About Helen

Helen Howell resides in Bedfordview, South Africa. Her journey into the world of writing began in the year 2000 and the insights, thoughts, and feelings presented to you here are those of an ordinary woman who feels that she has been privileged to touch on the outline of life’s true meaning.

That touch is displayed here for readers to determine according to individual and personal perceptions.

If you would like to contact Helen you can email her at helen@dreamtimepoetry.com

The sea

Posted by Helen Howell on August 20, 2009

The sea came in from way out there where love’s a stable entity to tell of many grandiose things and the beauty of it all. But the shore possessed of seashells, grit, and discarded human garbage could not absorb or understand the sea’s need and wish to be the bearer of good tidings. Sea stayed [...]

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Bedtime story

Posted by Helen Howell on June 19, 2009

Mist swirls as if propelled to be a lifelong living entity but creation writes the story and makes of mist a seasonal and passing happenstance. In comes in low and stealthily with the mind of a criminal intent on stealing love and ransacking true insight and then it disappears as fate decrees it must to [...]

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The “pretty weird”

Posted by Helen Howell on April 19, 2009

The “pretty weird” sits like a bloated frog on a rock in the centre of town surveying the scene as if it’s a king and ruler of lesser mortals. It croaks from a platform above the norm donned as it is in regal attire and delivers its message forcefully to those not yet in the [...]

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