter beating with my heart Bones breaking tearing me apart Freefall Time released me Something forgotten lost for all time Sweet oblivion give me your embrace Final death … Continue reading →

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Anyone having trouble with loading their notifications and/or any ‘like’ buttons on blogposts?

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Helen

I’ve been having trouble on and off for a few weeks now with ‘like’ buttons not loading on blog posts of blogs I follow, to the point that I often can only ‘like’ something in the Reader page. Tonight it … Continue reading →

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Transcend

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Helen

Between us all perhaps Are threads of light Shimmering For those with eyes to see Ephemeral connection Pulsing with pure love Every moment As we breathe The mystics say that God is One And so it seems are we In … Continue reading →

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Bitten Twice

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Helen

I heard your voice this morning Across a crowded café And in this vocal memory So many years just washed away I would have searched you out Before you went away But I found I had nothing to say You … Continue reading →

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We Repeat This – A Rondelet Stream

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Helen

We repeat this In each life returns the same thread We repeat this From betrayal of a lost kiss Comes the certainty of true dread But no matter what we have said We repeat this Please don’t lose heart Even … Continue reading →

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The Limerick That Yearned For More

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Helen

There once was a limerick I knew That people would quote in review A laugh it would bring While it yearned to sing Of something more pure and true But the truth will not bring it much cheer Since sonnets … Continue reading →

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Stars

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Helen

Dismay Today I pray The way Will cut through all dismay, today you Give to my heart, I pray, the way through It’s true I do Come through For you My heart was yours then, it’s true I do care … Continue reading →

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Discordance

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Helen

A solitary man Upon this road Listens so intently Above him a starlit canopy Sings songs of the spheres No discordance here A chill within Bids him pull His collar to his throat Before him aches the road The travail … Continue reading →

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