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
Sometimes there comes a day when one thinks to turn the table and dine on the other side of life as it seems to be. And then there are other days when all of this life holds sway and the dished up fare though grandiose holds no appeal for the hungry. It’s an evil plot [...]
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If I could I would hop on a plane and fly above the land of the now betwixt and between all knowing and sheer ignorance The pendulum swings, scales are unbalanced, and nobody leans the same way on hallowed ground that’s typecast as a place meant for defilement. There’s an army of ants that march [...]
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A complicated and indistinct map is placed in the hands of the now inept but they don’t think to use other means to find out which way to go. Those other means aren’t real, you see to those with no eyes to see, with no heart to feel, and no faith to believe. I’m such [...]
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The tune of love played hauntingly for many a day undisturbed until the seriousness of a rebuff made of the ears non-working organs. But everyone knows the ears aren’t soul and soul still listens and sings along like an uncontrollable wilful child while the parent wails and bemoans its complete and utter inability to produce [...]
Categories: Love, Spiritual Poetry
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Summer’s glory a thing of the past not destined to ere come again while clouds of grey, rain and hail, stand full on life’s centre stage. I shiver sometimes for it shouldn’t be that summer bows out to winter and brings back again the intolerable like karma not yet resolved. It’s an evil trick that [...]
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Two upon the highest bough remained in enjoyment of each other and the air until one had a thought to leave and forage more in the dirt of mother earth. So off it flew and left the one to wait and hope and pray until it too had a thought to go the other way. [...]
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Love comes at its own time and takes us from the mundane into the extraordinary but to see it, feel it, know it, not for the feint hearted. The heart needs strength and fortitude and the will to survive through loss and grief and circumstance that twists its path into a maze with seemingly no [...]
Categories: Inspirational Poetry, Love
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Stairs start and lengthen more from the dungeon of despair to make of every step a laboured affair. No man or beast, angelic friend, or sweetheart of the heart’s desire can lift the burden, ease the pain, or change a state of mind. But there always was and still is the self that knows no [...]
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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
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