Tag Archives: prompt

Nothing Matters – for Prompt 56 Indescribable Frustration

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Helen

This rock I push atop this hill I feel it settle well, until From life’s sweet canopy they spill This flotsam on my window sill Again I stress my task undone The cake unbaked, the weave un-spun Each furnish questions, … Continue reading →

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged aims, ambitions, dark, delusion, frustration, hope, Life, mythology, pointlessness, prompt, sisyphus | 16 Comments

Moment – for Prompt 55 Slowly Dawning Horror

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Helen

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 →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged darkness, death, delusion, evil, fear, horror, madness, memory, mind control, pain, prompt, ritual, ritual sacrifice, sacrifice, Spiritual | 18 Comments

Fractured – for Prompt 54 A vastly important secret

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Helen

Oh little ones I felt the fall The splintering among you all As heavens opened I espied The way you wailed, you fell and cried What once was One had to rebel And what this brings the brave don’t tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged dark, fall, God, lucifer, prompt, religion, secret, souls, Spiritual | 13 Comments

Falling At Your Feet – for Prompt 52 – Soul Scarring Regret

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Helen

You were to me the epitome Of loss of innocence You’d hand out blame and use my name For games at my expense I deep regret and won’t forget When I first saw your face So drenched in sin where … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged dark, death, delusion, innocence, loss, lost innocence, lost love, Love, pain, prompt, regret, soul scarring | 15 Comments

Curious Cat – for Prompt 51 – Complete Bafflement

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Helen

I found a cat upon a tree Who grinned and grinned quite viciously This cat could speak – so very strange! All preconceptions re-arranged He smiled and simply asked me ‘Who?’ As owls may speak, but seldom do He waited … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged bafflement, Cat, cat and mouse, Curiosity, elliptical, game, nonsense, nursery rhyme, prompt | 28 Comments

Live Through This – for Prompt 50 Grim Determination

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Helen

Live through this Life under your microscope Dull tones ringing silence A sigh of lost regret I try then to forget Each day I awoke to just sunlight Set to expose Live through this The madness of the drama queen’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged dark, death, fear, harrassment, prompt, stalking | 14 Comments

Delusion – for Prompt 48 Escalating Humiliation

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Helen

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 →

Posted in Poetry, Water | Tagged choice, cruelty, dark, delusion, denial, Dreams, humiliation, lost love, madness, pain, passion, prompt, public embarrassment, rejection, truth | 11 Comments

Vanquished – For Prompt 46 – Bitter Loathing

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Helen

They say true hatred’s born of love But here no finer feelings bled within such arid desert where no tears for water can be shed We stumbled on such paradox A deeper schism found instead When once I called you … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged belief, bitterness, choice, daemon, dark, death, delusion, denial, fate, hatred, loathing, lost love, passion, possession, prompt, Relationships, revenge, truth, vengeance | 14 Comments

Pray – for Prompt 45 Festering Jealousy

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Helen

Your words are taken While mine forsaken Your lilting voice Removes all choice Your gracious heart Tears mine apart Your spirit freed I crack and bleed For you the smile The warmth and style For me but earth A … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged Aspiration, belief, choice, dark, denial, Dreams, Jealousy, loss, madness, Musings, pray, prayer, prompt, Spiritual | 13 Comments

Love Song for The Demon – for Prompt 43 Supernatural Lust

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Helen

Sing me your songs of sheer electricity Set ablaze my synapses And scorch earth right through of me Tenderness lacking, the soul in full flight Can feel no emotion Just need in the night My eyes shatter light in an … Continue reading →