Category Archives: Poetry

The parent category for poetry that fits the overall theme.

Pen

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Helen

The pen is weary All the ink run dry Across a parchment scratches Ideas lost in time No new blood is drawn From the pain of life There are only tears And banality Nothing left for me The screen is … Continue reading →

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Concubine

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Helen

I was your concubine of perversity Across your twisted mind the games we’d played Were the rivulets where the stitches frayed What did you say when just standing there The lonely man upon the highest stair All the butterflies nesting … Continue reading →

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Razor’s Edge

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Helen

I’m on the razor’s edge Of impossibilities On every road to choose A hungry devil waits Caught in the cold Implacable hands of fate From this trajectory I can’t deviate I’m barely breathing When the road before Is too straight … Continue reading →

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Digging Deep

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Helen

Delving in the past To find our future Little rest And far less sleep We were digging deep Our ancestors’ lives Create a blood link Running thick Down mountains steep We were digging deep Is your forbear In your furrowed … Continue reading →

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Gems

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Helen

You are citrine Yellow wonder That’s capturing the sun You are amethyst Royal purple Your kingdoms yet begun You are ruby Like a blood kiss Pressed soft upon my cheek You are emerald Like wondrous water Of nature’s purest creek … Continue reading →

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Hide

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Helen

These streets are no place To hide, they are too bright And far too wide And all the houses here beside The doors too narrow For our stride In caves forgotten we may Yet dwell, I knew them once So … Continue reading →

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An Education

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Helen

You were an education to me You showed me what I didn’t Want to see How souls corrode and hearts Too quickly bleed And if you’ve once surrendered Never free You were to innocence a teacher cold The truths you … Continue reading →

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Children of a Lesser Pantheon

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Helen

He told me that Children of a lesser pantheon Cannot rise This world has here allotted Every trinket, every prize Ambition was neurosis In his eyes He told me that Your nature more than nurture Determined size It was the … Continue reading →

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New Delights Falling

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Helen

I can feel the sunlight falling Palpable as golden rays Heralding this dawn And I can taste the colours Like a symphony of flavour That mimics lyrical sound I am awash In perfect morning Senses fevered to new heights And … Continue reading →

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Deadwood

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Helen

Deadwood Floating downstream I heard we were redundant Our lives a pointless dream And all that we had planned Was nothing like it seemed Just deadwood Floating downstream Deadwood Bobbing as it flows Our reckless future Nothing we can know … Continue reading →

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