The “I love you”

Posted by Helen Howell on May 30, 2010

So when the “I love you” breaks free there’s no earthquake or upheaval of what has always been but it’s like the air is cleaner and the sky celebrates the advent of honesty. It dances on the spot like a gypsy dressed in blue and swirls the clouds round about its own form of happiness [...]

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An ordinary thing

Posted by Helen Howell on April 23, 2010

It’s just an ordinary thing but no standard weight and measure to fit within the cabinet of a lifetime’s memories. It doesn’t have a brand name according to my history or a pseudonym to indicate its not how it appears and, in fact, it’s simply blank like a page before a poet has begun the [...]

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A candle unlit

Posted by Helen Howell on April 3, 2010

I still have a candle unlit by love in perfect and pristine condition and it tempts me sometimes to find what it takes to destroy its manner of being. Nothing, you see, should stand unlit by love’s so enflamed desire but it happens some times when we choose not to touch and know of the [...]

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A simple cry

Posted by Helen Howell on March 25, 2010

When the line is unbroken between heart and eyes there’s no getting away from a simple cry but a cry’s not simple; it’s a spiked cocktail where inputted love fights conditioning. The fight rages for a second or more like sea as it pounds on immovable rocks until the waves rise, up, higher up, and [...]

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Illusive love

Posted by Helen Howell on March 14, 2010

Free and weightless floating there lost thoughts in me like breathing air dispatch desire and need to sky and draw me up like smoke from fire. Crushing blows and then dismay turn nights to days in life’s foray but love, illusive love, lays down its heart and soul into the ground. It should fight and [...]

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I love

Posted by Helen Howell on March 10, 2010

I love the feel of summer rain in fall upon my brow each drop a lover’s sweet caress, each drip a timeless vow. I love the feel of rising sun that fuels my memory and the night that holds just so my wishes and my dreams. I love the feel of autumn wind around my [...]

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Cocktails and little crumbs

Posted by Helen Howell on September 6, 2009

Life moves in and takes out dreams, wishes, hopes and needs and stirs and mixes cocktails like a barman paid to be a maker and creator. It has no mind for me to sense or heart to pump intent but, oh, so diligent it serves up and clears away like one who doesn’t know there [...]

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The memory of love

Posted by Helen Howell on May 15, 2009

They’re back again upon the bough that once tall, vibrant, proud, portrayed a greatness way beyond my simple understanding. I reached upward in need and awe; how can it be they do not leave that which now stands so forlorn unadorned, un-beautified? And so it is that naturally seasons offer grief and grace and all [...]

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An accident!

Posted by Helen Howell on May 5, 2009

Love is just an accident no surgery can fix and medication merely numbs its sheer intensity and indeed I take my daily dose like you, and you, and them unknowingly to procreate a flow of ignorance. The flow is fast, invincible, and unstoppable and pummels at the truth like a tsunami designed and made to [...]

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A story, yes, but maybe not

Posted by Helen Howell on April 17, 2009

Above where the stars twinkle and shine lies the land of the now unseen allowed to be free and loving according to the dictates passed through the ages to me. It’s a land of calm waters and torrents that find their own place to be and a land divided by thought and intent that ensures [...]

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