Saturday, December 19, 2015

I had the pleasure of reading a scene from my novel with Tony Curtis. He is such a generous man and gave us not only a reading from his several poetry collections but also entertained the OOTA writers (Fremantle) with his guitar compositions, talks about his family, his working life and all with a wonderful Irish sense of humour.
What a wonderful poet and generous man!

When Sometimes all I can Imagine are Hands
 
There is a winter within me,
a place so cold, so covered in snow,
I rarely go there. But sometimes,
when all I can imagine are hands,
when trees in the forest
look like they’re made of wood,
then I know it’s time
to take my photograph of Akhmatova
and sling it in a bag with socks and scarves.
My neighbours must think it strange
to see me strapping on my snowshoes,
to hear me roar at the huskies
as I untangle the harness.
But when all you can imagine are hands
it’s best to give a little wave
and move out into the whiteness. 






 

Wednesday, December 16, 2015



Friendship
            There are names for what binds us - Jane Hirshfield       

There are days that bind us.
We meet as one, but are many.
When we started out we were younger.
Our nails were stronger, our hair
fell down and dovetailed in to curves
matching a lighter weight.
The way a younger self holds firmer flesh,
small triumphs for tanned skin
baked proudly in the sun.
 
There's a name for the battle scars
doctors burn them from our skin
and as we age, gravity's the fear.

When seven women
meet in friendship over years
there may be wounds, a partner gone,
something proud inside one's chest.
But between us all there's only
the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it.



4th Draft  Copyright (c) 2015
Lunch with good friends today. It's a ritual to swap gifts, eat wonderful food and talk for five hours. Many thanks to our host Linda.

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).

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