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Best Helena Poems

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Premium Member Loving Helena
The chair is her home, her universe now
It is all that her many years will allow
Helena’s elegant beauty once shone
Now her mind wanders a world...

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Categories: helena, family, peopleme, grandchild, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Helena
She moves in glorious motion,
Her progress marked by many eyes.
A vision to delight the crowd 
gathered together for this her debut.

Coloured ribbons adorn her, as
She...

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Categories: helena, allegory, beauty,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Helena-W
Make men stretch their arms, to wake in her eyes
Finger on lip, ring not on middle, mouth lovely
With hair like lakes that glint beneath the...

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Categories: helena, me,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Her Name Was Helena
grandma never knew her name until she was an adult
and it was Helena (some kind of birth certificate mix up) 
she embraced her new found...

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Categories: helena, granddaughter, grandmother, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Helena
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With embers
rekindling strength upon the wind
her pentacle calls
reaching calm virgin heights of rippling memory
 
Cradling mist of silence
a song, gallant among 
soft trees sway

She...

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Categories: helena, love, nature, seasons, uplifting
Form: Verse



Premium Member It Started With A Blank Canvas
My life began as one big blank canvas,
a sweet baby girl loved:
the second child for my parents,
yes, I had an older sister by one year;
Suzanne,...

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Categories: helena, life, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Deus Ex Machina
“deus ex machina”


When LOVE came knocking at our door
we stood there opposite sides
like torn pages 
from the chapters of a banned book 
with no spine...

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Categories: helena, art, courage, fun, imagery,
Form: Romanticism
Dance For Dionysus
Tanka/ Haiku

Dionysian’s
Drunken Roman Bacchante (1)  footnotes 
God of the Maenads'  (2)
Female appreciation
Tainted murderous servants

Maniacal twist
Hold each- a sensuous kiss
Trained not by hubris
Phalli held...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helena, faith, mystery, religion, mythology,
Form: Tanka
Snapshots From a Child's West London
I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack, 
How I loved those Wednesday evenings, 
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps, 
The different coloured...

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Categories: helena, child, childhood, children, england,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Setting Sail For Italy
Demitrios the golden Spartan captain sets sail for Italy 
against the western wind; he will certainly mourn Piraeus,
and with sorrow-striken eyes, he'll invoke Poseidon. 
Then...

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Categories: helena, character, city, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Spirit Broken Again
Spirit broken again

 
                     ...

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Categories: helena, bereavement, death, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Narrative
Napoleon Bonaparte
Corsica born, and an emperor mighty indeed.
Who from obscurity came up to prominence,
who from French shores the attacks of armies repelled,
who had at his disposal,...

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Categories: helena, history,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Close Encounter (Co-Written With James Fraser)
Galactic gases with oxygen mix
Inject my pod for my mission to earth
To search the galaxies and look for life
Universe quadrants, many left in dearth
 
...

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Categories: helena, friendship, science, science fiction,
Form: Quatrain
Love-In-Idleness
Smiling, it squirts its juices, 
delighting in matchmaking,
just like Cupid, whose misaimed arrow, 
it recalls, once struck it.

Lucentio and Bianca:
a happy match;
they owe much to...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helena, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Secret Love Prevailed Between Two Hostile Families
Love is so powerful between Andy and Helena after their love grew up to the climax they found themselves in a situation where no one...

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Categories: helena, boyfriend, faith, grief,
Form: Imagism

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