Neutral shades

Posted by Helen Howell on August 21, 2009

‘tis neutral shades that rule the day like women who are known to be without, within, and round about the dictates of a mortal life. The colour swatch of passion, grief, awaits a willingness to be pushed and pulled and swung around the totem pole of happenings. There is no wish to ride the wave [...]

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Unholy matrimony

Posted by Helen Howell on May 26, 2009

A tapestry of love’s desire stitched and weaved with memories unravels in two hearts apart and lays bare the needs of soul. But threads of past intensity unrelenting stay attached like spirit hands in devil lands won’t leave well enough alone. In this unholy matrimony a mind entwined can’t disengage from the snap and crackle, [...]

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From the core

Posted by Helen Howell on March 25, 2009

When a bough breaks it’s no silent affair but a heart wrenching cry from the core of a tree for a part of itself has withered and died on the ground where the world passes it by. The tree is half bare but nobody cares that once it held flowers and leaves and stood as [...]

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The crown of truth

Posted by Helen Howell on February 8, 2009

As the world turns round and round so spins the one who loves slow motion it would seem from the then into the now. That spin is like a crown of truth that adorns my thoughts and moves and glitters its beliefs from the mental realms of memory to the present physical. I step out [...]

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