Monday, April 1, 2024



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Love Poem:  the Ancient Greeks

 i
A continent full of snakes and spiders greeted
Paris on his march into Troy. He thought of Helen
while inside the Trojan horse, marking his love
for her on wooden beams with his sword.

When he dreamed of her, the seas whooshed him
back and forth to a bedchamber of camel hair
and wind-chimes.

ii
When Psyche brought home Cupid his dazzling 
red hair was not her parents' concern, but more 
his two wings that echoed a mellifluous lip music.


They were not impressed with the non-human
aspect of his sailing around the room,
fluttering and lifting her high above.

iii
Pygmalion's love for Galatea was not carnal, sexual
or Greek-style. They did not mention war, or a parent's
non-approval. They stood stiffly around in the blue toga

of the day. He polished her eyes in a mirror image 
of his. She gazed back, without end; a woman 
he could never domesticate, covet or ruin. 

Bounty

Bounty
Prose Poetry

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett
A Family Saga

The Ozone Cafe

The Ozone Cafe
White Collar Crime

The Last Asbestos Town

The Last Asbestos Town
Available from Amazon

Evangelyne

Evangelyne
Published by Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne

of Arc & Shadow

of Arc & Shadow
Published by Sunline Press, WA

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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

Helen Hagemann MBA (Wrtg): ECowan

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