Tag Archives: gods

The Stuff of Dying Stars

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Helen

We are the stuff of dying stars Sprinkled in a hostile and strange firmament Seeking home Or the debris of asteroids Hurtling across time Carbon molecules Like miracles rising in the womb Just one more time An accident of cosmic … Continue reading →

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Lost Seraphim

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Helen

Up in the stratosphere I see you dance Lost seraphim so little understood Lumbering silent though the aching sky Once heralded as gods of circumstance Offering pain or offering good Till they stopped believing by and by If you stray … Continue reading →

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Connected

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Helen

Across the city the electricity yearns to touch each trembling soul and I awake in the middle of the night to tremble, shake within my very core this deep earthquake of being known Our separateness we take for granted only … Continue reading →

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New Year

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Helen

I’ve had insults, pain and slights Life has shown me such delights Sometimes I’ve stood prepared to fight Sometimes I’ve turned away Monotony of day to day Where little matters anyway Just entertainments on display For whom we cannot say … Continue reading →

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Damaged

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Helen

Deep inside you are somehow damaged like a building which finds foundations rotting slowly at the core Your soul is a whirling dervish yet bereft of spiritual solace or a purpose just a wild and feckless thing In your bloodline … Continue reading →

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Duality

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Helen

Such as they Such as we Old gods turn On twisted boards Wearing new faces Hiding true souls Such as they Such as we Proper proportion Duality Fear is sister To bravery Darkness seeks to Define the light What is … Continue reading →

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The Age of Belief

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Helen

So hard to sustain Pure faith, true belief Over years When youth’s fire is in the veins There is hubris enough To overshadow doubts and fears We clasp our hopes like talisman And link hand in hand with gods and … Continue reading →

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Chess

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Helen

Kingdoms lost At bleak break of day Count the cost Foolish game Each expendable Just the same We’re so small Our hopes do not count Not at all Even kings Cannot turn the tide Not a thing Gods will play … Continue reading →

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A God’s Life

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Helen

Immemorial, immaterial Immortal This terrible existence Without end Competing energy electric Sing your symphonies In incorporeal space And of any earlier mercy Not a trace Revered in legend, longing Lamentations A god’s life spans Everything Personality of vibrancy Peculiar vernacular … Continue reading →

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Olympus Falls

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Helen

Olympus falls these days But incremental degrees Each country’s governments Abject, on their knees So rife with ill-intent Than none can please The gods of old are gone They neither care nor know Of petty battles here Of regimes overthrown … Continue reading →

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