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Robert L. Martin

Helene of Hades

There were Helene of Hades and Helen of Troy.
Helene was the evil one born from the sea,
and Beautiful Helen, born in Homer’s Iliad
to her father Zeus, the king of the gods
and Leda the queen of Sparta.
Both were historically influential.
 
Helene of Hades, the evil one
was born of the sea
of lazy rollings and poetic rhythms,
nurtured by the Winds of Stygian
and their colossal fans and the
late summer furnaces that heated up
the waters in response to the Devil’s
commands, the Conquistador of the seas,
in eagerness to stake his claim on
land and sea and inside the spirit of man
as he wreaked havoc upon
the Great Atlantic Ocean,
the Gulf of Mexico, and
some southern states of America.
 
Beautiful and deadly Helene with her
pastel colored skirts swirling around
the calm of her eye, riling up
the waters with her malefic breath,
played with the ships and sent her
waves over the decks in her acts
of demolition while laughing as they
rolled over and sunk deep down
into the darkness of Davy Jones’s Locker.
 
Then she headed to the shore
with her skirts swirling round and round
at a furious pace, watching the people
running for their lives as she headed
inland to see how many more lives
she could take,
gathering them up for her trophies
to bring home and show her father,
the prince of darkness and
make him proud of her
for her deeds accomplished.

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