Tag Archives: denial

Craving

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Helen

I have travelled so far to see you I have journeyed on light and on words Slipped through parallel space just to find you Flown for miles, sister here to the birds I have struggled to gain all the answers … Continue reading →

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Pictures of You

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Helen

These pictures of you Are tattered by time I hide from their view Then surrender sublime I’ll say I forsake them I’ll say I forget But these pictures of you Are haunting me yet I’ve lived through three lifetimes Or … Continue reading →

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Carnivale

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Helen

Carnivale Of carnivores On with the show Blood rich life So adored In depths below Coloured lights Creatures strange Paraded for art Souls are lost To our cost Stabbed through the heart Carnivale Of troubadours Singing of sin If you … Continue reading →

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New School

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Helen

New school Just like the old school There’s nothing like An old fool This is not celebration This is condemnation Living by the rules New thought Just like the old thought Curricula Just as we always taught This is not … Continue reading →

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Alice

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Helen

Alice has fallen Through the glass again This life-like absurdity Raised to literary art Perversity in poetry She’s dancing with the mad again There’s secrets here Hid deep within The whirl of disordered thought Alice isn’t quite a child Not … Continue reading →

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Freefall

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Helen

Freefall Vertigo has caught me rushing down to fast approaching ground Thoughts splinter beating with my heart Bones breaking tearing me apart Freefall Time released me Something forgotten lost for all time Sweet oblivion give me your embrace Final death … Continue reading →

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Samson

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Helen

Samson, eye your lesser morning With true strength just leeched away Where your locks of such adorning Where precision for your prey? Oh such mighty power is falling And your God’s abandoned you Where the surety of your calling Where … Continue reading →

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He Said, She Said

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Helen

He said A pure moment Must be captured And kept still Like a flower pressed Against a page She said No moment’s pure All is change Cannot remain And will be free And all the rest’s Captivity He said To … Continue reading →

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Withdraw

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Helen

I withdraw from you I’m moving further for a safer view I decline your voice I used to kid myself I had a choice Ah then, but we both know You played me like a violin on show I disavow … Continue reading →

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Prompt 7 – Nonsense Madness – Sixteen

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Helen

Sixteen days, sixteen hours, Sixteen minutes I saw sixteen flies Around the carcass What? What did you say? Oh, you think You’re very clever then Sixteen One plus six is seven All good children go to heaven Cosmic jokesters all … Continue reading →

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