Tag Archives: darkness

Prescience

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Helen

I had a sense of you long before you came through my door I felt a chill in the early morning breeze and noted sickness take the ivy in the eaves around my home I felt the earth beneath shudder … Continue reading →

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Days

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Helen

I wrap my days with little tasks Chores and thought aimed to distract From this relentless sense of lack My time is filled with petty fights And aims from which all soul departs Out of banality, these daily arts Provide … Continue reading →

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Safeguard

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Helen

I must safeguard my soul From darkness trickling Cross my pallid skin They say an invitation draws it in Draws it in Must barricade my heart A dream’s a hopeless place Here true despair begins They say that praying merely … Continue reading →

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Concubine

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Helen

I was your concubine of perversity Across your twisted mind the games we’d played Were the rivulets where the stitches frayed What did you say when just standing there The lonely man upon the highest stair All the butterflies nesting … Continue reading →

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Razor’s Edge

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Helen

I’m on the razor’s edge Of impossibilities On every road to choose A hungry devil waits Caught in the cold Implacable hands of fate From this trajectory I can’t deviate I’m barely breathing When the road before Is too straight … Continue reading →

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Girl and the Raven

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Helen

The girl and the raven appear at the morn Awash with the tears she has shed before dawn She’s floating in white, a mere sprite of despair Combing her memories through her dark hair The raven’s a psychopomp calling her … Continue reading →

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Slave to Love for Prompt 75, Influence of the Dark Side

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Helen

I feast on your desires like scraps from a wretched beggar’s table. In this I am a myriad of choices to acquiesce and follow and become the thing I once most despised; this insipid, crawling death of sensibility and morality, … Continue reading →

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Bad For You

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Helen

You had to go there didn’t you? You had to see this story through You had to follow on a glance And build your world on circumstance You had to wonder at a smile You lingered there a little while … Continue reading →

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Regret

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Helen

Within our town the shutters drawn Tell tales without our words No prescience could yet have barred Such crimes as here occurred Where once mere kindness might have lived Companion to our hearts Here now the winter’s deeper chill Ensures … Continue reading →

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Lucifer’s Song – for Prompt 57 – Shock and Seething Rise to Vengeance

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Helen

Where once were allies, are now foes This battle started long ago Your kingdom spoke of love and care Angelic music flowing there A harmony, a table round This depth of fealty so profound You promised much, you promised all … Continue reading →

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