Category Archives: Poetry

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Ghosts

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Helen

These ghosts tell lies They wander hallways With dull abandon Secrets glittering in their eyes We bid them speak Sepulchral colours Stars just dying Flickering and so, so weak We mourn our lost But they are wavering In and out … Continue reading →

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Need To Know

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Helen

What do you need to know What kingdoms yet To overthrow? And why such speed? The world is slow It’s all you need to know How can you start to care? Your followers are Waiting there Can you save hope … Continue reading →

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Bloomed – for Prompt 71 – Why Me?

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Helen

I bloomed late And rather disconsolate Not inclined To intimacy or to Co-habitate But in those brittle years At any rate I rose my eyes above My fear and gazed I lived apart An owner of a fractured heart Too … Continue reading →

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Sheer Futility

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Helen

Sisyphus had it easy Job security Rolling that rock Up and down that hill Until technology And other ingenuity Found a way to automate Sheer futility Then Sisyphus must Negotiate his lower wage For lesser productivity On history’s page And … Continue reading →

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A Whale Of A Sale But It’s All True I Swear By My Tattoo

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Helen

Originally posted on mishaburnett:
Click To Buy! Click To Buy! To celebrate my launching of The Worms Of Heaven I am putting Catskinner’s Book and Cannibal Hearts on sale for 99 cents each this week.  In addition Catskinner’s Book will…

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The Long Walk

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Helen

The long walk that afternoon You arm strung casually across my shaking shoulders Our bodies close enough as though our heat could banish every cold This memory still resonates An intimacy made of time and lies that glowed like holy … Continue reading →

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Lake House

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Helen

Peaceful waters Cathedral halls I’ve been here before Sunlight flickers Shadows linger At the kitchen door Birds flutter In their group now Race across the water I am breathing Full awake now Sunshine’s daughter At the lake house All these … Continue reading →

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Fifteen minutes – for Speed Challenge, Prompt 70

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Helen

I followed mindlovemisery’s lead yesterday for the 10 poems in 20 minutes challenge and found it a really mind opening, artistic release. So why not try again, like her, this time with a different time limit? I went for 15 … Continue reading →

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Savage Hearts

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Helen

  What made you think that I would be A chalice for your fears and dreams? Insanity flows far downstream Lost in complexity There is no place where we may be Our contradictions are our core Philosophers would love us … Continue reading →

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10 Poems in 20 Minutes

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Helen

1 Still free-floating from that star sprinkled night This morning in a café I saw the face of God on a colourful postcard He was winking 2 Counting the coins before you throw them into this gilded wishing well A … Continue reading →

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