Tag Archives: ritual

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

Clapping

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Helen

Clapping, clapping here in time Faster rhythm, faster rhyme Face bathed in full brilliant light Music playing, sheer delight Resplendent here the moon and stars Conquer night and sun debar Dancing in a circle formed From this womb a world … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged alchemy, Arts, Aspiration, belief, Clapping, Dance, fire, Folk, Performing Arts, ritual, Spiritual | 8 Comments

Withering

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Helen

You endured her withering gaze You had to Her door was a ritual passageway A way through Her inspection is cold and precise She means to Makes us creatures of her own device Agreed to Like the crone she’s meticulously … Continue reading →

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged Aspiration, belief, choice, crone, cruelty, dark, denial, Dreams, Musings, rite of passage, ritual, Spiritual, truth, wisdom | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in Earth, Poetry | Tagged Aspiration, choice, Dance, dark, death, dissociation, Dreams, fear, Pagan, pain, passion, Philosophy, Religion Spirituality, ritual, Spiritual, truth | 7 Comments

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 →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged alchemy, Aspiration, cruelty, dark, denial, dissociation, Esoteric and Occult, madness, Mask, memory, Pagan, pain, passion, Religion and Spirituality, ritual, Spiritual, truth | 8 Comments

Love Rites

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Helen

Rose quartz illuminated Procession of women Of porcelain hue Glowing with knowledge And unity The moment before Sweet surrender To the tones and pitch Of love Dark onyx undulates Rings on broad fingers Passing dark hooded eyes Celebration of men … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged Aspiration, Love, passion, Relationships, ritual, rose quartz, Spiritual | 16 Comments

Symbolic

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Helen

Symbolic power Corroding the soul Inching its dreadful way in Debauching a butterfly Excoriating rainbows Washing childhood dreams In ritual and sin Power corrupting Mystery schooling Making the hidden Just occult debris Where now to aspire For liberation’s knowledge Where … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged dark, Esoteric and Occult, mind control, Musings, Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality, ritual, Spiritual, symbolism | 9 Comments

Beauty Ritual

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Helen

Sitting in the hairdresser’s chair mid process, my hair spiked by colouring agents Purple swathes against beige I look like I’ve been adorned for a tribal ritual Frankly it’s vaguely frightening And how the lights play on my visage making … Continue reading →