Tag Archives: yearning

Your Gaze

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Helen

Your gaze was far too old And we were but teenagers then Still unformed and awkward But the intensity drilled within Spoke of hope and dreams and sin And it lingers with me still In these later, later years Something … Continue reading →

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Serene

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Helen

The serene quietude of night As lazy colours paint A fast retreating sky Above the stars alight One by perfect one To shine upon my way You’re there amongst the falling light Some stars have died and yet we see … Continue reading →

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Reaching for Photo Challenge 28 Climbing the Walls

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Helen

I can hear you Dear departed summer boy You’re trickling up and down these walls With every jagged breath My wretched heart calls And I’m floating Not afraid that I may fall I can touch you Ephemeral as summer rain … Continue reading →

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Broken

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Helen

I am a little broken here inside I’m not sure when it happened Or what the shattering implied I am part pure ambition And foolish, yearning pride But I’m also lost and broken So divided here inside I am a … Continue reading →

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Becomes Me – for Prompt 61 – Toska

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Helen

Twilight becomes me The purple-black shade of in-between Stars struggle to ignite In an opaque sky Moments before the light Falls as broken wings Years of waiting have become Mere sacred ritual The white, the red, the black I light … Continue reading →

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Light and Shade

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Helen

What we would have given in those days for some variety, some light and shade For our hides were riven, with tears and pain to provide some semblance of existence So high drama, while in reality our lives were perfect … Continue reading →

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Craving

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Helen

I have travelled so far to see you I have journeyed on light and on words Slipped through parallel space just to find you Flown for miles, sister here to the birds I have struggled to gain all the answers … Continue reading →

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