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Send In the Clowns – Friday Music Prompt #50

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Helen

  Everything reversed Injustice is fair Poverty street for old billionaires Send in the clowns Doing the crime Power does no time Beauty queen covered in rivers of slime Send in the clowns Each one of them clowns Just when … Continue reading →

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Writing Challenge – Conspiracy

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Helen

There is nothing here for you The broken memories have corroded Like a fire they’ve burned through And all you might have tested Is now just a part of you And I have tried To make sense of this game … Continue reading →

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Peel – for Prompt 80, Unforgiven

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Helen

I peel you off Snake shedding its skin A little blood and pain A pure recompense And you are gone The remnants shrivel Curl and crackle Like dying embers In firelight at night And you are gone Fresh skin will … Continue reading →

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The Wildness and the Blade, for Prompt 78 Persephone

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Helen

These childhood games we played The wildness and the blade We’d never shed one tear Our blood ran thick as fear This bride to death in black Calls to retreating backs Cross tempest wretched sky Her ululating cry Each bone is broken, … Continue reading →

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Moon Before the Sun for Prompt 77 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Helen

  “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde I am drunk on you tonight Our reverie has strewn Faux crystals at our feet They glitter and they sparkle Up and … Continue reading →

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Slave to Love for Prompt 75, Influence of the Dark Side

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Helen

I feast on your desires like scraps from a wretched beggar’s table. In this I am a myriad of choices to acquiesce and follow and become the thing I once most despised; this insipid, crawling death of sensibility and morality, … Continue reading →

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Reaching for Photo Challenge 28 Climbing the Walls

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Helen

I can hear you Dear departed summer boy You’re trickling up and down these walls With every jagged breath My wretched heart calls And I’m floating Not afraid that I may fall I can touch you Ephemeral as summer rain … Continue reading →

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Too Sweet for Prompt 74 The Hollow Men by TS Elliot

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Helen

I have stepped across this threshold Mr Devil I can see you In that shrunken blackened doorway See your bony hand there beckoning Like a tide returning to the beach I hear your slyly sibilant, silent speech Making promises, and … Continue reading →

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Finding Liveable Accommodation For the Afterlife – for Prompt 73, 6 word stories

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Helen

This week mindlovemisery’s prompt defies a poetic response, but is still intriguing: http://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/prompt-73-6-words/ So, in the spirit of the challenge, I’d still like to do something slightly different (which is possibly breaking the rules a bit but bear with me) … Continue reading →

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Floating Far Downstream for Tale-Weaver’s Prompt 26

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

Isolation’s prison here defines My limitations, all I see Silence punctuated by Discordant, harsh cacophony And sharp, blood soaked imagery Deep within the soul of me And feeding on my energy There’s nothing else, no more for me No more … Continue reading →

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