Category Archives: Poetry

The parent category for poetry that fits the overall theme.

Artistry Birth

The artist’s brush Paints me And I awaken The canvas soft Supports me And I breathe The colours bright Adorn me And I dance And when you gaze Upon my portrait I’m alive © Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved

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A Kinder Day

I am sleeping in my cocoon Transformation painful, dark These nightmares of disintegration This transcendental elevation As I am broken down within To arise the butterfly in new skin Nigredo dark and deep despair You feel that you will never … Continue reading

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Rondelet Rounds

Desolate soul With your loss I’m broken and bare Desolate soul Would my pain engulf me here whole Render me unconscious of care Make all those that see me beware Desolate soul Woken again Hear your voice on my telephone … Continue reading

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Dragon Song

I hear the softest melody Above my bed head canopy Its lyrics will encompass me And from its call I’m never free I heard it when I was a child The call of hunger and the wild And you may … Continue reading

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Possession

Take me within you, take me inside Give me surrender, nothing denied I am your compass, forsaking all pride Take me within you, take me inside Let me true know you, let me true know All that’s in heaven, all … Continue reading

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Voyage Within

There is warmth beyond words There is a depth without measure There is a heart that just beats With a golden light treasure And such truth needs no evidence And such love stands apart It’s more grace here than providence … Continue reading

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Sadness

I am a sadness without name Tears are unshed from blue grey eyes I am a candle without a flame Dull recognition without surprise Disconsolate dreaming without an aim Where is the sky for this bird to arise? Where is … Continue reading

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Dancing

We were all dancing, lost in the wind Where one would stop, another begin All of this laughter, none of it sin We were just dancing, lost in the wind Follow the piper into the wood Some music tempting, some … Continue reading

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I Am No Hero

I calculate my days In increments of risk and gain I make my power plays For reasons that I won’t explain And as the danger comes My reptile brain, alert, awake Is beating on the drums And counting prisoners to … Continue reading

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Three Days

Three days deep Rolling in my sleep Closing eyes that weep Secrets that I keep Three days deep Three days long Moving with the throng Praying to belong Offering my song Three days long Three days dark Like children in … Continue reading

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