Category Archives: Poetry

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Heaviness of Air

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Helen

He felt the heaviness of air Bearing down much more than gravity Elusive oppression stifling Upon his shoulders as a weight Waiting a moment on the stair Remembering light, a lover’s eyes So many years, a century As finer feelings … Continue reading →

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Too Sweet for Prompt 74 The Hollow Men by TS Elliot

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Helen

I have stepped across this threshold Mr Devil I can see you In that shrunken blackened doorway See your bony hand there beckoning Like a tide returning to the beach I hear your slyly sibilant, silent speech Making promises, and … Continue reading →

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Distraction

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Helen

I need centring I need control I’m just avoiding All I must do I love distraction Soothes my soul Makes me forget I Must follow through I’m writing poems When yet instead I should be drafting Something more All that’s … Continue reading →

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Coffee

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Helen

My coffee is cold Winter creeps across my threshold With its stories and its laments I am quite wired but still so tired Growing old My coffee is cold Like the soul within I’ve sold With its memories and tragedies … Continue reading →

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Slice

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

We slice your veins Your human remains Your white dress textured By dried blood stains And from such pleasures None would refrain None would refrain We bind your hands With intricate plans Down to your mind’s core Our savagery spans … Continue reading →

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Floating Far Downstream for Tale-Weaver’s Prompt 26

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

Isolation’s prison here defines My limitations, all I see Silence punctuated by Discordant, harsh cacophony And sharp, blood soaked imagery Deep within the soul of me And feeding on my energy There’s nothing else, no more for me No more … Continue reading →

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Broken

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

I am a little broken here inside I’m not sure when it happened Or what the shattering implied I am part pure ambition And foolish, yearning pride But I’m also lost and broken So divided here inside I am a … Continue reading →

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Bad For You

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Helen

You had to go there didn’t you? You had to see this story through You had to follow on a glance And build your world on circumstance You had to wonder at a smile You lingered there a little while … Continue reading →

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Bring On the Night – for Prompt 72 Sister Awake

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Helen

The year they dared to capture this fallen angel, they tore her wings and mounted them upon the wall, her limbs secured by steel tipped strings The men that gathered there to see this unholy but sacred sight blinked, dazed … Continue reading →

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Regret

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Helen

Within our town the shutters drawn Tell tales without our words No prescience could yet have barred Such crimes as here occurred Where once mere kindness might have lived Companion to our hearts Here now the winter’s deeper chill Ensures … Continue reading →

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