This Summer

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Helen

Summer’s blistering heat
Ravages a mind that is much more
At one with ice

(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved

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Jungian Forest Walk

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Helen

My forest wakes and breathes at night
A simple cup and knife-blade bright
Beside a stream where waters race
As though a passion causes fright

This beast I know but not his face
His anger stilled by one embrace
A smile, a word, I know he’s there
But then he’s gone without a trace

A ruined church beyond repair
The beast awaits my pleasure there
My love has died for lust I know
And misery for all I care

A valley opens here below
Where flowers and the wild things grow
But where this leads I do not know
And where it leads I do not know

(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved

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Are you a Raven?

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Helen

Spreadeagled on the altar
I wait
‘Are you a Raven?’ she asked
I do not know, I do not know
And does it matter?
‘It might’ she replied
A Psychopomp
Weaving its way to the underneath

Coiled within
waiting for the moment to expand
I see Archangels fall from the sky
in a fury of fire and wings
Much like you

What Leviathan sleeps
in the depths of this ocean
Poised to awaken
drunk with the ecstasy
Remembering me?

Who shall I recall?
Cool cheek against the stone
Just the face I knew before I was born
The fealty to which I am eternally sworn
Just you.

(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved

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Hi to anyone who has stumbled upon this blog

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Helen

Hi, I’m new at the blogging business and so this site is under construction right now.  When I think it looks about right I’ll start to publish more openly, so if you are interested in the works of a casual writer please come back a bit later and join me.

Cheers  Helen V.

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