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The 1%
Rich Bastards Incorporated Smug and self satisfied Counting their riches Drunk on their pride Failure’s their talisman Profit from grief Got the predictions wrong? Act like a thief! Better to prophesise The weather next week Nothing much left in This … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged dark, Philosophy, shallow, social inequity, the one percent, Wealth
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Despair
Despair Engulfing terror The axe falling Bereft of all hope Stunned (c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
Anne Boleyn
Eyes raised to the sky Quiet dignity Breathe your last From here for centuries poets, philosophers, readers of history will debate the merit or the tragedy of this one terrible moment None us us knowing you but for your letters … Continue reading
Alchemical Chess
‘In chess Someone must play The dark pieces’ she said It struck me as a revelation of a deeper, sadder truth Through irritation the pearl is formed Through adversity strength and honor shine Through age wisdom may emerge What is … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Poetry
Tagged alchemy, chess, choice, dark, Musings, Philosophy, Spiritual
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Shock Freefall
There was a moment I stood transfixed trying to assimilate what I had heard Could I process this revelation? Moreover could I believe? The balance, so complex and deceiving Would I even know, be able to see? Something so quiet … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Poetry
Tagged acceptance, belief, choice, dark, denial, Philosophy, shock, truth
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Fairy Tale
A poem based on a dream I once had…………….. A wicked man once held his love Within his house of dreams Where walls were doors and doors were walls Was nothing as it seems? And for her, in place of … Continue reading
Masks
See this pattern falling, rising Hear these words, though not surprising All our future, we’re surmising is our true selves much disguising In these hallways of invention sinews stretched with patient tension Find the lies we could not mention hold … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged choice, dark, denial, hidden, lies, Life, masks, passion, Philosophy, Relationships
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Losing My Religion
I once believed By being the change You wanted to see You could make it be I thought it would last The edifice built Through first being kind You’d not fall behind A small piece of faith A purpose of … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Poetry
Tagged Aspiration, battle, belief, change, dark, disappointment, honour, People, Politics, Relationships, Spiritual, strugge, war
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Butterfly Scars
Across her skin scarified Are the markers of all her pains, her joys and hopes raised high, cut deep within starkly visible to the eye This strange affliction caused by surfeit of feeling? These signs of tribulation some may call … Continue reading
For Beauty’s Sake
For beauty’s sake I take the brush And soft caress my face In shadowed contours may I hide The flaws I would replace Till gathered in conformity I vanish without trace? These colours of the fashion world Might jar against … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged Aspiration, Beauty, dark, denial, Dreams, fashion, pain, self-image
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