Helen Slade Art and Poetry
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  • Artist’s Statement
  • Paintings
  • Poet’s Statement
  • Impromptu Musings
    • Introduction
    • Poems about the Cosmos
      • Universe
      • Fire
      • Orbit
      • Tektite
      • Disaster
      • Orion
      • Solstice
      • The Dynamics Dance
      • Cosmic Revelations
    • Poems about Nature
      • Nature
      • Spiral
      • Quartz
      • Sunset
      • Bifurcation
      • The Crow
      • Global Warning
      • Lake Reflection
      • Watching Clouds
      • Garden Haiku
      • Millennial Haiku
    • Poems about Life 1
      • The Turmoil Touch
      • Life
      • Be
      • Knowing
      • Joy
      • Universal for Everyone
      • Abrogation
      • Information Technology
      • Blue
      • The View
      • Life’s Paradox
    • Poems about Life 2
      • Moment
      • Idea
      • The Act of Creation
      • No Second Chance
      • Memories
      • Think Negatively
      • Concert
      • Card Table
      • Death
      • Contemplating Creativity
      • Interlude
      • Life’s Lament
    • Poems about People 1
      • Destruction
      • Lost Memory
      • Despair
      • Agony and Ecstasy
      • Socialight
      • Duplessis’ Orphans
      • Musician
      • Homage to Catullus’ Poem Five
      • Possessed
      • Johnny Nick
      • Gossip
      • We Are Moved
    • Poems About People 2
      • Daimon
      • Love Is
      • Insomnia
      • Men/Women
      • Retrocognition
      • Drag Queen
      • Dead Mr. Redmond
      • Mike
      • Juvenal Satire Number Six (Satirising the Satirist)
      • Alexander
      • Skier
    • Poems about People 3
      • The Constant Mind
      • Avoid the Sacred
      • Breakdown
      • Tea Room
      • Nicotine
      • Discord
      • For Catullus
      • Phantom
      • People—Make Me
      • Artistic
      • Don’t Want
    • Poems about Places 1
      • Shamrock Homage
      • Sweet Memories
      • Desert Winds
      • Rubaiyat
      • The Gorge Tide
      • Death of a Cone
      • Assyrian Bas-Relief (British Museum)
      • St. Giles Cathedral Edinburgh
      • Above the Clouds
      • Isle
      • Sydney Sights
      • Ice Garden
    • Poems about Places 2
      • I Remember the Fens
      • Pender Harbour—Past Tense
      • Persian Garden
      • Rubaiyat
      • Crowded Cars—England
      • Traffic
      • Lake District October (Kirkstone Pass)
      • Ritz Tea
      • Greenland Uncovered (October)
      • Roman Villa
      • Churchyard
    • Poems about Plants
      • Bluebell
      • Convolvulus
      • Arum Maculatum
      • Autumn Crocus (Colchicum autumnale)
      • Yellow Maple
      • Fungus Forays
      • Seasonal Flowers
    • Poems about Seasons
      • Spring
      • Summer
      • Autumn—Fall
      • A Walk in the Snow
      • January
      • March Snow
      • Autumn Walk
      • Seasonal Changes
    • Poems about Spirituality
      • Labyrinthine
      • Seek Truth
      • The Search
      • Hinduism
      • Buddha
      • Sufism
      • Non-Duality
      • Creativity
      • Belief
      • Duality
      • Death Moment
  • Observations on Chaos
    • Introduction
    • Life
      • Epiphany During the Ninth
      • Connecting the Circle
      • Sexual Evolution
      • Apple Cider
      • Interruptus
      • Sweet Torment
      • Misunderstanding
      • A Discourse on Depression
    • Nature
      • Blackberrying
      • Miraculous Migration
      • A Passion for Plants
      • Raven
      • Daydream
      • Natural
      • Nature’s Chaotic Balance
      • Ruination
      • Fog Falls
      • Winter Sleep
      • Gang
    • People
      • Spring Reunion
      • Minstrel
      • Can’t Help Myself
      • Help Yourself
      • Undone by Donne
      • Isaac Newton—The Man
      • Helen—Not a Love Story
      • A Woman’s Place
      • Pilot (For Daniel)
      • Finding the Celt
      • Boudicca’s Curse
      • The Lottery Fairy
    • Places
      • Gatcombe Church
      • Helenaia
      • Halyard Chorus
      • The Gold of Italia
      • The Crisis in Little Borning
      • Vegas
      • October—Early Morning—Hampton Court Grounds
    • Science
      • Backward Time
      • Participatory Universe
      • Artist—Scientist
      • Isaac Newton—Scientist
      • Research
      • Chaos
      • Naked Singularities
  • A Variety of Visions
    • Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
      • Chronology
      • The Italian Connection
      • Sonnets
      • The Sonnets in Sequence
      • Hiding the Truth
      • Mea Culpa
      • Character Study
      • Postscript
    • Queen Elizabeth I and Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond
      • Elizabeth and Thomas
      • The Cecil Connection
      • Thomas as Earl, Elizabeth as Queen
      • Ireland
      • Back to England
      • Piers FitzThomas Butler
      • Finale
    • A Variety of Well-known People
      • Anthony Minghella, Writer and Director, In His Own Words
      • Thomas Paine
      • The Master of His Fate
      • “Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor’s Life for Me)”
      • His Own Person, His Own Choice
      • An Ideal Direction
      • William Butler Yeats in London
      • Vincent’s Colours and Chaos
    • A Variety of People
      • Hemorrhage
      • Southern Speech
      • Future Imperfect
      • Oldtime Village Gossip
      • Winnie the Pooh
      • Wise Woman—A Story
      • Folk Dance
      • Damaged
      • Don’t
      • Dimples
      • Time for Some Nonsense. Tuvis and Uvran
      • A Parody for a Not So Coy Mistress
      • Princess
      • The Iliad – Beginning
    • A Variety of Places
      • Coffee Shop
      • Planetary Ruin
      • The Eighties
      • The Stiper Stones
      • Pilgrimage
      • A Medieval Herb Garden
      • Dolbadarn
      • Cader Idris
      • Magnificent Magnetism
      • Space Junk? The Helen Repulsive Factor
      • Hy-Brasil
      • The Bronze Age in Cambridgeshire
      • The Circus
    • The Variety of Nature
      • Daffodils
      • Rhododendron
      • Walking Stick
      • Crows – Ravens
      • Foxglove
    • The Variety of Life
      • Star Dream
      • End
      • Creativity
      • Insight—Flashback
      • English Haiku—Various Topics 5-7-5
      • Death
      • Being—In Irish
      • The Sweeping Fire of Creativity
      • A History of Hugging
      • Hymn
      • The Default Mode Network (DMN) and Creativity

Poems about People 3

The Constant Mind

Avoid the Sacred

Breakdown

Tea Room

Nicotine

Discord

For Catullus

Phantom

People—Make Me

Artistic

Don’t Want

 

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