Tag Archives: fall

Paradise Lost

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Helen

When you fell my little one you knew What you had lost A moment too late is still too late And wings won’t raise you up Above your choices You glide safe down To where you may yet land Survey … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged angels, fall, Fallen, forget, home, loss, regret, wings | 5 Comments

Checkmate in Hell

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Helen

They put you in checkmate in hell The floor beneath your penitent feet Seems to smirk and whisper Too late, too late! You played your games Feeling immortal as only Foolish mortals might And when no fires greeted you For … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged checkmate, chess, darkness, fall, fear, foolishness, hell, pride, Spiritual | 3 Comments

Dusty Path

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Helen

All roads lead to that dusty path Sleeping deep below Or fed as ashes to the bitter wind Swept up or buried All the little dreams Dissolve in the cruel Implacability of time The earth heaves its weary skin Revolutions … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged abuse, earth, fall, futility, history, kingdoms, poetry, slavery, threat, time | 5 Comments

My Wings

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Helen

My wings are not those Of an angel Not light No feathers of white Caress my back Instead they are steel And claw and bone The wings of a dragon Flying alone My wings are not pure Falling from heaven … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged dragon, fall, fire, flight, heaven, light, moon, steel, white, wings | 7 Comments

The Devil in Love

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Helen

Falling light Caress the sky It’s been so long Recollections are gone And what did you repay For heaven’s silent song? Waking age A youthful bloom Heartbeats remain A cold and faithless friend And what would you now give To … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged birth, day, devil, fall, heaven, loss, Love, lucifer, night, starlight | 4 Comments

Approach

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Helen

This approaches now by water Or by fire We may ride the wave triumphant Or expire We may warm our skin by sunshine Or we burn We are gone in one brief instant Or return This approaches like the dawn … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry, Water | Tagged approach, fall, need, portent, rise, Sun, sunrise, Water | 6 Comments

Fractured – for Prompt 54 A vastly important secret

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Helen

Oh little ones I felt the fall The splintering among you all As heavens opened I espied The way you wailed, you fell and cried What once was One had to rebel And what this brings the brave don’t tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged dark, fall, God, lucifer, prompt, religion, secret, souls, Spiritual | 13 Comments

I : for Prompt 27 Curse

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Helen

The I that is I rages against all unity Ferociously independent, unique consciousness may yearn for connectedness but not at the expense of the I Love is still self-referential Carrying the spark, the urge for self-knowledge through the mirror of … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged alchemy, belief, choice, cruelty, curse, dark, delusion, denial, fall, I, identity, individuality, lost love, lucifer, madness, memory, Philosophy, prompt, self identity, soul, Spiritual, truth | 24 Comments

Fall

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Helen

I understand your fall Somehow across the centuries I live and feel it all The fear and the intrigues Are familiar, I recall I somehow know them all A sword upon your throat The weaving of the politic Pretenders here … Continue reading →