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
‘tis just a gentle snapping sound like a small branch underfoot that halts the stride of one endowed with a sense of urgency. And in the pause pure silence falls to weight the muscles with dismay till unable to regain the will nothing happens, zero, naught. The pose is most undignified, no directions left to [...]
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It’s just a trickle not a flood that courses down the cheeks of one when sadness overwhelms the day and empathy takes precedence. The reach and stretch to disengage loses force and lies dismayed within the heart and mind, the soul, of one bound up in love. And how to cut the strings of love [...]
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Love comes at its own time and takes us from the mundane into the extraordinary but to see it, feel it, know it, not for the feint hearted. The heart needs strength and fortitude and the will to survive through loss and grief and circumstance that twists its path into a maze with seemingly no [...]
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Stairs start and lengthen more from the dungeon of despair to make of every step a laboured affair. No man or beast, angelic friend, or sweetheart of the heart’s desire can lift the burden, ease the pain, or change a state of mind. But there always was and still is the self that knows no [...]
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The grass is green and “squishy” soft under one and two and many more footsteps placed just so and, oh, just so to satisfy the need of easy passage to where’re the journey ends. Little is known of the “far ahead” perceived as just a dream but when the grass turns brown and the ground [...]
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Like a golden orb of happiness the setting sun doth shine but the sun is moving all the time here to there and then nowhere and this movement like a lover determined not to care. The not to care an evil “thing” that grabs me by the throat and squeezes, squeezes, squeezes, until I backtrack [...]
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Only half of all there is like half a turn, half a yearn, half a thought, a wish, comes to one unmindful of the power of completion. This power like a furnace burns to heat up mind’s intent and send it searching in the rough for the perfect whole. I’m rather fond of commas because [...]
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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
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