Tag Archives: madness

Hunger

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Helen

Within starvation’s eyes so many years desert bound and lost, he fed on little more than approbation and applause Displaying his frail skeleton like artwork Saying ‘this is me, come feast on shrivelled skin and carcass masquerading as delight’ And … Continue reading →

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The Fortune Teller

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Helen

Her room so dark and small I am quite lost Within it all I sit so quiet, meek I fear she has A crueller streak She eyes me like a prize As though I Realise Her cards are worn and … Continue reading →

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Beguiling Contradiction

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Helen

You sing your songs of half mystery half regret Calling across distance for my sympathy and yet my cause for confusion and fear I cannot forget You prowl your stage part hunger part fire Beguiling contradiction both wrath and desire … Continue reading →

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Seek

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Helen

Depth of feeling with you is a sickness; bleeding wound that never heals; no clinician can diagnose or remedy the cavity within, this lacuna of the soul or fill this lack which kills all truer feeling before it can begin … Continue reading →

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Hauntings

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Helen

Hauntings Are never easy The dead do not remain For simple reasons They carry earthly chains Throughout the seasons Hauntings Are never easy The haunted Are never sane The toll of such communion Is like a winter gale Their hopeless, … Continue reading →

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Perfect

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Helen

You were too perfect to be true The fairest flower Has lightest hue But to what gods You owed your due For being you You were too beauteous I see Such sweet perfection Isn’t free And what a waste You … Continue reading →

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Infamy

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Helen

These names that reek depravity Vlad Dracul and De Sade, Marquis Gilles De Rais of Jeanne D’Arc’s army The grasping Countess Bathory Blood soaked rites and cruelty Demand a soulless infamy Damnation for eternity Eternity In literature’s deep, darkest fame The … Continue reading →

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Jekyll

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Helen

I am the Jekyll to your Hyde I am the muse that stirs your pen I am the question deep inside You are the now, I am the then I am the kindness, you are the cruel I am the … Continue reading →

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Red Alert

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Helen

My heart has broken Shards of glass spill Red alert There is no hurting It is riven, dead Red alert Call the ambulance Arrives too late Red alert Write the epitaph Words unspoken Red alert (c) Helen Valentina 2013, All … Continue reading →

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Forget Her – For Prompt 14 – The Music of Jeff Buckley

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Helen

The debris of these many years alights your mind like a firecracker out of season; a chance sighting on the street of similar hair, a similar walk and memories flooded back A dam unstuck, overwhelming And you thought you could … Continue reading →

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