Free from thought
Free from time
Free from consequence
Free from crime
Free from circumstance
Free from fear
Free from sympathy
Free from cheer
Free from thoughts now
Free from strife
May as well be
Free from life
© Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
I desire
to go the distance
of the fire
Ambition
is my true mistress
I’ll not tire
I prefer
the higher mountain
here to climb
I’ll revere
the call of reason
not the rhyme
I desire
to go the distance
I demand
Aspiring
for no resistance
Perfect, planned
© Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
Sshhhh! (Photo credit: rofi)
You have the best kept secret of all
They’d never know or guess
How far you’d stoop or fall
You hide your crimes in plain sight
The whiplash of comedy
Is a beacon far too harsh and bright
For years your truer self
Hid complete behind arched brow
All your secrets on your shelf
You have the best kept secret, I sense
You are the king of all perversity
The first, true master of pretence
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The day dawns less grey
Less oppressive seems the sun
And lights that lead the way
show simpler pathways here to run
Your name is not a beating
repetition in my heart
No image of your leaving
haunts each day now as it starts
I check but cannot feel now
your essence in my bones
I’m content and do not notice
the silent telephone
Recovery was gradual
as silently it grew
A miracle of time now
and one I never knew
© Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
The Games You Play (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
You never knew fair play
It never was your way
For those who follow rules
Brought derision and dismay
You always played to win
No sense of dark or sin
All others were just fools
Who never could begin
To play your darker sport
Their actions came to nought
And so it is with me
As in your web I’m caught
You never knew fair play
No virtues to display
It’s how it had to be
You don’t care anyway
© Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
Fresh Fruit Cocktails (Photo credit: Kirti Poddar)
Sweet seductions
Perfect passions
Fruitful frisson
Succulent spice
Tropical treats
Majestic mango
Spritely spirits
Nourishing, nice
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There is a new dynamic here
Eyes cannot hold their gaze
There’s something different in you dear
A weaker connection now I fear
Your eyes distracted, glazed
A new dynamic takes its place
Within our complex games
A dark, distorted, angular place
And of love and mercy not a trace
We cannot be the same
This new dynamic grows from old
Evolution to our souls
It’s there in all the lies we’ve told
And I’m certain, should I be so bold
We neither care nor can control
© Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
Curiosity
Hi
I’m excited to say the global distribution journey for Curiosity is now complete, with it being available now not only at lulu.com as ebook and POD, but also in both forms at Amazon, as ebook at Apple iStore, and now also NOOK as a POD and ebook. The NOOK POD link is:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/curiosity-helen-valentina/1117336145?ean=9781483403656
And the NOOK ebook link is:
So if that’s your preferred platform and you are curious about Curiosity, you can get your copy there! (If you prefer one of the other platforms for purchase check out the links at the Curiosity page above).
If you like your comedy dark and your satire a bit brattish and vicious, you’ll like Curiosity!! Come take a walk on the dark side of humor with me!!
Cheers
Helen V
To speak the truth so long past now
I am not certain I can try
I know not where I may begin
To be so certain I don’t lie
And do I dare and would I choose
To risk it all to just deny?
It’s not as though I mean such harm
It’s only that I fear to try
So long ago we danced a dance
It seems a shimmering memory
And now I could believe it true
None of such drama came to me
It’s just reflection in a glass
A stranger world I once believed
A story from a master’s pen
To see it so I’d be relieved
And yet the truth demands its place
It’s too submerged to be the light
And so I’d dare the gods themselves
To finally say that I was right
And if I wasn’t, then accept
The crueller charge of fantasy
I’d dare it yet to be the fool
But time has hidden truth from me
© Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
Under the Sea (Photo credit: Tora da Explora)
Swim carefully
The tendrils here are deadly
They curl and coil about you
To draw you further in
Swim cautiously
The many coloured fish are all
Siren songs to your decline
Beautiful assassins
Swim hopefully
Within the web of blue and white
The sun sprinkled up above
Reflections to the surface
Swim carefully
Enemy waters may yet beguile
And to the deeper darkness draw
Your childlike innocence
© Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
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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