Tag Archives: denial

Three

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Helen

Three times your name Three times the same Only difference Was the game First watched from afar Second casual and bizarre Third a foreign, twisted star Three times one heart Three ways apart Different endings Different start Three times your … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged cruelty, dark, denial, game, pain, passion, Relationships, strangeness | 9 Comments

To…?

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Helen

I ache Within Stricken with a hunger I cannot name On the tip of my tongue It tantalizes A memory of the lost Do you haunt me still? You seemed so gone I blessed the relief Found an ordinary life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged crime, cruelty, dark, denial, dissociation, Dreams, madness, pain, regret, Relationships, truth | 9 Comments

Self-Delusion Vs Self-Knowledge

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Helen

We only examine Truth we don’t like We readily accept The lies that we do We look for veracity In our depth of response We think if we feel it Then somehow it’s true If we find ourselves anxious We … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged acceptance, delusion, denial, Musings, Philosophy, self-knowledge, truth | 7 Comments

Memory

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Helen

Last night I dreamt of your house Like I was a ghost Visiting its past You were not there Only the memories Of the place itself Distorted somehow By the dream What does it say That my dreaming self Remembers … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged denial, memory, Musings, Relationships, shallow | 11 Comments

Failing Love

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Helen

A brittle man whose heart was closed Took more from life than he supposed By drawing to him beauty rare To make for him a world he chose His soul it seemed beyond repair He treated no-one with such care … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged dark, denial, loss, Love, Musings, Philosophy, Relationships | 5 Comments

Shock Freefall

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Helen

There was a moment I stood transfixed trying to assimilate what I had heard Could I process this revelation? Moreover could I believe? The balance, so complex and deceiving Would I even know, be able to see? Something so quiet … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged acceptance, belief, choice, dark, denial, Philosophy, shock, truth | 5 Comments

Masks

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Helen

See this pattern falling, rising Hear these words, though not surprising All our future, we’re surmising is our true selves much disguising In these hallways of invention sinews stretched with patient tension Find the lies we could not mention hold … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged choice, dark, denial, hidden, lies, Life, masks, passion, Philosophy, Relationships | 7 Comments

For Beauty’s Sake

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Helen

For beauty’s sake I take the brush And soft caress my face In shadowed contours may I hide The flaws I would replace Till gathered in conformity I vanish without trace? These colours of the fashion world Might jar against … Continue reading →