Tag Archives: Religion and Spirituality

Exorcist

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Helen

This perfect crisp winter morn Last autumn leaves falling Lost, forlorn This calling in my soul arises Breaking like a promised dawn A blessing given in the rain Should all the greatest losses Here contain And darker thought’s dominion Will … Continue reading →

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Soul

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Helen

Burning on this pyre of many years I weave my own lost mystery We have too many deeds undone and too little history to make any sense of you and me We look to skies above to find a god … Continue reading →

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A God’s Life

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Helen

Immemorial, immaterial Immortal This terrible existence Without end Competing energy electric Sing your symphonies In incorporeal space And of any earlier mercy Not a trace Revered in legend, longing Lamentations A god’s life spans Everything Personality of vibrancy Peculiar vernacular … Continue reading →

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Saving Grace

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Helen

In this moment came My saving grace When all the tumult of the world Might crash around me Perhaps deservedly A moment’s godlike leniency Reaches out to me And could I now believe This tender hand Which reached across this … Continue reading →

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Weep

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Helen

Do angels weep Before such loss Or watch with indifferent eyes Singing such dirges to the skies As praises to the God on high Upon whose face they gaze? Do angels feel The pain of man Or contemplate one step … Continue reading →

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Unholy Alliance

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Helen

If and when and maybe Here’s the schemes that can be Disturbing now the trinity Where one plus two is not three Three times three can be One See the demons have fun Here a daughter, here a son Sacred … Continue reading →

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Reckoning

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Helen

Is there a true reckoning beyond the veil, a life re-lived in timelessness and understood objectively as a thing apart? Can the soul look upon its own deeds, weighed against conscious and unconscious intent; see for once the dissonance between … Continue reading →

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Transcend

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Helen

Between us all perhaps Are threads of light Shimmering For those with eyes to see Ephemeral connection Pulsing with pure love Every moment As we breathe The mystics say that God is One And so it seems are we In … Continue reading →

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Discordance

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Helen

A solitary man Upon this road Listens so intently Above him a starlit canopy Sings songs of the spheres No discordance here A chill within Bids him pull His collar to his throat Before him aches the road The travail … Continue reading →

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Ritual

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Helen

I fled before the ritual Sliced deep within my heart Denied the rank habitual That tore each choice apart My thoughts so pathological In shadows found my twin Wore masks phantasmagorical Down the rabbit hole we spin Ecstatic in the … Continue reading →

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