Tag Archives: hope

All Your Colours

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Helen

I remember all your colours I don’t think you ever saw them Always searching for the more You were blind to all within And perhaps it was your mother’s words The balm of yesteryear That held you such a prisoner … Continue reading →

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Above it All

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Helen

We float above it all This glorious shining city Of the free We sing across the spheres Triumphant glory songs For the free Adrift among the stars We cannot lose our way When we are free The universe is ours … Continue reading →

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Possibility

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Helen

Admit me in To the possibility I have remained a novice All this time Read my books And learned my lines Awaiting on The appointed moment When the doors would open wide And welcome me inside Give me hope Through … Continue reading →

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Gabriel

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Helen

And he said rejoice Great tidings do I bring A prophecy An offering And music heralded across the sky One time One long, long time ago Now he plays on city streets He cries rejoice To every stranger that he … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Afternoons

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Helen

Sweet forgotten afternoons You don’t recall But pressed within my memory book I see them all The way the light fell Through the leaves Upon your hair And the messy, noisy children Running everywhere And how you’d say “This season … Continue reading →

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Trust (Part One)

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Helen

In you we trust Blindfolded Waiting here Desperate We must World just falls to chaos No sure anchor Yet appears We’re just waiting here In trust May your words Yet be true As you say Belief is hard Absurd Is … Continue reading →

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Fresh ingredients

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Helen

Next year We’ll use fresh ingredients Juggling choices To suit our palettes Life’s finest chefs Run on knowledge And instinct combined And with age and with time So shall we Next year It’s a new recipe Next year We’ll combine … Continue reading →

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Moontide

Posted on September 23, 2017 by Helen

Awaiting the waning moon This lost sea-shore At the last moments Of earthly time We counted the pebbles As if in their number Some final revelation Of heavenly design Would save us just in time, just in time Silvery and … Continue reading →

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Starlight Dreaming

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Helen

Young child Starlight dreaming Heaven’s up above A different kind of love Streaming Reaching to the child Window ledge below Could he touch the stars All that life debars On show? Young child Starlight yearning Dying stars alight His for … Continue reading →

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Desolation

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Helen

In desolation we may fly Be free When all is lost Then nothing’s left to lose And nor are we A broken road Is still a way And all we may believe In desolation we are reborn And free In … Continue reading →

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