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Category Archives: Fire
Endings – Five Sentence Fiction
With thanks to Owlish Thoughts for the idea of the five sentence fiction form 🙂 The burden of love freely given but which I cannot return weighs so heavy on me, dragging me down further into my silence. I want … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Prose
Tagged betrayal, dark, denial, Love, passion, regret, Relationships, truth, unrequited love
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Vitriol
You go through me Like a dose of salts Your opinions And decisions Bleed me dry You’re like the cure To your own disease Mere proximity to you Inspires a purge If your impact Could be calibrated And bottled To … Continue reading
The Other Woman
Lipsticks stains should be A cheap ruse Beneath her She carries the aroma Of hidden sin Mid range hotels Frequented at lunch hours Stolen moments Exotic tastes Making this life A living cliché She looks in this golden mirror And … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged affair, dark, denial, guilt, infidelity, passion, Relationships, truth
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Sleep Disturbance
When I dreamt of you two nights ago it made me sick I wondered if the sickness made me think, and therefore dream of you I am not sure But then this terrible news I am told You will be soon … Continue reading
War
Dread-soaked heart Heads bowed Begin to mourn The soldiers see Their victory lost At break of dawn No heralds blazing No help arriving The eve before The choice was made This battle lost To win the war (c) Helen Valentina … Continue reading
Ambition
Embrace sloth It’s so much less effort Don’t be so driven to unrealised goals Recognise the wisdom in slowing down a moment Or the beauty in repose Ambition’s just another name for neurosis You can run a race so hard … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged acceptance, ambition, Aspiration, competition, effort, goals, Humor, neurosis, Philosophy, sloth
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Doubt and Faith
A lacuna in my soul Hollow spaces where the light cannot penetrate and the dark refuses to dwell It is all shades of grey The colour of uncertainty the tone of doubt Belief eludes me though I seek it like … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged acceptance, belief, dark, denial, doubt, faith, Musings, pain, passion, Philosophy, Spiritual, truth
16 Comments
Resurrection
Misshapen hands Too many lost years drawn on a relentless rack Curvature of spine, bent now too many times to the blunt force of brutality Raise your glittering eyes full of blood-rinsed tears to a morning of uncertain hope Years … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged acceptance, choice, cruelty, dark, denial, endurance, pain, passion, Philosophy, resurrection, Spiritual
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Novel Writing and Publishing
In my About section I noted that I am writing novels and longer works of prose and fiction. I’m now progressing on that journey. Baby steps at first 🙂  I wrote a few novels more than a decade ago, and … Continue reading
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