Tag Archives: fear

Razor’s Edge

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Helen

I’m on the razor’s edge Of impossibilities On every road to choose A hungry devil waits Caught in the cold Implacable hands of fate From this trajectory I can’t deviate I’m barely breathing When the road before Is too straight … Continue reading →

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Fear

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Helen

You were right to fear We are here It is far too late To remediate We will slake our thirst On you first You were right to fear We are here And though none believed No reprieve Underneath your bed … Continue reading →

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Saw It Coming

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Helen

I saw it coming But you refused to see You shut your eyes And turned away from me The mirrored image Showed the tumults sway You wouldn’t notice You just looked away I saw it coming Saw it take you … Continue reading →

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Dragon’s Breath

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Helen

Feel me breathe My fire breath I am license I am death Warm your heart Your icy bones Give you most When you’re alone Dragon’s breath Wilder heart Where they finish Where I start Feel me breathe My fire breath … Continue reading →

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Tunnel

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Helen

Light and depth perception Distort Whirring air like a dragon breathing Around us all the dark is seething Train tracks cracking All are bleeding Tunnel sport It’s just human interaction Cascades Knives are slashing in the depths Make no sound, … Continue reading →

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Floating Far Downstream for Tale-Weaver’s Prompt 26

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

Isolation’s prison here defines My limitations, all I see Silence punctuated by Discordant, harsh cacophony And sharp, blood soaked imagery Deep within the soul of me And feeding on my energy There’s nothing else, no more for me No more … Continue reading →

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Fifteen minutes – for Speed Challenge, Prompt 70

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Helen

I followed mindlovemisery’s lead yesterday for the 10 poems in 20 minutes challenge and found it a really mind opening, artistic release. So why not try again, like her, this time with a different time limit? I went for 15 … Continue reading →

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Pure

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Helen

Half starved lying supine gazing at the iridescent sky May I partake of nature’s cure? Give me succour Make it pure make it pure You said we were just fiddlesticks left out in mid winter rain Each part of a … Continue reading →

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Moments – for Prompt 62 Mamihlapinatape

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Helen

Too precipitate the moments Wordless knowledge scattered here Like children’s toys left out In early summer’s rain Speak not to me Of half the truth Of courage yet Have greater proof While only these lost memories remain Too gentle is … Continue reading →

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Hallway Steps

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Helen

These hallway steps lead to nowhere or to somewhere far, far worse I’ve heard it told in whispered corners all these things that they would warn us Talk of devils and of danger and a curse These hallways steps lead … Continue reading →

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