Tag Archives: denial

People Like Us

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Helen

People like us should be quarantined from society People like them never realise what they have seen People like us play our dark little games like puppeteers People like them don’t understand they live in a dream People like us … Continue reading →

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Guinevere’s Lament

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Helen

You will know my name As betrayal, infamy Great love forsaken for greater passion And a hidden intimacy Remembered in myth and legend And by scholars here discussed As though this did not happen To just people, to just us Songs … Continue reading →

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Tuxedo Nights

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Helen

I no longer yearn for tuxedo nights Glamour holds no sway on me Visceral hunger for elegantry Is frozen as a winter strewn lake I would no longer hold Gatsby’s hand Give him shelter in the jazz age Swinging softly … Continue reading →

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I Remember

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Helen

I remember your deep, glittering eyes Reaching mine I remember your soft, beautiful voice Trapped in time I remember your pain, of such depth Reaching out I remember the passion, blood stricken Leeching out I remember the madness of guile … Continue reading →

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Full Circle

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Helen

My friend, your words are still calling cards You still repeat the themes you should not know, should not have heard, reverberating your view had you been invited to the conversation So many years since their staccato, strange momentum was … Continue reading →

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Cold Case

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Helen

Our history is a cold case Dissected on a table Dusty memories now covered No-one has looked within For years Our passion is on cold ice Freezing like its birth-right Trapped within a photo A memory mostly forgotten In tears … Continue reading →

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Forget Her – For Prompt 14 – The Music of Jeff Buckley

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Helen

The debris of these many years alights your mind like a firecracker out of season; a chance sighting on the street of similar hair, a similar walk and memories flooded back A dam unstuck, overwhelming And you thought you could … Continue reading →

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Mistake

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Helen

A click on the keyboard A stroke of the pen Decision made in haste Miscalculates, and then All we know of hell And all we’d know of heaven Descends A word brusquely spoken A tear soaked voice Denial of true … Continue reading →

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Trenchcoat Song

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Helen

Trenchcoat covers Neck against a chill That slivers down the alleyway All the way to hell Frost upon the grass breaks As stranger’s feet tread by Players roll their dice to see Who may live or die High heeled, cool … Continue reading →

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Dark Parade

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Helen

I have not yet Been consumed by lust or love I’ve flown above The act while it was made Just curiosity For all the games we’ve played I have not known My soul, this dark parade I have not yet … Continue reading →

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