Tag Archives: dissociation

Dance With The Dead

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Helen

Friends break bread And dance with the dead Ghosts are prized Truth in their eyes Pantomime Lost within time Friends drink wine Demonic, divine See them dance Life’s final chance Night of pure death Mist on the breath Donning their … Continue reading →

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Transcend

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Helen

Between us all perhaps Are threads of light Shimmering For those with eyes to see Ephemeral connection Pulsing with pure love Every moment As we breathe The mystics say that God is One And so it seems are we In … 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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Nothing Personal

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Helen

Nothing personal Wrong place, wrong night Nothing personal In a gaze returned Nothing deliberate In communion made Nothing legitimate In lessons learned Nothing personal In games we played Quite immaterial What we denied Nothing deliberate In trust so broken Nothing … Continue reading →

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Ritual

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Helen

I fled before the ritual Sliced deep within my heart Denied the rank habitual That tore each choice apart My thoughts so pathological In shadows found my twin Wore masks phantasmagorical Down the rabbit hole we spin Ecstatic in the … Continue reading →

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Dazed and Confused

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Helen

There were moments of pure clarity When the light shone so bright I could almost see reality There were harbingers that night Of a darker type of fealty When the strangeness seemed so right And what it was seemed real … Continue reading →

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Palindrome 1 and 2

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Helen

Hi, just a couple of attempts at a poetic form (palindrome) I recently learnt about and which I found intriguing and challenging…not sure I have mastered it in either of the poems below (whether they are technically long enough or follow all … Continue reading →

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Carnival

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Helen

Light spangled carnival A terror of clowns Jangling music plays Discordant sounds Within these shadows cast Secrets abound Who was that riding The merry-go-round? Carnival creatures play Games you can’t win Mazes return now to Where you begin Mirrors repeat … Continue reading →

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Born to You

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Helen

In this dreamworld I am born to you In this illusion Feel me warm to you I’m a prisoner Of this flickering view I dance this dance That wears a darker hue And yet I dream To find the smallest … Continue reading →

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Asylum

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Helen

Give me shelter My mind has shattered before an unimaginable force Give me a home I am an alien to my own soul My mirror reflects a stranger Give me protection The battle I have seen internally is but devils … Continue reading →

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