24 November, 2009 | General, Poetry | By: Helen Howell
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 faithfully
and unconsciously down the middle
like ogres armed and [...]
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28 May, 2009 | General, Poetry | By: Helen Howell
It talks to me, sings to me,
though it never utters a word,
It lifts me up, up, up,
though it doesn’t have any arms
and makes the unseen spin inside
always and ever to music
I never ever can hear.
Without any hands it touches
my, oh, so tender spot
and silently wipes away a tear
I thought to forever ignore
and there are [...]
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17 March, 2009 | Poetry | By: Helen Howell
You have my love and that is that;
I do not ask for yours
but I want your strength of mind
to not break down and cry
and your nerves of steel
that never shiver, shake,
with the advent of desire.
I want the water in your veins
to wash my passion out
and your heart’s well formed icicles
to encourage frozen depths
within the all [...]
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31 August, 2008 | Life, Poetry | By: Helen Howell
A poem contemplating the acquisition and balancing of love and money.
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14 August, 2008 | General, Poetry | By: Helen Howell
A poem contemplating the merits of a gentle approach as opposed to a loud and forceful one.
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25 July, 2008 | Love, Poetry | By: Helen Howell
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21 July, 2008 | Poetry, Spiritual | By: Helen Howell
A poem of assumption that the soul or subconscious mind is our decision maker in life.
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15 July, 2008 | Poetry, Spiritual | By: Helen Howell
Exploring the idea of life perhaps being a spiritual contract – of sorts!
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6 July, 2008 | Life, Poetry | By: Helen Howell
Poem inspired by ill-mannered behaviour
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30 June, 2008 | Humorous, Life, Poetry | By: Helen Howell
A lighthearted look at love.
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