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 tune of love played hauntingly for many a day undisturbed until the seriousness of a rebuff made of the ears non-working organs. But everyone knows the ears aren’t soul and soul still listens and sings along like an uncontrollable wilful child while the parent wails and bemoans its complete and utter inability to produce [...]
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Summer’s glory a thing of the past not destined to ere come again while clouds of grey, rain and hail, stand full on life’s centre stage. I shiver sometimes for it shouldn’t be that summer bows out to winter and brings back again the intolerable like karma not yet resolved. It’s an evil trick that [...]
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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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Not yet but soon to be a prince the one who dubbed his mother “queen” and served her with the humbleness of ordinary love. It is and always has been the core of ordinary that begets a wave unleashed upon the population because one of all and everything divides, divides, divides, and then multiplies to [...]
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She didn’t stop to look amazed at the progress of the flame from slow to fast and furious, from loving to indifferent, and from belief into the chasm of uncertainty. Instead she stopped to look amazed at the wind of happenstance that reduces love’s tall stature to the likeness of liquid candle wax. Breathe! She [...]
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Love is unable and cannot, will not, bind man to land for eternity but rather allows a soul to evolve beyond the confines of human existence. Immortality is the promise of love, pretenders will not be granted entry, but how do we qualify, what must we do, to receive and enjoy such a wonderful gift? [...]
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A sadness o’er lays the glory of days and nights become darker than dark in the knowing that love’s energy remains confined and restricted to only the perimeter of skin, fat, muscle, bone. It cannot creep in to the mind of men or into the heart of women unless its presence is made known in [...]
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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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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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She thought to let the matter slip into the garbage bin of mind from where no reflux back into the realms of heart’s desire. So come the day when mind repels this nonsense of perceived reason the matter floats around about the good and bad of each season. Nowhere to go and homeless love useless [...]
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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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