Tag Archives: memories

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 →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged afternoons, hope, Love, memories, regret, unrequited love | 3 Comments

Summer Sea Memory

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Helen

Flickering like old movies On wartime movie screens Summer sea memory Greets me In a waking dream Part beautiful and part dread It’s nothing like it seems Summer sea memory Haunts me In a waking dream Pinned like butterflies shivering … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged Beauty, dread, Dreams, fear, memories, Movies, sea, summer, trapped, waking dream | 3 Comments

Toast

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Helen

We shall drink to the days gone by Toast the memories washing over us Those we embrace And those we deny We shall drink to the days gone by We shall sing till our hearts can live Toast to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged deny, forgive, ghosts, memories, regrets, toast | Leave a comment

China

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Helen

Our china has broken Like all our days Little pieces on the floor Just as the confetti spilled At celebrations long ago Too long ago Our china has split apart A testament to cracks Within the foundation Of a love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged broken heart, china, lost love, Love, memories, poetry, regret, sadness | 4 Comments

Alone

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Helen

I have been alone so long Visiting those parks where as children we so freely played As evening comes the moon is no comfort and none of these creeping fears may be allayed I’ve even fallen at the chairs where … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged alone, ambition, captured, childhood, death, haste, lack of time, loneliness, memories, regret | Leave a comment

City

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Helen

The rush of silver The city at night I remember you laughing, calling my name We were dancing in the early hours like children So young And I thought this would last forever or at least till the morning and … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged city, excitement, forever, loss, Love, lust, memories, moments, night, youth | Leave a comment

Desolate Ones

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Helen

We are the desolate ones Left behind as debris We cling to walls Where all is peeling, peeling away We haunt such hallways As strangers never seek to walk In empty rooms we are ghosts Left only now To haunt … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged dark, desolate, ghosts, haunted, haunted house, haunting, homes, loss, memories, rooms, sins | Leave a comment

Deep Silence

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Helen

This deep silence of morning Starless sky before dawn breaks Blanketed in dark and calm An island to myself I seek a comfort long forgotten In the weave of black and grey Dreams adrift and quickly floating Lover’s kiss a … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged dawn, Dreams, hope, memories, morning, peace, promise, silence, waking | 6 Comments

Broken

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

I am a little broken here inside I’m not sure when it happened Or what the shattering implied I am part pure ambition And foolish, yearning pride But I’m also lost and broken So divided here inside I am a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged broken, broken hearted, childhood, lost, lost love, memories, mystic, shattered, yearning | 2 Comments

10 Poems in 20 Minutes

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Helen

1 Still free-floating from that star sprinkled night This morning in a café I saw the face of God on a colourful postcard He was winking 2 Counting the coins before you throw them into this gilded wishing well A … Continue reading →