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
A tapestry of love’s desire stitched and weaved with memories unravels in two hearts apart and lays bare the needs of soul. But threads of past intensity unrelenting stay attached like spirit hands in devil lands won’t leave well enough alone. In this unholy matrimony a mind entwined can’t disengage from the snap and crackle, [...]
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When a bough breaks it’s no silent affair but a heart wrenching cry from the core of a tree for a part of itself has withered and died on the ground where the world passes it by. The tree is half bare but nobody cares that once it held flowers and leaves and stood as [...]
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As the world turns round and round so spins the one who loves slow motion it would seem from the then into the now. That spin is like a crown of truth that adorns my thoughts and moves and glitters its beliefs from the mental realms of memory to the present physical. I step out [...]
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It’s a constant clickety-click, click-click of time rolling down the tracks with no more a mountain or steep incline to slow what cannot be stopped or a pause at the junction between then and now to take on more meaningful stuff. Clickety-click, click-click, click-click, on and on to nowhere, somewhere, where time makes its very [...]
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Inspired by a Christmas tree
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Thoughts on the needs of others.
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A poem inspired by a lack of understanding.
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Thoughts on reincarnation
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A poem highlighting the need of love to be related to someone close-up and visible.
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Down at the tip of the southern shore where the sea always flows as before the eyes of a searcher look far ahead but soon unwillingly return once again to where she started out from. No grain of sand is exempted from the eternal movement of life’s restlessness but she is now anchored and firmly [...]
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Helen's enlightened journey is now available in her five published poetry books:
Beneath The Ordinary
Simply Love
In Africa, South Africa
Moments
Dream Woman
Dreamtime Poetry was voted one of the top 40 poetry blogs by 'Guide to Art Schools'
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