Helen Surina

Poet, Blogger, Listed as Golden Poet in Library of Congress, penname e.e.surina, Beyonder,amateur painter/artist...

[Monique - Host of #vss365 Aug 16-31 @starfish_72]

Dear writers, not all of your postings appear under the #vss365 hashtag for me. So sorry if I miss some. I am reading as many as possible.

[Kira @kira_clarke]

Tragedy
Is a cage

Humour
Is a key

#WriteMap
💔🔑

[Helen Surina @atownvoice]

the song you sing so softly
by my side
the fear of flight subsides

abide this night
passion incite
light love's flame

paradise awaits
yearnings desire satiate
#together satisfied remain

#poetry #WriteMap #poetrycommunity

[Amy Christie @cri_amy]

The moon was only half tonight,
and somehow that felt more honest than whole
proof that something can be missing
and still pour light into the dark.

Maybe I am half of something too,
still waiting for what once made me complete
but even half a heart keeps glowing,
when it remembers how deeply it loved.

Good night 💜

[iAmWriting @AudreySemprun]

Some words edgy, razor sharp
While others soft, but effective
She weighs them all nowadays
Sometimes she still rambles
Chasing dreams, or rabbit trails
It's all the same to her
& sometimes on quiet nights
She can hear the rhythm of the stars as she says nothing at all
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[🆅🅰🅻🅴🅽🆃🅸🅽🅾 @WildeDire]

No one writes poems
about towels.
about the particular tenderness
of someone
who wraps you
in warmth
after you've been
exposed to something cold....
who doesn't ask
what happened,
who doesn't need
the story,
who just sees you
standing there
wet and undone
and offers
the simplest,
softest thing.
she was that.
again and again
she was that...
the warm #towel
in every cold moment,
the quiet hands
that dried
what the world
had soaked,
the ordinary grace
of being
cared for
without having
to ask.
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[🆅🅰🅻🅴🅽🆃🅸🅽🅾 @WildeDire]

Love can be
a #razor thing...
bright, precise,
beautiful in its edges,
dangerous
in the wrong hands.
and i came to her
with the wrong hands...
unsteady,
unguarded,
reaching for something
that caught the light
so perfectly
i forgot
what it could do.
she cut me.
of course she did.
not with malice...
razors don't hate
what they open.
they just do
what sharp things do
to soft ones
that get
close enough
to matter.
#vss365

[✨Tink✨ @sad_lil_clown]

Oh the fairies, the fairies, with wings all a flutter
they dance on the dewdrops and dive through the gutter
they zip and they zoom where the wild winds blow
to play with the ribbons of a bright rainbow
with a swish and a swoosh and a zippity zing
they tug at the red like a wobbly string
they braid up the blue and they yank on the green
making the messiest mess you've ever seen
twisting colors this way, twisting colors that
they wrap them round toadstools, they knot them in hats
they spin them like taffy, they stretch them like dough
those mischievous fairies of the mystic rainbow
they juggle the yellow, they tickle the pink
they twirled and swirled the purple with a giggle and wink
they tie up the orange in a big floppy bow
and hand it to snails who move terribly slow
they squish and they swoosh, then they let the hues go
and plink...back it snaps to the sky's colorful show
so if ever you spot a rainbow gone wonk
with colors all crinkled and colors all bonked
just know that the fairies were putting on a show
twisting the colors of the bright rainbow

*Twisting colors
#bionicanadian @bionicanadian

[🌘 𝕸𝖎𝖉𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝕬𝖈𝖍𝖊 🌒 @MidnightAche99]

This is the part no one understands about loving someone you cannot have.

You do not simply miss them.

You carry them.

Into the silence.

Into sleep.

Into every beautiful thing that suddenly feels incomplete because they are not there to see it.

You become haunted by a life that never existed.

[Helen Surina @atownvoice]

As spirit and soul #together exit
Ego journeys to the morgue
Body is respectfully laid to rest
Name claims the story of its' life
Scientists #hunt for death's deliverer
Believers in #fate remind us death Is inevitable
Truth of the past lives on in the future
#WriteMap #poetry

[Helen Surina @atownvoice]

#Between happiness and despair
a deepening chasm appears
I hesitate to continue
feeling inadequate unprepared
Repetitive questions signify ignorance
a spreading gloom dulls the moon's radiance
Ropes of hope dangle frayed useless
leaving searcher thoughtless
#WriteMap #poetry

[Helen Surina @atownvoice]

unanswered letters
canceled appointments
extra shifts
working late
frozen dinners
patient pillows
silent sheets
#together testify
lonely life
#WriteMap #poetry #poetrycommunity

[Sanya @sanjaraic1]

she lives on the edge
of day & dream
where borders loosen
their grip
& certainty
changes sides
her country is elsewhere
& everywhere
a place kept in thought
outside of given
a notion of strangers
being less strange
& the world tilting
beyond its meridians

#poetry #bionicanadian

[Catherine Beavis @CatherineBeavis]

You, my midnight muse
my poetry of sighs
where under the night skies
my reveries of you come alive
where you come & dream with me
floating up
soaring high
caressing me
as i imagine your starlight kisses
a look of longing in your eyes
a breathless love from
You, my midnight muse

[Helen Surina @atownvoice]

you brand me #bad
I just disagree
you're fond of your reflection
but reject the internal me
there is more love in the unknown
here is no longer home

#WriteMap #poetry #poetrycommunity

[Clive Reed @CliveReed57]

waves roll in
clouds hang
fingers #comb the sand
warm and granular as elemental
yet soft as a lamb
the tender voice
of the ripples
gently undulating in
I have heard and felt
and seen heaven
and I will come again
#vss365 #poetry

[🪦⚰️𝑨𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉 ☠️📜 @eatenbymadness]

You will always be the one I want to be with, in every universe and in every lifetime,
Across the endless stars and through the softest stretch of time.

No matter where the story leads or how the pages turn,
My heart will keep returning to the only one it yearns.

In every version of this life, in every world we might create,
You are the constant I would choose, the love that feels like fate.

Through different skies and different names, through every rise and fall,
I would still find my way to you and give you all of me, all.

No distance, no dimension, no lifetime left untried,
Could ever change the quiet truth that lives so deep inside.

You are the home my soul would seek no matter where I roam,
The one I want beside me in every place that feels like home.

You will always be the one I want to be with, now and then,
In this life and the next ones, again and once again.

Across every universe, through every life we’ll ever know,
My heart will keep on choosing you — the only place I want to go.

[Helen Surina @atownvoice]

@sad_lil_clown This brought tears. 💜

[Letothenoticer @letothenot16993]

A different life begins with a thought,
A quiet dream the heart has sought.
So let this Monday plant the seed,
And give tomorrow what you need.

[Helen Surina @atownvoice]

longing searches for a quiet place
hurt sits still upon a bench
loneliness wishes for a friendly face
#ashamed battles fear of disgrace
no sound escapes teeth clenched
till pain cracks shock's armored embrace
and naivety realizes what happened was rape
#vss365 #poetrycommunity