Tag Archives: Spiritual

Winter Rose – for Prompt 38 Tender Love

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Helen

These hands I will now clasp to yours My cheek soft upon your cheek I’ll stare the very tempest down And gather all you seek So in this precious moment Your sadness is complete I’ll take from you each drop … Continue reading →

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Synchronicity and the Strangeness of Creativity

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Helen

Hi So I’ve finished the first draft of my ghost story novel. But I don’t want to talk about that so much as something odd that has happened in the last few of days of writing it. To put this … 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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Nothingness

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Helen

Footsteps in an empty room Afternoon shadowplay Well before noon Ghostly images Flickering on the stair Feeling of presence When nothing is there Lights shining dimly When switches are off Lost faces like images On virgin cloth Banging of doorways … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Revolution

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Helen

No more revolutionary thought than love No greater or more simple call to arms Against the tide of persistent individuality And natural, bodily greed Survival instincts programmed For the selfish gene And yet this emotion gestates, arises The phoenix unexpected … Continue reading →

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Choice – For Prompt 36 – Virtue

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Helen

May my choice be now as ever Of all virtues here arrayed To find balance in true temperance And for this alone I’ll pray Let me never be so charitable That I steal your chance to grow Yet I’ll not … Continue reading →

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All I Want For Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Helen

All I want A moment of belief All I plead Freedom from this grief No gift given Can ever compare To such grace Following there All I want Is simply what I need All these bonds Of doubting here I’m … Continue reading →

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Hearts Racing

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Helen

They felt their hearts racing At the moment of descent All their fears there embracing All their hopes and innocence Feel them whirl as they fall See them frightened by the light We cannot help them, not at all They … Continue reading →

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Triple Threat

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Helen

One part murder One part love One part mind Triple threat Like a Cerberus Just behind I’m Persephone Rising up From the dark Triple threat It’s just summer Just a spark © Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved

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