POEM: Hera’s Hero
This story poem was written to the featured art on the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge.
The artwork is by Tran Nguyen and is titled “Drowning In A Sea Of Uncertainties.”
HERA’S HERO
It is the author’s fervent wish
this odyssey is just your dish.
For it would make him very sad
if it should make you Iliad.
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In ancient legend Hera’s love
shown down on him from up above
while brave Odysseus plied his way
through threats encountered day by day.
During his quest her blindness struck.
when faced with immortal bad luck.
As mad Medusa’s spell was cast,
Hera could not see his ship’s mast.
He on his voyage sallied forth.
Her tears rained south as he sailed north,
wreaking great havoc on his path.
Her hero drenched in sorrow’s bath.
Hera’s soul knew desolation,
until, in love’s desperation,
she cast a paper transformation
on the surface of the ocean.
Reaching down from heaven’s gate,
Hera grasped firm upon their fate:
she tore the paper cover up
and pulled to find her loving cup.
Odysseus was thus tossed out
when his ship capsized on its route.
A handy lifeboat saved his day,
but it kept moving the wrong way.
When Hera’s godly fingertips
felt the goal of her mighty rips,
her great heart lept with divine joy
and he became the first boy toy.
But soon anon she put him back’
to ride his tiny questing track
on new watercourse untattered.
She had discovered that size mattered.
Copyright May 18th 2013 RGD
Inspired by “Drowning In A Sea Of Uncertainties” by Tran Nyugen