Tag Archives: madness

Degradation

Meet me in the darkened places The city streets Purged and empty In the small hours Before the merciless morning Meet me in the cloying shadows Lurking by the roadside Beggars crying Restless in sleep Stolen by interminable hunger Meet … Continue reading

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Confused

Poor Janus is so confused Looking left and right And to the front The past a distant memory The future looming close to see And in the present never free Poor Janus locked away On medication meant to soothe His … Continue reading

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Burning

I heard a voice Incarnate and separate Splintering the dawn Calling my name The stridency alarming As though I’d lost my way In the depths of the night What words shimmer In the morning air? The fragments of a dream … Continue reading

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Moment – for Prompt 55 Slowly Dawning Horror

There was a moment when you stood upon the stair and all the lights of the world coalesced cascading in your lustrous hair, and men in rooms played billiards into the night And you thought you could still make it … Continue reading

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Jasmine Nights

Jasmine nights Down corridors we wander and whisper such dark delights Could be the brother or the sister of the Northern Lights So soft, so bright Lost melody In dusty pages of unopened books find a sign of me Is that … Continue reading

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Again

Are we seeing it again? Eyes averred to those in need Are we pampering the egos That grow fat on blood and greed? Are we seeing it again? Are we hearing it again? Rhetoric of wilful right Do we count … Continue reading

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Risen

Blackened eagle Wings through putrid sky Storms brewing Hunger and terror Blind sisters they weave Darker thread Demon regal Hooded piercing eye Wolf pursuing Spiritual error Forsaken hearts cleave To the dead (c) Helen Valentina 2014, All Rights Reserved

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Draw Card

Give me the draw card Give me some time I’ll bring the people You bring the crime Give me the headline Give me a star They’ll come to see this Travel afar Give me a tagline Zeitgeist is fed They … Continue reading

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Life on Mars

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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Delusion – for Prompt 48 Escalating Humiliation

For one moment to be right To have felt something, anything Warm in my direction Not some sad and lost reflection Of a prize that’s so forbidden From my life Did he smile and gaze my way Feel some attraction, … Continue reading

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