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
So from a high and lofty perch love tumbled to the ground and broke its legs and wings and “things” that made it free to be. Dirt got in its eyes and it lay as one half dead thinking it would mend and reclaim its rightful place. It gagged on mud and slush in the [...]
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When mystique and magic creeps through the door the walls of the mind shiver and shake for fearful they are that foundations will crack and mind will be free to expand into more. Oh, but they’re built to withstand the advance of what surely is meant for the fairies, not me but how strange the [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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A poem contemplating the acquisition and balancing of love and money.
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A poem contemplating the merits of a gentle approach as opposed to a loud and forceful one.
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A poem of assumption that the soul or subconscious mind is our decision maker in life.
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Exploring the idea of life perhaps being a spiritual contract – of sorts!
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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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