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Mystic’s Last Love Song – for Prompt 42 Tired Surrender

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Helen

Upon these streets I have listlessly wandered Within lost thoughts I have sunken and floundered In brittle light bathed I’m en-webbed and confounded Ears harkening to the call A barefoot adept, arms outstretched on high In this moment more afraid to … Continue reading →

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Lost Highway

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Helen

A scratched message on a dirty mirror In this rest room of this station Spoke of coldness, spoke of mystery And some deeper, dark elation ‘Come and join me’ it has whispered ‘Come and see me, come and play’ But … Continue reading →

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Waiting – for Prompt 41 Consuming Impatience

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Helen

My skin cracks and splits Beneath this weight of hours Emotions parched This desert life has gripped me Yet still has ill-equipped me For its slow and steady Portentous demands There was that moment on the stair Your hushed voice … Continue reading →

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From Paris With Love

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Helen

The words spoke ‘with love’ But cut like a shard Meaningless words On a gilt-edged card From Paris with love So perhaps it is true It was love from a city And nothing from you Not words of a lover … Continue reading →

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Dragon Dream – for Prompt 40 Sheer Wonder

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Helen

  Adrift in city streets at night No cars in sight I’m calling to a distant light These stars indeed might fall for me They might A single child lost in despair With no-one there As susseration splits the air … Continue reading →

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Shopping Spree

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Helen

I’ve been on an internet shopping spree There’s something lost in the pit of me Buy one of these and get another free! I trade desolation for purchased glee Click, click, click where it says buy All else is useless, … Continue reading →

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Hope Dies for Prompt 39 Unwanted Truth

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Helen

My truth is the one where hope dies It shivers on the barricades It is verdant in the Everglades But when the jury must be swayed Just silence and a nothingness replies My truth is the one deep known The … Continue reading →

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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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Press ‘Start’

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Helen

I was reluctant to begin To press start entailed Commitment and belief It required An act of faith My doubting heart eschewed It needed Bravery I fear I lacked I was hesitant to call To press the buttons necessary A … 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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