tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35498737999741291232024-03-07T22:02:04.891-08:00Dream Time PoetryA collection of healing poetry designed to mark the author's own insightful journey through the complexities of life.Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.comBlogger589125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-61384609314971520302024-01-08T04:10:00.000-08:002024-01-08T04:13:47.005-08:00Up and Out<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">And as her mind fills
up, up, up,<br />with evil not ere known
before<br />she knows to do a
nightly scrub<br />and flush the knowledge
out, out, out. </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">But of the flush is it
enough<br />to ensure no remnant there
remains<br /><span style="text-align: left;">to taint the essence of
her being<br /></span>and make her be as she
is not? </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Although she ponders
she well knows<br />she is today as she was
then<br />and tomorrow she will
be again<br />how she’s always been. </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">There is no changing
the true self<br />but sometimes pretence reigns
supreme<br />and little signs along
the way<br />are discarded from
mind’s reservoir. </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">But the day will come
when evil says,<br />“To hell with this, I’m
going out”<br />and she will see and
then believe<br />all those discarded
signs.<br /> </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Too late, too late, she
should have known<br />but the scrub and flush
left her unarmed<br />to face the full import<br />of evil’s many wiles. </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">So keep the signs
within the mind<br />to be prepared and
ready for<br />the time when people
change<br />from what you thought
was good and true!</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-83763589392527470852023-01-07T22:46:00.003-08:002023-01-07T22:48:31.299-08:00WORDS<p></p><div style="text-align: center;">The words that once were
free at ease</div><div style="text-align: center;">recline beneath a
willow tree</div><div style="text-align: center;">wishing so to climb,
climb, climb,</div><div style="text-align: center;">to escape the evil on
the ground. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">That evil is a devil
thing that stabs</div><div style="text-align: center;">and stabs, stabs, stabs
again,</div><div style="text-align: center;">till nought but “mush”
remains to speak</div><div style="text-align: center;">of love and peace and
harmony. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">And that “mush” sends
up an ardent plea</div><div style="text-align: center;">to grow, grow, grow and
grow some more,</div><div style="text-align: center;">to knock at last on
heaven’s door</div><div style="text-align: center;">and ask, and ask, why,
why, why, why. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">For now mere silence
filters down</div><div style="text-align: center;">and words listen,
listen more,</div><div style="text-align: center;">but nothing penetrates
the shell</div><div style="text-align: center;">that survival put in
place. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">But they know, of
course, they know</div><div style="text-align: center;">because heaven speaks out
loud</div><div style="text-align: center;">when the channel free
of dirt and grime</div><div style="text-align: center;">picked up from that
filthy ground. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">But how to make the
channel free</div><div style="text-align: center;">for more than minutes
in a day</div><div style="text-align: center;">and words ponder,
ponder, ponder more,</div><div style="text-align: center;">until claimed by exhaustive
sleep. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">You’ll see them there
beneath the tree</div><div style="text-align: center;">but don’t disturb their
reverie</div><div style="text-align: center;">because they will have
to start again</div><div style="text-align: center;">from beginning till the
end. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">How long it’s been, how
long will be,</div><div style="text-align: center;">but I can’t tell you
till I know</div><div style="text-align: center;">they’ve up and walked
away</div><div style="text-align: center;">to regain their
rightful place. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">And their rightful
place a page of course</div><div style="text-align: center;">or three or four or
more and more and more!</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-1083851056994012612022-10-18T02:47:00.001-07:002022-10-18T02:47:26.805-07:00The sea today<p> </p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Wind whips at the sea and she crests in anger<br />
at the will of the life force that puts her on edge<br />
for placed of nature she'd much rather flow<br />
straight to the shore like a woman adored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No friend the wind to pierce through her heart<br />
and bleed her frustrated womanhood feel<br />
into the rough of an unsettled life<br />
like a figment created for picturesque worth<br />
and not for the using, the feeling, tasting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sea sprays her ire right up to the sky<br />
but it crashes back down into her mass<br />
swallowed and swallowed so she can begin<br />
making slow rolls towards calm repose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Night hastens to come and relieve the sun<br />
for the sentry of day no help in the fray<br />
and the sea bids the night be her lover<br />
to still the frenzy within.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Night settles at last on the sea’s many fears<br />
the promise of peace still yet to be<br />
and the sea believes like the seer in me<br />
that everything comes to he who believes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Meanwhile the rain and just so you know<br />
tomorrow the wind will blow yet again!<o:p></o:p></span></p>Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-66695622713465932662022-04-14T06:32:00.002-07:002022-04-14T06:32:34.920-07:00Missing<p> </p><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">And as that gypsy emerged<br />from her bubble of silence<br />she wondered what happened that day<br />when life stole her earthly voice.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Was it the rain that washed it out,<br />the wind that blew it away,<br />or simply the evil of humankind<br />that burnt to ash each/every word?<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>It matters not; what’s gone is gone<br />but that gypsy knows to search the terrain<br />because the entrenched that’s missing today<br />not yet dead and buried.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>If found could she then still verbalize<br />the intent of goodness, mercy, kindness,<br />and speak to the deaf of forever love<br />and belief in the everlasting?<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Meanwhile the days relentless march on<br />while she struggles to remain undeterred<br />from the battle to retain her core beliefs<br />in a world so intent on evil.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>She searches today, she struggles today,<br />but evil, that dastardly thing called “evil”,<br />attaches itself to her every day<br />and relentlessly marches on and on and on!</div><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-51094450045148488302021-03-27T07:07:00.003-07:002021-03-27T12:36:19.529-07:00The run and jump<p> </p><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She’s a baby at this thing called
life<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">because she cannot understand<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the lies, the greed, the arrogance<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and that dreaded manipulation<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that trips her up time and time
again.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But babies grow and learn<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and know to take little, little,
steps,<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">before the run and jump<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that takes them away and over.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I reckon she’s in mid jump<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">uncertain how or where she’ll
land<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">but at least she is in motion<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">from years of immobility.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If I had a hat I would take it off<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">but I can bow from the waist down<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and pay homage to the strength<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">that came out from the blue.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes, she was strong and is strong<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">now way up in the air<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">but will a cushion or a rock<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">be awaiting her “come-down”?<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But such is life that no one
knows<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">what a run and jump will lead to<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">but to stay as one immobile<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a fate worse than death.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Please let’s pray that she will
hand<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">upright on her feet<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and live to tell of the heartache and grief<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that will surely follow her all of her days!</span></div>
Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-47231913069994081742021-01-23T22:55:00.000-08:002021-01-23T22:55:06.779-08:00Sifting<p> </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">These days more than
then</div><div style="text-align: center;">it’s time to sift
through the dirt</div><div style="text-align: center;">and find a little
miracle</div><div style="text-align: center;">waiting to be noticed</div><div style="text-align: center;">and rescued from the
pain</div><div style="text-align: center;">of being trodden on. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">It takes a time, it
really does,</div><div style="text-align: center;">for sifting’s no easy
task</div><div style="text-align: center;">when distracted is the
mind</div><div style="text-align: center;">by life’s activities. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">But to sift, look, and
be aware</div><div style="text-align: center;">of something waiting in
the dirt</div><div style="text-align: center;">to be lifted up and
cherished</div><div style="text-align: center;">always gives a good
return</div><div style="text-align: center;">on the effort expended. </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">How sad these days to walk
on dirt</div><div style="text-align: center;">and ignore what’s underfoot</div><div style="text-align: center;">until each and every miracle</div><div style="text-align: center;">breaks up and disappears.</div><p></p>Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-88897695611817504472021-01-10T02:34:00.003-08:002021-01-10T02:34:47.079-08:00The voice of free speech (adapted from the original)<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">The voice of free speech soft and dulcet in
its tone</div><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">or harsh, abrasive, cutting, and reaching
to the core,</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">moves freely like the wind, touching,
circulating,</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">and speaking only and always to those who
wish to hear.</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">Ideology, philosophy, wishful thinking,
memories,</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">unsubstantiated dreams, hopes, wishes,
needs, desires,</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">woven like a tapestry too soon to be
out-dated</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">and discarded like a heap of old and musty
books.</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">In a fire of these times volumes and
manuscripts</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">will burn and be forgotten like bodies of
the dead</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">and cynics will grow to outnumber those who
know</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">till all and everything disappears into the
air.</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">How pointless, how degrading, how useless
is intent</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">to expose to the already wise the wisdom of
the old</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">or shine like a star in the path of a blind
man</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">in the knowledge that he has no eyes to
see.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Too numerous the setbacks and too far away
the moon</div><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">to highlight a soul within the shell of
flesh</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">and everyone’s free speech will evolve into
dust</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">to be trodden on and crushed by life’s
intolerance.</div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></span><span lang="EN-GB"><div style="text-align: center;">The air once thin, sustaining, grows thick
and thicker now</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">with the absorption of … simply all and
everything</span></div></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-32784297714949821872020-12-19T04:18:00.002-08:002020-12-19T04:20:14.481-08:00Season<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">It’s just a season good
or bad</div><div style="text-align: center;">that comes and then it
goes</div><div style="text-align: center;">and caught in the cycle
we obey</div><div style="text-align: center;">whatever rules are laid
out.</div></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">But then mid-way or at
the beginning</div><div style="text-align: center;">a mighty struggle
ensues</div><div style="text-align: center;">and who once a leader
becomes a loser</div><div style="text-align: center;">and the old gives way
to the new.</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">We can blame the season
or leader now loser</div><div style="text-align: center;">who once in the task of
growing up</div><div style="text-align: center;">caused an event that
sapped his strength</div><div style="text-align: center;">at a time when most it
was needed.</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">He doesn’t bend his
head in shame,</div><div style="text-align: center;">he doesn’t wring his
hands in grief,</div><div style="text-align: center;">and certainly no tears
can fall</div><div style="text-align: center;">when evil is his saving
grace.</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">Yes, evil applauds
dastardly acts</div><div style="text-align: center;">and the one who caused
his downfall</div><div style="text-align: center;">because evil’s not
fussy as long as it lives</div><div style="text-align: center;">and as long as the
people suffer.</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">But evil forgets it is
just a season</div><div style="text-align: center;">and soon the season
will change</div><div style="text-align: center;">and over the land one
word will rebound</div><div style="text-align: center;">and that word is, of
course, …</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b>“Freedom, freedom!”</b><o:p></o:p></p>Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-28954065133663295422020-12-10T02:58:00.000-08:002020-12-10T02:58:18.343-08:00Once ...<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Once on a Sunday that
lady believed</div><div style="text-align: center;">magic would manifest
all of her dreams</div><div style="text-align: center;">and the sun shone on
that day in between</div><div style="text-align: center;">the beginning and end
of that Sunday that was.</div><o:p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></o:p><div style="text-align: center;">She remembers well the
heat of the day</div><div style="text-align: center;">and how blue the sky
that captured her gaze</div><div style="text-align: center;">and as the leaves
danced on each/every tree</div><div style="text-align: center;">she wondered what tune
played only for them.</div><o:p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></o:p><div style="text-align: center;">She listened because
she too wished to dance</div><div style="text-align: center;">to celebrate fully her
day of belief</div><div style="text-align: center;">but instead she sat
still and breathed in the air</div><div style="text-align: center;">that surely held tunes
she couldn’t yet hear.</div><o:p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></o:p><div style="text-align: center;">And then the night fell;
it kept falling, you know,</div><div style="text-align: center;">and blanketed out the
sun, sky and trees.</div><div style="text-align: center;">to make her believe her
day of belief</div><div style="text-align: center;">was plain and simply a
dream.</div><o:p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></o:p><div style="text-align: center;">But what held the
dreams she certainly had</div><div style="text-align: center;">except that glorious
day of belief</div><div style="text-align: center;">that weakened its grip
and let them fly free</div><div style="text-align: center;">to perhaps manifest in
some other time.</div><o:p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></o:p><div style="text-align: center;">She waits and she waits
and listens each day</div><div style="text-align: center;">for the music she
couldn’t then hear</div><div style="text-align: center;">but she knows she will
one Sunday in time</div><div style="text-align: center;">because days of belief don’t
disappear.</div></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-44723664323843003922020-11-29T04:32:00.000-08:002020-11-29T04:32:03.941-08:00Fanning<p> </p><div style="margin-left: 72.0pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I’m fanning the air around wishes, needs,<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">to circulate what I put out<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">but how stupid is that when mind’s intact<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">and works with no electricity.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It’s not solar powered but yet needs fuel<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">brought up from the depths of desire<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">but you must understand life pollutes all<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">and makes wishes/needs ineffectual.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It’s not like life’s evil or bad<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">but simply slow to desist<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">from dropping my every wish<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">into the dirt of its own agenda.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But one day, one day, life will believe<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">everything dropped must be picked up<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">so if I don’t fuel the fires of desire<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">my wishes and needs are disempowered.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And who would have thought a woman like me<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">would end up a stoker of fires<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">but it’s okay, you see, because I believe<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">one day that one day will come.</span></div>
Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-41507653363906814872020-06-27T02:17:00.000-07:002020-06-27T02:17:38.605-07:00Never thought …<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
And I never thought I’d
know</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
of corruption, deceit
and thievery<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and yet here I am
surrounded and embroiled<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
in the worst of them
thrust on humankind.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
It’s like the mindful tower
I built<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
of all I thought was good
and true<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
has fallen prey to
despicable control<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
that toppled it to
ground.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
Of course I search
amongst the rubble<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
for traces of the right
and honourable<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
but all I find are dust
particles<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
that ne’er again can be
a whole.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
It’s raining today and
where sand now mud<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
that one day will bake
in the sun of renewal<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
but those days are so
very far off<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
that perhaps never in
my lifetime.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
But I’ll make my own
tower again, again,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
because all that I am
and all I believe<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
can’t be destroyed by
the hand of evil<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
so prevalent in these
current times.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
And so as I wait for
the sun to come out<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
all I can do is design
and refine <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
my blueprints of soul
that allow me to know<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
but that block the infusion
of iniquity! <o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-59890549118034139332020-05-03T03:09:00.000-07:002020-05-03T03:09:54.798-07:00Before ...<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
Before the night claims
my day<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
I think of words to say<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
that perhaps will aid
and abet<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
the furtherance of
love. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
But then in the morning
light<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
I come to the
understanding<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
I need to grow and
increase<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
my force and effect.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
How tall, how big, how
loud and dictatorial<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and then I shrink with
the knowing<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
the my hands are tied
to the post<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
of plain and simply who
I am.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
I cannot shout from mountain
tops<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
or dance the light
fantastic<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
to the tune of all I
know should be<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
or simply tell you
quietly.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
I am here and you are
there<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
but before the day lays
claim to night<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
I like to think that in
that peaceful state<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
everyone is dancing to
the tune of love.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
I like to think but can
it really be<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
when some don’t think
to dance?<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-2224210940932533252020-03-24T13:58:00.000-07:002020-03-24T13:58:16.205-07:00Magic<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
The air is fresh and
clean<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and that gypsy over
yonder hill<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
stares up above in
wonderment<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
because she knows that
way up there<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
magic has been made and
despatched.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
She cannot see it, no,
she can’t<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and yet it’s real and
tangible <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
deep in her heart
that’s been dismayed<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and sunken in despair.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
For everything there is
a time<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and this her time to
receive<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and she will breathe
the fresh clean air<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
in gratitude and
thankfulness.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
And that time to lose
too far away<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
to spoil her happiness<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and she dances as all
gypsies do<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
deep in the essence of
herself.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
No argument, no, not
one<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
that she is free to be<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
unencumbered by the
grief<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
and agony, heartache.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
Remember, remember, <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
everything must pass<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
but always there is
magic<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
that will make it come
again.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
Remember, remember,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
help her to remember!<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-6591281311619846582019-10-14T05:59:00.000-07:002019-10-14T05:59:20.528-07:00State of grace<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve got it today, had it
yesterday,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but for tomorrow who can really
know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">because grace is a state that
comes and goes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">when humans behave in the
strangest of ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fortunately so it always is there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">buried down deep waiting to rise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and bloom like a rose to offset
the thorns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">life is so keen to challenge us
with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So we rise to the challenge and
not to the grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and cut the thorns down however
we can<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but with never a care for those
poor lowly thorns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">grace will forever stay out of
our reach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I’ve got it today and I
celebrate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">while keeping the faith that it
never will leave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but, of course, it never can ever
do that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">while totally comfortable within
our keep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However, sometimes it cries day
and night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">for lonely it is without our
company<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and really how much does it cost
to visit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and spend some time in a state of
grace?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-30869376150947775502019-09-14T01:46:00.001-07:002019-09-14T01:46:51.012-07:00Agony<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rain
doesn’t wash the agony out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
it simply spreads it around<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
and allows it to settle where ere it will<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
while waiting for times to change.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
And change like a storm sometimes <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
and sometimes an unnoticed drizzle <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
but change a definite and certain outcome<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
after agony of a day, month, year.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
It’s the waiting that lays one down inert<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
unable to rise to the new and untried<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
so the this or that lays claim to mind<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
and creates complete and utter confusion.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
Now confusion like a devil incarnate<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
that overloads the mind, heart, soul,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
to cause withdrawal from the meaningful<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
until, until, well, perhaps the next storm.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
But in between the storms and drizzles<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
there is the sun and new growth<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
if we can but know and certainly feel<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
something’s growing behind the times.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
Let there be peace and so it must be<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
to enable that “thing” to grow happily<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
without the distraction of agony<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
and the devil’s work of confusion!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-17615219342597595412019-08-04T22:34:00.000-07:002019-08-04T22:34:05.812-07:00Spinning<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Round and round and round<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and it ain’t no mulberry bush<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but rather this thing called life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that attracts the whim of
circumstance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and spirals out of all control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Caught so in its evil trap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">we fight to release ourselves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and we do when the wind dies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but, lo/behold ‘tis just a spell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">before that wind comes back
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And it blows, and it blows, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">day in and day out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">until exhausted we collapse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">into the sleep of the dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sleeping so we hope to gain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the strength to carry on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">spinning, spinning, spinning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">until the next release.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And so of that spin/release<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it surely is a testing ground <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but I wonder when if ever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">we’ll pass that damn exam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And as we go with the flow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">we can only hope and pray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">for that stillness that surpasses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">all out understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-69437423571792149572019-07-12T10:23:00.000-07:002019-07-12T10:23:26.560-07:00Strife<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The sun sinks slowly, slowly, down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">o’er the strife of humankind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and sits there like a devil hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">to leave no escape route.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And so the strife is quite content<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">to way mere mortals down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and bar entry to our state of grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that waits so patiently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So to that state of grace I say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">don’t wait for invitations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">but gather strength and infiltrate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that evil barrier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And then, and then, what happiness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">will o’er take humankind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">but I wonder, yes, I do,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">can that ever be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">but then again, perhaps not!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-7950983273150184252019-05-02T17:42:00.002-07:002019-05-02T17:42:58.480-07:00End of an era<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This is a story written from
my own poem titles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Perhaps a bit of truth buried
in it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">THE
END OF AN ERA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Shadows sing to the music of a
moment but in Africa I’m listening to the frogs instead of Jingle Bells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should take a gentle stroll through the minefield
of the mall but it’s a bad place to be and quite a bothersome ordeal at
Christmas time so see me like a phantom in a dream purporting to be real in a
summer haze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Reality is born in the old in
me but if it’s Sunday, it must be story time and the poor and needy, lonely,
sad, like the fallen and the dead in a village of humanity can think that
there’s a rainbow on a dark horizon when the rain falls and not think of
cyclical manoeuvres felt but unseen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Winter is turning the air of
love into an emotive roll but it doesn’t matter in Africa, South Africa, where
life is good in the turn, turn around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s not like yesterday but it’s alright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Someone laughs between the
trees and believe I would in secrets if not for the flame, desire, walking,
talking, of wisdom and hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not as if it matters that I read from
left to right when the sun, the son, is a million steps behind after the summer
sun because I am love born anew in the shadows of the truth and the river sings
beyond the limits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Someone whispers Christmas
thoughts and wishes but nothing makes any sense and so I dream again of rich
and juicy plums at the edge of need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
one needs to know about the jump and spirit plans because goodbye is just a
word in the mind of a woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t
die but I believe it was me with blue eyes and backbone in the garden of love
on wash day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m waiting for the sun,
the sun, and not the wind and bricks of change!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">How the people lie – don’t ask
me why but there’s always a sign beyond the tone when I’m sleepless in
S.A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am the will to believe in love
because and simply so because of evolution, you see, and not because I throw
“them” bones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I dream of the
weatherman and what to wear these days if not paradise clothes when I don’t
look down like an artist on a wire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
where do dreams go?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I think the energy of soul is
the sinking sun and not the bread of life when the power of love like one last
flickering fire in February memories but this isn’t confession time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a story from titles and the words I
heard before a summer rose sank in the quicksand of goodbye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not echoes of indecision or a story of a
“she” but men of the land, beware because she cries again and Sunday’s nameless
woman, a once beautiful china doll, now just the words of spring from me to
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Thunder rumbles when a river
meets the sea and waves of thought like dream energy come back above my head in
the blue, so blue, of sky and tonight perhaps I am now like a willow tree in
the game of life and not a girl turned woman, older now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Who writes of love’s awakening
and what the spirit knows in the silence of heartache?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is love?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hey you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why don’t you let it
out?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love is a friend they say not the
happy-sac of heart in the shadows of a picture un-perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It’s the wall of truth fresh
from the earth in spheres of the natural where once a budding rose, my heart,
folded first in the deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be calm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love alone in the waiting game like a lily
amidst brambles, thorns, of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Wine, women, and song and the
matador and the bull like an acorn in the lost lining of sweetness in the pit
of a soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Left or right over a
mountain?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot stay at the crossover
point in the mist in mid May in case the demon of need would catch, grab, and
keep my head/heart and the eyes of a woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps but maybe not the time has come for spirit love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">As a river flows so my train
of thought of what I don’t/do want to know about love’s empathy but, really, I
won’t go there no more because the skeleton of doubt like formations of rock
when I get there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Intuition tells me
that if time could know more about winter roses and crosswise manoeuvres, there
would be no deceit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Spells are cast over dying
trees and the common heart and love and someone needs to pay attention because
the call is for growth spurts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To think
there can be rainbows in life’s tapestry when the wind blows cold just
illusionary sketches in the silent spaces of a last plea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Behind the voice of thunder a
flower blooms similar to the perfume of a heart and that’s alright because the
air I breathe brings peace after the tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oh, to love like a lovely lady but where I’m at there’s no love’s hold
in the circle of my soul and this is my confession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could go to a land called Swaziland for
just a release but sun touches windswept roads in the overthrow of summer and I
might imagine things in love’s sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">How do you feel when exhausted
with no hope or new car under the African sky?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only one tree as a symbol of human need in memory but be still because
in the grooves and threads run leprechauns and ghouls to frighten a caveman not
to mention the termites and rats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">God saw it was good that she
dances again and so I write the words of love at the start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Praise me for this bonus pain because
partners like the sea and the shore have knock-on effects in unholy matrimony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It’s been said that the music
makers pull the strings off the wings of simple things but that’s just a ramble
for the good of soul transplanted in the grey and not a last and final call for
memories to play ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The grey sky in descent like
handmade footsteps of dreams and how knowing this progression around the
mulberry bush of unrequited love but I’ll remember today/yesterday and the glow
of summer over rolling hills until one to twelve, the end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Emotion speaks in the swing of
time, “Be my Valentine” but decisions, decisions, and who gives way to new
life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In simple terms it’s simply this;
it was only a dream of your touch and her walk into withdrawal only shadows in
the glare of necessity vs. need. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Court is in session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You did it all and on appeal I’ll give you a
woman’s tears but it’s not the usual please pity me or story of a monkey
because it’s all in the mind of only an “I” of the gender feminine where once
no unconditional love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Heaven isn’t bliss but God
speed the stream of ecstasy and the voice of a poet to the morning after when
it’s the need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One fine day when I know
the air of dreams is at the window only me perhaps will see a woodman’s fire
and say, “thank goodness it’s Friday and not a collision in sky”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">No one is driving complacency
like a stream in heaven because backward energy is lazy sometimes and wayward
steps make no impression when the light changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun, alone tonight but at ease on the
ride, asks, “What if I hear her pray for the plight of innocence and I think
it’s about me and not love’s rope and the colours of a heart?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The “thing” or “things” in
value-pack bags in the artful warp of time like a volcano shooting pebbles,
mere pebbles, at the base of my heart but in the likeness of man is Mike from
the north and this I know from the murmurings of sea and the night sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Where is the river of my
yesterdays?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the groove on the edge of
love’s punishment as yesterday when Sally broke my heart?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Pat-a-cake; what to pack when
love cannot and will not be God, the air, emotion, or a mouse who learnt to
shout like the sea when at the limit of endurance?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather let me die towards the end of May
because life is about hands and perceptions of air when time is my master.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">She thought it best to write a
note but not me soon into air to ride a cloud like Will-o’-the-Wisp past moving
walls when the train has no brakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
seek to find vintage wine not the merry minstrels or magicians of the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let nobody say we cannot fly or write a
little ditty for light relief from illusive love or only one silly tale for
today but not yet because it’s time for Sunday’s story of a ball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Dear Diary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
story of a man and story of a searcher, I would say “so and so” like a swan
about love and to love following on dancing with the stars before the swing,
slam, dunk, from butterfly wings of once-upon-a-time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, if I was love like the sea and the sky
and not the night from the light!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">She asks, “Is this the
untitled and unfounded confession of sky, of daisies, or of the “This Is Me”
from the inner or the outer because I could wilt like the rabbit and the
tortoise?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No”, says the queen of the
sky in wilful protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This is just
my thought for the day because it’s Sunday and the countdown to another Sunday!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">There once was … but, no,
that’s it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Helen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">6 November 2005 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(and that's that - the end of
an era)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-44800963821323914552019-04-26T02:45:00.000-07:002019-04-26T02:45:51.423-07:00How knowing<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Wise are the ears to hear in a crowd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">the plea of a pebble down on the ground<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">to arise as a boulder large and stately <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">in belief of a power, the great Almighty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Keen are the eyes of limitless sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">to spot at a distance the beauty of life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">multiplying and changing but never to leave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">the storehouse of mind’s enlarged memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But how knowing the trees of mankind’s
greed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">and the sea in denial of hostility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">still believes and behaves exactly the
same<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">as it did in the days before I was made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Then there is me with a need to be true <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">and embrace the fullness of a new view <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">like a mother, a lover, a friend, human
being,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">saved from disease and internal bruising.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But how knowing I am of seasons and tides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">and the overpowering need of these times<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">to uphold the system of death and
destruction <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">as a reason to not try for perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Mortal ears and eyes; do they perhaps lie <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">or merely impound the wisdom of mind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-76705091371854230202019-04-22T06:32:00.000-07:002019-04-22T06:32:27.014-07:00Backwards<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For many years she tiptoed around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the real and meaningful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in the hope that life would
reward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">her brave if foolish attempts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There were walls and circles to
walk around,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">very many doors to be closed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and a heart to be chained up and
locked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and she did indeed do it all with
aplomb. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And yet she was shadowed by the
meaningful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that lurked in the corners of her
daily life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">till finally, finally,
unexpectedly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it blocked her forward momentum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She had to go backwards sight
unseen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to find that lost meaningful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and although she stumbled and
fell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">she finally arrived at the door
of awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She was welcomed, of course, with
open arms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but now she can never return<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but that’s okay because she knows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">she had to be there to be here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And so of journeys let them not
ever be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a complete and utter waste of
time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">by propelling us forward and not
backwards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">into awareness of the meaningful!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-55242633844207388772019-04-07T13:04:00.000-07:002019-04-07T13:04:02.285-07:00The mind<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When all that was has faded away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">there is no rope to tie the mind <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to the stake of present times<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">so it wanders through the past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">touching this and touching that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">like a blind man would.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are no guidelines or
directions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and no schedule or time clock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to ring the start/stop bell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and always the mind likes to
surprise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">with what it decides to remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It mingles tears with the smiles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and heartache with happiness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and dangles on a string<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a variety of peculiar things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that passed at the time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">with no understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Intent on its quest the mind
proceeds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to traverse the times that made
or broke<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">human strength and fortitude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and I wish sometimes it would
simply bow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and leave the stage of what was back
then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not to be; the mind’s a beast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">untethered and undisciplined<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and now and forever will always
be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the most vile and worst enemy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of the present times!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-28020280942551387822019-03-15T11:46:00.000-07:002019-03-15T11:46:48.323-07:00A gypsy story<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
wanted to travel from here to there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
thought the hill a mere bump in the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">so
she got out her old trusted wagon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
prepared for the journey ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
as she got to the bump in the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it
seemed to have grown out of all proportion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">so
she battled and strained, broke her composure,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
cried with the effort of going ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
there she was stuck half way up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">thinking
and thinking what to do next<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
as she pondered months turned into years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">while
she grew older and then too old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Too
old to go on, too old to go back,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">so
what was that gypsy to do? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
guess she planned in case, just in case,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">there
should ever be as some believe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">another
chance at this thing called life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
would she be, where would she be,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
I hope she has her blueprint complete<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">before
she decides to set herself free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">because
nothing happens without a plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
plans to this day and knows to believe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">she’ll
be in a place of safety and love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
that all the other attendant things <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">will
be as she means them to be!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-3134592661640089262019-03-10T22:05:00.004-07:002019-03-10T22:05:53.831-07:00Sadness<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
there’s sadness in the psyche<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it
creeps up to the eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
sits there like a predator<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">waiting
to pounce and devour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">settled
composure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
mostly happy living there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but
seemingly for no rhyme or reason<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it
needs a change in scenery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
propelled by an unknown force<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">runs
swiftly down the cheeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Soon,
too soon, it comes face to face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">with
determined intent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
quickly wipe away <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">all
trace of its existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
then it dies all alone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">outside
its comfort zone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">sorry
to have decided<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
go on walk-abouts <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">or
so it is thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Instead
it simply returns again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
settle in and be content<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">deep
in the psyche<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">until
restlessness sets in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
it prepares to pounce! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-42357105995601317802019-03-09T21:20:00.000-08:002019-03-09T21:20:30.793-08:00The heat<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She reads the words and nods her
head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Just like me” she says to self<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and knows at last she’s not alone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in the fierce and unrelenting
heat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of life’s, oh, so harsh demands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No energy or will to fight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">those demands that test her faith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and as the heat sinks deeper in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">she knows it’s looking for her
soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But in the still and silent night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">soul rises up to fight, fight,
fight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and dawn breaks on a cooler state<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to help her face another day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Caught in cycles all are we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">from joy to sadness, hot to cold,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but there is solace in the
thought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that all things pass away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And so she waits for the pause<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">between the good and the bad <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">so she can build a stronger soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to cut the heat off at the pass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where will it go she wonders now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but frankly, my dear, she doesn’t
care!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549873799974129123.post-10100326419676717982019-02-21T19:42:00.000-08:002019-02-21T19:42:15.737-08:00Green leaves<br />
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Soon green leaves will
turn to brown<o:p></o:p></div>
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and what was once so
beautiful<o:p></o:p></div>
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will simply fall to
ground <o:p></o:p></div>
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and the tree will stand
as one <o:p></o:p></div>
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barren and bereft.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And in this state the
tree begins<o:p></o:p></div>
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to contemplate the past<o:p></o:p></div>
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and to think that
surely, surely,<o:p></o:p></div>
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the pain and anguish,
heartache<o:p></o:p></div>
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will not come again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It takes a time before
the tree<o:p></o:p></div>
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decides to take a
chance<o:p></o:p></div>
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and bless the world
again<o:p></o:p></div>
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with the beauty of
green leaves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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But growing up so very
hard to do<o:p></o:p></div>
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and soon the pain and
heartache<o:p></o:p></div>
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creeps into all green
leaves<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the suffering
begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And then silently they
carry on<o:p></o:p></div>
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waving in the breeze <o:p></o:p></div>
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and doing what leaves
do<o:p></o:p></div>
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in the world of man.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The tree watches and
waits<o:p></o:p></div>
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for the season to
change<o:p></o:p></div>
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and asks, “can I, can I,
<o:p></o:p></div>
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do it all again?”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t know for how
can trees<o:p></o:p></div>
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grow the, oh, so
beautiful<o:p></o:p></div>
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that are doomed to
suffer, die,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and then disappear from
mind?<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I watch and I wait!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Helen Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096694272378730381noreply@blogger.com0