Tag Archives: truth

Miracles

Offering up your gold coin For a miracle to happen Societies bid you join Their parade so lost, misshapen But it’s all a dance Trickery of structured light Not some better circumstance No miracles here tonight Hear the fevered preacher … Continue reading

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Hymn to the Fall

Hovering above me this crystal night I felt the hand of spirits caress my cheek and then it seemed I heard them speak and call me traitor, call me weak As though upon their testimony worlds would rise and fall … Continue reading

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Lantern Poem – Knowing Too Late

I took you by the hand Hopeful, foolish lost Light dazzling Dance for me till we both spin down I trusted your dear heart not knowing you well You held me just one time then disappeared Gone I took you … Continue reading

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Vertigo

Imbalanced and precarious On a clifftop looking down The momentum just to fall Almost irresistible You feel the pull Of ancient deities Of promises and piety As they overwhelm and here remind you Of where this dissonance began Feeling sea-sick … Continue reading

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Jasmine Nights

Jasmine nights Down corridors we wander and whisper such dark delights Could be the brother or the sister of the Northern Lights So soft, so bright Lost melody In dusty pages of unopened books find a sign of me Is that … Continue reading

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Escape

I’ll run away tonight from you I’ll pack up bags so silently That nothing of my passing shall Even whisper on the breeze I’ll travel through the darkest hues Through quiet streets I’ll steal away And you will never raise … Continue reading

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Again

Are we seeing it again? Eyes averred to those in need Are we pampering the egos That grow fat on blood and greed? Are we seeing it again? Are we hearing it again? Rhetoric of wilful right Do we count … Continue reading

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Risen

Blackened eagle Wings through putrid sky Storms brewing Hunger and terror Blind sisters they weave Darker thread Demon regal Hooded piercing eye Wolf pursuing Spiritual error Forsaken hearts cleave To the dead (c) Helen Valentina 2014, All Rights Reserved

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Crafty

She was sly and she was crafty She was clever, she was cold There were only lies and traps in All the stories that she told She was daughter to deception She was misdirection’s queen She was never on the … Continue reading

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Delusion – for Prompt 48 Escalating Humiliation

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

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