Tag Archives: dark

Charon

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Helen

I cannot cross here to the shore I’ve lingered thus so long before In dreams in nightmares and in life I’ve felt the whip, the lash, the knife I know these waters run aground I know the promise they surround … Continue reading →

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Within

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Helen

The light barely breaks The cloying darkness Here within I’m wild with longing Never dreaming Of anything but sin The gentlest creatures In my forest Should harken to the sound For every promise There’s the whiplash Coming silent, sure around … Continue reading →

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The Wildness and the Blade, for Prompt 78 Persephone

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Helen

These childhood games we played The wildness and the blade We’d never shed one tear Our blood ran thick as fear This bride to death in black Calls to retreating backs Cross tempest wretched sky Her ululating cry Each bone is broken, … Continue reading →

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World Outside

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Helen

There is a whole world waiting outside I don’t care There are lush fields brimming with green Growing there Within my home everything’s dark All is despair There is a whole world living outside I’m not there Watch how the … Continue reading →

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Scandal

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Helen

Years ago now it was said she played a dangerous, exciting game and of her many suitors only one could take the blame, he lay bleeding in the scandal’s wake and never was the same It caused an internet sensation … Continue reading →

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Tunnel

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Helen

Light and depth perception Distort Whirring air like a dragon breathing Around us all the dark is seething Train tracks cracking All are bleeding Tunnel sport It’s just human interaction Cascades Knives are slashing in the depths Make no sound, … Continue reading →

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Too Sweet for Prompt 74 The Hollow Men by TS Elliot

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Helen

I have stepped across this threshold Mr Devil I can see you In that shrunken blackened doorway See your bony hand there beckoning Like a tide returning to the beach I hear your slyly sibilant, silent speech Making promises, and … Continue reading →

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Slice

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

We slice your veins Your human remains Your white dress textured By dried blood stains And from such pleasures None would refrain None would refrain We bind your hands With intricate plans Down to your mind’s core Our savagery spans … Continue reading →

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Floating Far Downstream for Tale-Weaver’s Prompt 26

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

Isolation’s prison here defines My limitations, all I see Silence punctuated by Discordant, harsh cacophony And sharp, blood soaked imagery Deep within the soul of me And feeding on my energy There’s nothing else, no more for me No more … Continue reading →

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Bring On the Night – for Prompt 72 Sister Awake

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Helen

The year they dared to capture this fallen angel, they tore her wings and mounted them upon the wall, her limbs secured by steel tipped strings The men that gathered there to see this unholy but sacred sight blinked, dazed … Continue reading →

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