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Life on Mars

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Helen

Mars, 2001, with the southern polar ice cap visible on the bottom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

May as well seek for life on Mars
In these hallways only ghosts walk
And it’s been this way for years

Dust is dancing in the sunlight
And such hearts left here forsaken
Are just listless memories
And melodies to silence
And regret

May as well believe in life on Mars
Faith such a strange, sweet aberration
For this place lost deep in time

Believing someday love returns
Is just a fantasy that’s roasting
On the spit of its own fallacy
And all of this just melodies
To silence and regret

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged belief, choice, dark, delusion, denial, dissociation, Life, madness, Mars, memory, pain, passion, Planets | 9 Comments

Folk Tale

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Helen

Arthur Rackham, illustration to Hansel and Gretel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Story handed down through time
The moral lost in years
And tears
Caught in the rhythm and the rhyme
A tale of consequence
And fears
Folk tales linger long beyond
The time for bed
And evening tears

Could it be that once this tale
Was even truer
Than we thought?
What lost remnants here curtailed
In evening gossamer
Cruelly caught?
Folk tales linger long beyond
The lessons that
They’ve taught

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged dark, delusion, Dreams, fairy tale, Folklore, lessons, Literature, moral, Tales, World Tales | 4 Comments

Summer Fruits

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Helen

夏日水果盘 Summer Fruit Platter – Easy East (Photo credit: avlxyz)

Lazy days
Mid afternoon heat
Languorous looking
For a long-lost treat
Summer fruits spilling
Like gold at my feet

Hot afternoons
Spent with friends and wine
Convivial, constant
Pleasure is a crime
Summer fruits glisten
Like everything fine

Lost evening hours
The balcony replete
With benefits, bursting
The blessing complete
Summer fruits spilling
Like gold at my feet

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged food, Fruit, heat, Musings, parties, summer, Summer fruit | 12 Comments

Delusion – for Prompt 48 Escalating Humiliation

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Helen

Image credit: wallpaperhere.com

For one moment to be right
To have felt something, anything
Warm in my direction
Not some sad and lost reflection
Of a prize that’s so forbidden
From my life

Did he smile and gaze my way
Feel some attraction, some real yearning
Something sensual and longing
So at last I am belonging
To a world of those who know love
In their life?

See I blush and call his name
Across the courtyard, cross my heart
But as he frowns and looks my way
I find I’ve nothing more to say
He’s looking past me for the one that
He might love

And they’re laughing and deriding
As he turns away, indifferent
Just a delusion swift retreating
Gives my heart another beating
Fool to believe that for one moment
I’d be loved

For it’s another that he’s craving
Not my plain, my simple being
Childish taunts are here returning
Into bitter memories they’re burning
How I’ll never find a lover
In this life

For mindlovemisery’s prompt at: http://mindlovemisery.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/prompt-48-escalating-humiliation/

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged choice, cruelty, dark, delusion, denial, Dreams, humiliation, lost love, madness, pain, passion, prompt, public embarrassment, rejection, truth | 11 Comments

Procession

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Helen

The procession of my days
gives way
to slow encroaching age
Each page
is written deep in blood
and floods
my mind with memories
that tease

The procession of these hours
have powers
to make the past within
akin
to something sad and lost
A host
for a feast of darker days
displayed

The procession of my life
A knife
that cuts my bloodless skin
within
Reminds me of my choice
This voice
which bids me now to lose regret
and forget

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged acceptance, age, aging, Aspiration, belief, choice, dark, denial, Dreams, Life, memory, Musings, Philosophy, procession, truth | 19 Comments

The Home Fire is here!

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Helen

And now it is available!! Briana’s new book! Time to check it out!! 🙂 🙂

When I Became an Author

Drum roll please! The Home Fire is finally here! Whew! What a long road to publication this little book has had! First written nearly three years ago, it sat-alone and forgotten-for months and months before I began re-writing it. Then came the always fun editing stage, cover design, formatting, and publication date (okay, so maybe not exactly in that order).

So I am very glad I am finally finished with this book. It is a good feeling, to reach a finish line, for sure. Now, I can only pray that no mistakes will be brought to my attention, giving me reason to do any more work on this book. As much as I love each and every one of my books, I only want to have to re-write them once. Don’t get me wrong, spending time with the little bundles of joy is a wonderful thing…unless I’m editing for the…

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2014 Novella

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Helen

Another YA novella from Briana Vedsted coming soon! Spread the word and be among the first to get your copy!! 🙂

When I Became an Author

Prepare yourself for the journey of a lifetime! As the world journeys from Winter’s icy grasp to the warm embrace of Spring, begin another adventure alongside Kidd, Dan, and Shey Tate, the three young orphans who are searching for a place to call home. In my new book, The Home Fire, you’ll walk step-by-step beside bold, brave Kidd, kindhearted Dan, and toddling Shey, from their Indian-ravaged birthplace into the vast unknown in search of a new life and a place to once again light their home fire.

Coming March 20th, 2014! Don’t miss this Young Adult novella! Will be available on Amazon as both an eBook and a paperback! Purchasable through other retailers soon after!

Please help me spread the word by re-blogging this post!!!

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Cats

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Helen

Feral Cats (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The cats know
There are places
They will not go

It’s feline grace
To so completely
Know their space

The cats sense
All the losses and
The expense

If you call upon
Their sweetest care
They are long gone

The cats are
Not what they seem
They’re a dark star

Call them any name
They’ll ignore you
Just the very same

The cats know
There are places
They will not go

If you go there
They’d not tell you that
You should beware

If you go there
And you’re lost to all
They will not care

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged animal, beware, Cat, choice, dark, delusion, denial, Dreams, mystery, nursery rhyme, Pets, truth | 19 Comments

Legends of Windemere: Family of the Tri-Rune! On Sale Now!

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Helen

The next great instalment of Charle Yallowitz’ fantasy series has arrived – be among the first to get your copy!!

Legends of Windemere

Cover Art by Jason Pedersen

Legends of Windemere: Family of the Tri-Rune has Arrived!!!

Buy it Here for $2.99!

Book Blurb:

The magical adventure continues after Luke Callindor and his friends recover from their battles in Haven.

Nyx still has nightmares about casting the genocide spell in Hero’s Gate. Every night her heart is gripped by the sensation of hundreds of goblins dying by her magic. By the request of Lord Highrider and Duke Solomon, she is returning to fix the damage she caused. With Luke Callindor and Sari by her side, Nyx is ready to face the vengeful goblins and opportunistic thieves that plague Hero’s Gate. Yet, there is a darker threat that was born from her violated magic: The Krypters.

It is another action-packed, character driven story that will reveal one of our heroes has been lied to for their entire life.

Wondering what you’re in for?…

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