Tag Archives: passion

Pictures of You

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Helen

These pictures of you Are tattered by time I hide from their view Then surrender sublime I’ll say I forsake them I’ll say I forget But these pictures of you Are haunting me yet I’ve lived through three lifetimes Or … Continue reading →

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Carnivale

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Helen

Carnivale Of carnivores On with the show Blood rich life So adored In depths below Coloured lights Creatures strange Paraded for art Souls are lost To our cost Stabbed through the heart Carnivale Of troubadours Singing of sin If you … Continue reading →

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Alice

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Helen

Alice has fallen Through the glass again This life-like absurdity Raised to literary art Perversity in poetry She’s dancing with the mad again There’s secrets here Hid deep within The whirl of disordered thought Alice isn’t quite a child Not … Continue reading →

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Dance With The Dead

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Helen

Friends break bread And dance with the dead Ghosts are prized Truth in their eyes Pantomime Lost within time Friends drink wine Demonic, divine See them dance Life’s final chance Night of pure death Mist on the breath Donning their … Continue reading →

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Samson

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Helen

Samson, eye your lesser morning With true strength just leeched away Where your locks of such adorning Where precision for your prey? Oh such mighty power is falling And your God’s abandoned you Where the surety of your calling Where … Continue reading →

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Ancient Longing

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Helen

These ancient walls are vast, heraldic creatures watch o’er me and yet alone within one room I brood solitary, dreaming of an age lost to me These steps are steeped in blood and time The mischief of an age gone … Continue reading →

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Companion

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Helen

My companion of these many years Has settled In the lining Of my hopes and dreams and fears Laugh lines marking All the memories That we share and hold so dear Like a soft enfolding blanket Slightly tattered But still … Continue reading →

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He Said, She Said

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Helen

He said A pure moment Must be captured And kept still Like a flower pressed Against a page She said No moment’s pure All is change Cannot remain And will be free And all the rest’s Captivity He said To … Continue reading →

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Withdraw

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Helen

I withdraw from you I’m moving further for a safer view I decline your voice I used to kid myself I had a choice Ah then, but we both know You played me like a violin on show I disavow … Continue reading →

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First Crush

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Helen

When I was sixteen I saw a face I will never forget Upon his skin Not yet a trace Of time’s sweet savagery yet I yearned for him But spoke no words All these secrets that I kept At sixteen … Continue reading →

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