Tag Archives: Life

Weep

Do not weep Behind your veil Do not weep There’ll be time For such travail Once you sleep Life is bleak You once said Now you know We have bent And we’ve bled As we go Do not weep Behind … Continue reading

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Scorpio

I am Scorpio This constellation Stings within The tails of shooting stars Four parts scorpion Hidden human Venus square To the hubris of Mars I am Scorpio Bride of twilight Delighting in Our lost mythology Psychic sister To this master … Continue reading

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Life passage

Glimpses of our mortality come too often these days Aching joints and muscles betray the youth we still feel sheltered here inside It is sobering this knowledge of the inevitability of decay All these little ambitions at our feet amount … Continue reading

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A Wish For You

I wish for you The softest summer light Dancing as a butterfly Upon the perfect flowers And even in life’s showers The gentlest of rain I wish for you Innocence unencumbered By life’s too bitter days Instead a golden path … Continue reading

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Rain

Gentle rain fall On lashes of open eyes Softly caressing Every sight Gentle rain touch A sun-drenched skin Droplets are crystals Perfect and bright Gentle raindrops Life force unleashed Clouds slowly rolling Most precious of light (c) Helen Valentina 2015, … Continue reading

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Water

You came to the water To look deep within The endless dark water To seek and to swim You dove in the rapids To ferry you forth In thrall to the tidelines Of limitless worth You came to the water … Continue reading

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Serenity

The traffic hum breaks the serenity Early morning, darkness bleaching From the cool and dappled sky Even now the hurried lives go by The hurried lives go by The moon’s still weeping up above us But the dawn is on … Continue reading

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Hope

These things they say of hope I cannot see them Find myself blind It seems to me that times of hope Were times that would precede despair It was the thing I clinged to When nothing else was there And … Continue reading

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Rest Tonight

I shall sleep under stars Which know not my name Wrapped in a cloak of a stranger Brief friend on ill trodden paths I will drink of cool waters Before resting my head On the grass by the foot Of … Continue reading

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One More

One more they cry One more A moment further to delay The fall of the axe The toll of the bell One more they plead One more A day is all Worth fighting for One more One more they say … Continue reading

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