Category Archives: Fire

Writing primarily expressing the element Fire – action, ego, creativity, passion, lust, activity.

Temptation

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Helen

I have been my forty days in the wilderness Felt his breath so soft and warm against my cheek Urging me to offerings, bidding that I speak Of things forgotten, things secret and things lost But my words are parched, … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged ambition, belief, choice, cruelty, dark, death, delusion, denial, desert, devil, evil, fear, God, Musings, Spiritual, Temptation, truth | 12 Comments

True Colours

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Helen

Paint the canvas black and red Fire and brimstone, I’ll approve Through it all some splash of white Deeper lacks here to remove Draw true colours from the pit See as though through demon eyes Nowhere fit for blue or … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged artist, Aspiration, Canvas, choice, Color, creativity, cruelty, dark, honesty, pain, Paint, painter, passion, revelation, self=portrait, true colours, truth, Visual Arts | 10 Comments

Facing One’s Fears…..

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Helen

OK, they say facing your fears is good for you. Let’s hope so! Today I do something which many of you do happily and without thought often – as celebration, as memories, as fun – but for me it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Conversation, Fire | Tagged acceptance, Aspiration, belief, choice, delusion, denial, fear, identity, Musings, photogenic, photography, promotion, self-image, truth, vanity | 61 Comments

Casanova

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Helen

The flights of fancy From your eyes Flirtatious and intense Then cool attention Mimics ice As fire of passion relents These games you play So intricate Like chess, a structured strategy Are but your cards Used to relate To delve … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged casanova, Dreams, Giacomo Casanova, great lovers, history, infamy, mind control, Musings, passion, Relationships, seduction, truth | 6 Comments

Serendipity

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Helen

I am a slave to serendipity Just a creature who lives by chance Whatever fate will do to me Whatever may be in its plans I admit that I am choice averse I prefer to seek for signs And it’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged Aspiration, belief, choice, fate, Musings, Philosophy, Serendipity, truth | 12 Comments

Beguiling Contradiction

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Helen

You sing your songs of half mystery half regret Calling across distance for my sympathy and yet my cause for confusion and fear I cannot forget You prowl your stage part hunger part fire Beguiling contradiction both wrath and desire … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged Aspiration, belief, choice, dark, delusion, denial, dissociation, loss, madness, Musings, pain, truth | 9 Comments

Seek

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Helen

Depth of feeling with you is a sickness; bleeding wound that never heals; no clinician can diagnose or remedy the cavity within, this lacuna of the soul or fill this lack which kills all truer feeling before it can begin … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged belief, choice, cruelty, dark, death, delusion, denial, Love, madness, memory, pain, passion | 17 Comments

Galaxy

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Helen

Across the galaxy An eye winks at me Across the milky way Hands beckon me away Our solar system craves Us risen from our graves Across the galaxy See how they sing for me? (c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged alchemy, Aspiration, Dreams, galaxy, Milky Way, Musings, solar system, stars | 10 Comments

Unlearn – for Prompt 16 Life Lesson

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Helen

The cruellest truths You can’t unlearn You’ll try to forget Or to overturn These ravages of Crystal memory That know no fall No entropy Your innocence Once lost is gone The bitterest truths Are hardest won And hardest left To … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | 33 Comments