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
Some days she forgets where the palette is kept and when she remembers the paints are missing and she wanders the halls lost and bereft like a stranger in love’s diocese. No one knows, you see, what to expect in that place where “life” cannot intrude and trespass beyond the boundaries imposed by personal and [...]
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When the line is unbroken between heart and eyes there’s no getting away from a simple cry but a cry’s not simple; it’s a spiked cocktail where inputted love fights conditioning. The fight rages for a second or more like sea as it pounds on immovable rocks until the waves rise, up, higher up, and [...]
Categories: Life, Life Poems, Love, Love Poems
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On the street where I live there’s no runaway deal and the price rises up, up, up, into the more not bargained for with the knowing of worth and value. Life takes the stuffing, the cherry on top, half the filling out of the giving, and bespeaks of learning to live with less than ever [...]
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There was music once and melodies, singers, dancers, props and spots, and changing scenes from good to bad until the curtain fell to ground. It lay inert disguised as death as heads in silence bowed respect. The players gone, the exit shone, and minds as one moved on again. The play of life in coffins [...]
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Free and weightless floating there lost thoughts in me like breathing air dispatch desire and need to sky and draw me up like smoke from fire. Crushing blows and then dismay turn nights to days in life’s foray but love, illusive love, lays down its heart and soul into the ground. It should fight and [...]
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I do not want to be a woman who believes there’s a reason for the tears that fall continually. I do not want to be a woman so in need that life a chore untenable and love a means to grieve. I do not want to be a woman with a memory that overtakes my [...]
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I love the feel of summer rain in fall upon my brow each drop a lover’s sweet caress, each drip a timeless vow. I love the feel of rising sun that fuels my memory and the night that holds just so my wishes and my dreams. I love the feel of autumn wind around my [...]
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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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