Tag Archives: truth

Dread

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Helen

Why did I feel such dread To look upon your face And know you’d won the race? Why did my heart so fall And scream in silent pain To see you win again? What’s written on your palm And what … Continue reading →

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White Peacock

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Helen

A mystery A rarity A beauty here Beyond the sea So delicate And yet so strong So elegant A haunting song And who believes Such creatures breathe In brightened light In feathers wreathed? Found not in dark Nor cold daylight … Continue reading →

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Global Financial Crisis Limericks

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Helen

There once was a banker supreme Who exhorted to all ‘live the dream!’ He replaced all their need With more profitable greed And on their naivety schemed There once was a government hack Who envied the wealth that he lacked Should … Continue reading →

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For Ionia

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Helen

I wish for you a dragon’s fire To breathe freedom to you To raise you up on crystal wings Far away from darker lands It seems the purest souls Are tested most these days As though in exchange for generosity … Continue reading →

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The Dark Glade

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Helen

This dark glade Where lovers meet in secret To play charades How many vows are broken And dreams betrayed In this dark glade? Beneath dark bows Where leaves that fall are blackness And are death somehow How many strange transgressions … Continue reading →

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The Sea

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Helen

I let the waves wash over me And from the deep and timeless sea He’ll rise and sing his songs to me His sad, sad songs to me I tread the sand upon the shore I want for much, but … Continue reading →

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Infamy

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Helen

These names that reek depravity Vlad Dracul and De Sade, Marquis Gilles De Rais of Jeanne D’Arc’s army The grasping Countess Bathory Blood soaked rites and cruelty Demand a soulless infamy Damnation for eternity Eternity In literature’s deep, darkest fame The … Continue reading →

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Gossip

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Helen

Gossip runs like wildfire whispered from one to one explodes across the horizon till truth is lost beneath a web of lies and all objectivity gone The meme is alive now Its birth owed to gossip (c) Helen Valentina 2013, … Continue reading →

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Dream Big

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Helen

Dream big, dream big Never forget to dream Life’s no rehearsal No matter how it seems Aim not for half-truths Reach for the extremes Dream big, dream big Never forget to dream Live large, live large Make sure that you … Continue reading →

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People Like Us

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Helen

People like us should be quarantined from society People like them never realise what they have seen People like us play our dark little games like puppeteers People like them don’t understand they live in a dream People like us … Continue reading →

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