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In this hour
As our foolishness descends
And of our friends
Are only foes
We scarce can comprehend our woes
Then close your wings
Around these sacred things
And weep for us
In this year
When sanity gave way to fear
And all comes clear
This wretched fate
We only understand too late
Please close your wings
And from the seat of heaven sing
And weep for us
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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Sweet messenger I see
Hovering above
Will you only come to me
Whispering of love?
Whispering of fear
Tumult this deadly year
And eyes that finally see
Finally clear?
Sweet messenger I call
To my side
We tilt towards the fall
Whispering of pride
Whispering the end
Wreaths and sorrow send
Words now of a friend
But just pretend
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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We are star born
From the very fabric
Of the universe we’re torn
To lose the face of God
So lost, forlorn
Yet beautiful as light
Perfect in All sight
As a star child
From the dust of bursting flames
You fall so wild
Before the face of God
We are beguiled
Yet beautiful as light
Perfect in All sight
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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Mediate on strength
Strong as the beast
Gentle as the butterfly
Kingdoms must rise
On ideas as light as air
Heavy weighted truth
Fierce as battle cries
Soft as lullabies
May we yet realise
Realise
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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All the secrets hidden
In the folds of red-hued linen
Eyes denied the spell of light
Across damaged ruins of a life
And he might have even bled
To hear the truths she said
But it’s lost in time instead
Rhapsody in red
Dancing in the darkness
Highlighting bitter starkness
Of the wrongs she can’t make right
No supplications in the night
And once she might have wed
And followed to his bed
But she’s lost in time instead
Rhapsody in red
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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After the ball
A simple mask shimmers
In the confetti strewn
Across the banquet room
The floor’s ablaze
With the mazes of hidden love
And intrigue’s curse
A bard’s melodious verse
Might sing of the mystery
Of this mask’s recent history
Before the last shadows of the night’s revelry
Have dispersed
And behind its veil
Was a lover hiding or a tease
Or something else instead?
A momentary potential
Swept across the dance floor swirling
The webs of history curling
As though to capture such a will’o’the wisp
With a song or a touch or a kiss
What is there to say for it all
After the ball?
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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That old song
La Vie en Rose
Draws me in
At the end of this perfect day
The colour so redolent
Of all on display
I think I know
What the singer proclaimed
For a moment I’m her
On the streets of Paris
Another’s face, another’s name
Another’s flame
I live it
La Vie en Rose
Falling deep
Into perfect slumber, perfect sleep
The pink shimmering on my lips
My tongue
I am undone
And I will never be the same
Another’s face, another’s name
Another’s flame
(C0 Helen Valentina. 2020
Royal hue
On her upturned face
Open grace
Purple fire
The whim of desire
Sacred space
In the stars
Hear the choir
Sing to you
Splendour here
This now perfect year’s
Royal hue
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
May they all be blessed
To be best at one thing
To rise as the angels sing
To reach for the stars
And to reach the mountains
That this cold world debars
Exceptional, rise
With stars in their eyes
Only on the wings of such prayer
Can they ever reach there
But for each little soul to be whole
They must fly
Much further than you or I
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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I will reach for the world
Travelling in my mind
A little wish
Before I sleep
A yearning for
More, just more
Across the oceans wide and deep
I will wish for the earth
Responding to my itchy feet
Just to walk
The ancient shores
A yearning for
More, just more
To make this life and soul complete
To make my heart complete
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
Like most people, I have a number of sides to me. The most interesting one probably emerges through my writing, hence this blog. I love to read, and also to write, and so this is a way to share both.
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