Tag Archives: Life

Precarious

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Helen

I’m balancing precariously Embracing life’s uncertainty Preparing for adversity But praying for the sun I’ll bet on my capacity To sell my true diversity To finally find the place for me To let my spirit run My life’s become hilarity … 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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Before the Sun

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Helen

In such races do not run Do not worry little one Deepest dark precedes the sun When you fall and hit the ground Little blood and littler sound Nothing new here to be found Life’s a game, a turn about … Continue reading →

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Lone Sentinel

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Helen

Lone Sentinel In this arid place Pondering our history Lone sentinel Take your rightful place In heart of mystery This tree of life Grows in dusty climes Roots seek nourishment Not forest lush No such sacred climes Give encouragement We stand … Continue reading →

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Eating the Bitter – for Prompt 62 Chi Ku

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Helen

We are all children of a diseased god Random atoms, we are scattered like seeds in fallow but deceiving earth We plough life with death to birth life anew The fruit so sweet upon our tongue turns rancid in our … Continue reading →

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Noli Me Tangere

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Helen

My tombstone reads Noli Me Tangere In death as was in life I would not love-born Children bear To no man be a wife And should they seek A lock of hair I gave instead a knife Noli Me Tangere … Continue reading →

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Nothing Matters – for Prompt 56 Indescribable Frustration

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Helen

This rock I push atop this hill I feel it settle well, until From life’s sweet canopy they spill This flotsam on my window sill Again I stress my task undone The cake unbaked, the weave un-spun Each furnish questions, … Continue reading →

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Life on Mars

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Helen

May as well seek for life on Mars In these hallways only ghosts walk And it’s been this way for years Dust is dancing in the sunlight And such hearts left here forsaken Are just listless memories And melodies to … Continue reading →

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Procession

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Helen

The procession of my days gives way to slow encroaching age Each page is written deep in blood and floods my mind with memories that tease The procession of these hours have powers to make the past within akin to … Continue reading →

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Too Many

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Helen

Too many years These pleasures pall Just salty tears Then none at all I seek to climb Only to fall Adrift in dreams A nightscape bright On weary lids Mere hope alights But as I reach It’s out of sight … Continue reading →

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