Glory
During the years he was away from Penelope
Odysseus received quite a number of sexual proposals
from the most beautiful women in Greece.
And as he thanked wholeheartedly
these anonymous Goddesses of Greek temptation
for their silken invitations to passion
Odysseus said that he would respond
as soon as the Universal Community was informed
about the Trojan War.
It had a right to know no matter what
how he went to Troy embodied in the very tempests
not in order to provoke heartache and Catastrophe
but simply to vent the anger of Greece
over its lost honor
saying it had entered the wrong Soul.
The Universal Community however
was informed solely by the Poets
and even then very tardily.
So then Odysseus
the virtuoso mercenary of Glory
ended with the thought
that if he had been truly loved
by the most beautiful women in Greece
he would have emerged from this History
utterly without glory.
From what can be seen
this story would always be defined
by the Poets alone
and these Erotic tales would simply
be called poetic.
The Universal Community
would deem them unbelievable.
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Submitted on January 10, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,079 |
Words | 186 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 6, 3, 7, 5, 2 |
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