Helen Howell resides in Bedfordview, South Africa. Her journey into the world of writing began in the year 2000 and the insights, thoughts, and feelings presented to you here are those of an ordinary woman who feels that she has been privileged to touch on the outline of life’s true meaning.
That touch is displayed here for readers to determine according to individual and personal perceptions.
If you would like to contact Helen you can email her at helen@dreamtimepoetry.com
Mist swirls as if propelled to be a lifelong living entity but creation writes the story and makes of mist a seasonal and passing happenstance. In comes in low and stealthily with the mind of a criminal intent on stealing love and ransacking true insight and then it disappears as fate decrees it must to [...]
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The grass is green and “squishy” soft under one and two and many more footsteps placed just so and, oh, just so to satisfy the need of easy passage to where’re the journey ends. Little is known of the “far ahead” perceived as just a dream but when the grass turns brown and the ground [...]
Categories: Inspirational, Inspirational Poetry
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Love is unable and cannot, will not, bind man to land for eternity but rather allows a soul to evolve beyond the confines of human existence. Immortality is the promise of love, pretenders will not be granted entry, but how do we qualify, what must we do, to receive and enjoy such a wonderful gift? [...]
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The weather has changed; the sky is dull and grey and unseasonal rain falls softly, tenderly, on that wandering soul of the will to live. Yet still the scene is beautiful in a morbid sort of way and the will intrigued sets out to experience the fullness of a life away from home. And then [...]
Categories: Life, Life Poems
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So the will to live split mind and soul and sent the former home again to act as temporary stand-in for the real thing. The soul released travelled on through human conflict, tears, and woe seeking in that density true and abiding meaning. The days were hard and taxing for the soul knows love’s awaiting [...]
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The brain shuts down when pain decides to squeeze like a steel vice and draw each drop of happiness from one imprisoned so. And with each drop the will to live is lost and wanders far until in sleep the mind shouts out “Come, please come home” but the will now free uncertain stands immobile [...]
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Nothing yet but not to say the mail man’s gone away but rather that the sender went one day on a bender and forgot to put in motion the package of intention. But the package of intention large, heavy, in retention sinks quickly to the bottom of the cumbersome and lies like a thing ignored [...]
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Helen's enlightened journey is now available in her five published poetry books:
Beneath The Ordinary
Simply Love
In Africa, South Africa
Moments
Dream Woman
Dreamtime Poetry was voted one of the top 40 poetry blogs by 'Guide to Art Schools'
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