Saturday, April 4, 2015

HELEN AS HERODOTUS

As Homer saw without seeing Beauty


Human leaves were shorn by Almighty Whim


No one might think otherwise or decay


for why Prometheus was gone away--


his wings molten yet flying nose first then


spiralling downward caught in his hubris


then Agamemnon arose with his Woes


for which no form but Epithet chose


He who laughs louder than all of us - Zeus -


after killing the Gods of his Ancients.


But Helen of course paces as anxious
now being a captive and symbol lust
of Warring as Unadventurous sports
of Slavers, Half-Gods, Cannibals and worse.

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