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Secret – For Prompt 9 – Free Share

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Helen

I will whisper hidden secrets in your ear (Photo credit: HAMED MASOUMI)

Can I whisper you a secret
Do you promise not to tell?
Does it matter if it’s painful
Would the truth do just as well?

I’ve a face that hides my spirit
There’s another lurking there
And sometimes I see her winking
In the space beneath the stairs

I’ve a voice that sings a sorrow
Like a lark pierced by a spear
I’ve a monster underneath my bed
I don’t even think to fear

I’ve a memory I’ve forgotten
I’ve a story yet untold
I don’t care for its conclusion
Or the way it might unfold

Will you keep for me my secret
Since I’ve chosen now to share?
When you’ve almost just forgotten
I’ll remind you that it’s there.

mindlovemisery’s prompt this week was for us to share anything, so I thought I’d write a strange little quasi nursery rhyme about sharing strangely 🙂 🙂 …. See her prompts and her great writing at http://mindlovemisery.wordpress.com

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged identity, lies, Musings, mystery, nursery rhyme, prompt, secret, sharing, Spiritual, truth | 25 Comments

Lost At Sea

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Helen

Sea (Photo credit: Moyan_Brenn)

Lost at sea
Adrift for days
I seek an albatross
To light my way
The water here’s
Too rank to drink
Voices murmur
Won’t let me think

I’ve navigated
Until I’m lost
On storm swept seas
I’m cruelly tossed
I spoke your name
I broke that vow
I’m lost at sea
No rescue now

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged acceptance, Aspiration, choice, dark, loss, lost love, Musings, pain, Philosophy, sea, truth | 12 Comments

Cancer

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Helen

Migrating cell (Photo credit: TheJCB)

An errant cell mutates
And quickly finds its mate
They grow and grow
And so it goes
Until
You’re suddenly feeling ill

These new cells are defined
Uniquely re-designed
Proliferate
At such a rate
You see
Yourself in entropy

Surgery and radiate
To firmly stop the rate
Of such growth
It’s our oath
To God on high
That only bad cells die

I pray recovery
Will finally set you free
From this dark pain
So you regain
Your health
The greatest form of wealth

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged acceptance, Aspiration, Biology, Cancer, Cell Biology, cells, cure, hope, illness, recovery, sicknss | 27 Comments

Attendance

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Helen

Men of U.S. 64th Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, celebrate the news of the Armistice, November 11, 1918 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We will mark attendance
At the end of the parade
All the right notations
Crisply will be made
So the information
Is faithfully relayed
And needed security
Never is betrayed

All the little soldiers
Marching in a row
See the dread required
Loyalty they show
We will sound the roll call
Sadly as they go
Yet their destination
None of us may know

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged dark, death, loss, Marching, memory, pain, soldiers, truth, war | 8 Comments

The Gift

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Helen

Thornless Rose painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, etched by Charles Lemaire (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I took a gift to my sweet love
And bid him merry meet
A simple rose without a thorn
I laid before his feet
And he extolled my virtue pure
And called me darling, sweet!

My lover took me to his bed
So warm in his embrace
With passion sated did we stretch
Across the silk and lace
And in his love soaked eyes beheld
Of darkness not a trace

But years have withered on the vine
The flower of such love
And daily I am wanting found
Of hands fit for his glove
That he would bid his loved one wear
His angel from above

I took my heart to my cold love
To bid he set me free
For now in days of dark despair
I live with misery
And that sweet rose without a thorn
I can no longer be

My lover freed me from his heart
With words of bleak disdain
I knew within his company
I could no more remain
And so I now with sad, sweet voice
Sing solitude’s refrain

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged acceptance, loss, lost love, Love, memory, Musings, pain, passion, poetry, Relationships, Rose, truth | 26 Comments

Faceless One

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Helen

I dreamt
Of the Faceless one
Hidden eyes blazing
Like collapsing sun
Silent voice screaming
Coming undone

I heard the sound
Of the Voiceless one
Lyrical catcalls
Dirges unsung
Lost words accusing
Everyone

I felt the touch
Of the Formless one
Embrace of a spider
With web unspun
Creates without knowing
What he has done

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged dark, death, delusion, denial, dissociation, Dreams, fear, horror, madness, mystery, mystical, occult, pain, Philosophy, Spiritual | 21 Comments

Walk With Me

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Helen

African-American soldiers marching in France During World War I. “African Americans during World War I” . . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Walk with me
In the halls of the dead
Drink from this chalice
Of blood newly shed
Remember the promise
Our forefathers said
Down the path we are led, we are led

Take from me
The most bitter of wine
Drunk by the fallen
Cross eons of time
Remember we fought for
The will of Divine
So we know we are blind, we are blind

Shadows rise
Darkly captured in chains
War sick boys
Trapped in youth they remain
But they’re ghosts
Too confused to explain
So we’ll march yet again yet again

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged acceptance, Aspiration, dark, death, delusion, denial, loss, truth, war | 14 Comments

One Eye Watching

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Helen

English: Novus Ordo Seculorum (1 US$) Illuminati conspiracy in the U.S.A. Česky: Novus Ordo Seculorum (1 US$) Spiknutí Iluminátů v USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One eye watching
Camera lens
One heart bleeding
Absent friends

One word spoken
Just a lie
One heart broken
Wish to die

One voice singing
In the dark
One wing shattered
Silenced lark

One eye blinking
Ancient crime
See them die, one
At a time

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged acceptance, choice, cruelty, dark, denial, dissociation, Eye, fear, Illuminati, mind control, Musings, mysticism, pain, Spiritual, truth | 10 Comments

Craving

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Helen

English: A candle flame. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have travelled so far to see you
I have journeyed on light and on words
Slipped through parallel space just to find you
Flown for miles, sister here to the birds

I have struggled to gain all the answers
To the riddles you threw in my path
I have knelt like a child at your altar
I have wept even while you would laugh

I accepted your odd invitation
Crossed the barriers of space and of time
I have offered this shell I inhabit
Just a poet relinquishing rhyme

I have stood as a supplicant waiting
In these halls drenched with blood and with pain
I have floated half drunk on the ether
I returned here again and again

Still waiting the moment to see you
Bid you welcome my much revered host
Yet like shadows you only will offer
But a fraction of what I crave most

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged Aspiration, choice, craving, dark, death, denial, Musings, mysticism, pain, passion, shadows, Spiritual, truth, yearning | 20 Comments

Questions

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Helen

Question mark liberal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What makes you feel, my dear
What makes you fear?
What makes it real, my friend
Where does this end?
If we begin, my foe
Where will we go?
And should we sin, my heart
Whence then depart?

Why now this sigh, my soul
Are you not whole?
I’ll wave goodbye, my kin
And thus begin
A storm holds sway, my dear
This time of year
And some give way, my all
And so must fall