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
Brown and distorted like old winter leaves hopes, wishes, needs, litter the ground where once dew drops foretold happiness in their own unique glitter and shine. Trees acquiesce to the chill of the times and adopt a grave and sombre repose as a way of convincing the inbred beautiful to sleep away grief until born [...]
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I do not want to be a woman who believes there’s a reason for the tears that fall continually. I do not want to be a woman so in need that life a chore untenable and love a means to grieve. I do not want to be a woman with a memory that overtakes my [...]
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‘twas not the spark of passion nor the advent of desire but the shudder/shake of terror brought up from her recalls. It’s not to say she didn’t know love hovered near to still her fear but so much more she needed then to make of life a good event. It didn’t come. She called again, [...]
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I guess this is unrequited love!
A poem inspired by unrequited love.
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From within the heartache overspills and cuts grooves within contentment to make of volcanoes matchbox toys lined up for keen inspection for nought can equal or outmatch the energetic free-fall force of a woman’s tears. But pooled within and confined behind barriers of maturity they call forth a brighter, hotter, sun into the deep interior [...]
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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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