Tag Archives: death

One More

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Helen

One more they cry One more A moment further to delay The fall of the axe The toll of the bell One more they plead One more A day is all Worth fighting for One more One more they say … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged ambition, balance, death, Dreams, fools, hope, Life, Love, lovers, trials, trying | 4 Comments

Digging Deep

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Helen

Delving in the past To find our future Little rest And far less sleep We were digging deep Our ancestors’ lives Create a blood link Running thick Down mountains steep We were digging deep Is your forbear In your furrowed … Continue reading →

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged alien, ancestry, blood, death, different, digging, family, Life, origins | Leave a comment

Outside

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Helen

I am my own jailor You don’t hold the key I am colder within Than the outside of me I gaze from my cell block To winter strewn day I laugh at your feeble Attempts to dismay Inside I am … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged dark, death, doubt, existential, Frozen, internal, jail, nihilism, Pessimism, pointlessness | Leave a comment

Dragon’s Breath

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Helen

Feel me breathe My fire breath I am license I am death Warm your heart Your icy bones Give you most When you’re alone Dragon’s breath Wilder heart Where they finish Where I start Feel me breathe My fire breath … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged danger, death, dragon, fear, fire, freedom, Love, lust, woman | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged Charon, choice, cycles, dark, death, ferryman, Life, passage, reincarnation, trapped | 12 Comments

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 →

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged blood, dark, death, demeter, Life, myth, perspehone, prompt, rites, ritual, sacrifice, summer, wild, winter | 13 Comments

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 →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged dark, death, fear, Games, tunnel, tunnel vision | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged dark love, darkness, death, dishonour, influence, love slave, manipulation, nuclear explosion, oppenheimer, prompt, twisted | 12 Comments

Lonely Goal

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Helen

Just one drop within the sea Merge with All so endlessly Mermaids whisper, return to me Return to me Just one star within the sky Multi faceted pinpoint eye Gone already, it’s just a lie Just a lie Just one … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged Afterlife, collective, Consciousness, death, divine, enlightenment, Grace, individual, loss, Love, mysticism, soul, spirit, Spiritual | 3 Comments

Reaching for Photo Challenge 28 Climbing the Walls

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Helen

I can hear you Dear departed summer boy You’re trickling up and down these walls With every jagged breath My wretched heart calls And I’m floating Not afraid that I may fall I can touch you Ephemeral as summer rain … Continue reading →