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The Lie

You turn your head Your blood-red eyes to me And speak Your tone is low You almost glow it seems Yet weak Your time to come A different drum I see We stray I feel the fear It’s creeping near … Continue reading

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Again

Are we seeing it again? Eyes averred to those in need Are we pampering the egos That grow fat on blood and greed? Are we seeing it again? Are we hearing it again? Rhetoric of wilful right Do we count … Continue reading

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Falling At Your Feet – for Prompt 52 – Soul Scarring Regret

You were to me the epitome Of loss of innocence You’d hand out blame and use my name For games at my expense I deep regret and won’t forget When I first saw your face So drenched in sin where … Continue reading

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Risen

Blackened eagle Wings through putrid sky Storms brewing Hunger and terror Blind sisters they weave Darker thread Demon regal Hooded piercing eye Wolf pursuing Spiritual error Forsaken hearts cleave To the dead (c) Helen Valentina 2014, All Rights Reserved

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Picture Perfect

Not a hair out of place It’s been so long since we last met in parties brittle with laughter and with escapades we won’t forget Age has been kind to you or you’re clever Picture perfect you still seem While … Continue reading

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Crafty

She was sly and she was crafty She was clever, she was cold There were only lies and traps in All the stories that she told She was daughter to deception She was misdirection’s queen She was never on the … Continue reading

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Live Through This – for Prompt 50 Grim Determination

Live through this Life under your microscope Dull tones ringing silence A sigh of lost regret I try then to forget Each day I awoke to just sunlight Set to expose Live through this The madness of the drama queen’s … Continue reading

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Life on Mars

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 … Continue reading

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Folk Tale

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 … Continue reading

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Delusion – for Prompt 48 Escalating Humiliation

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, … Continue reading

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