{"id":106918,"date":"2013-05-18T23:12:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106918\/poem-heras-hero\/"},"modified":"2013-05-18T23:12:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:12:55","slug":"poem-heras-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106918\/poem-heras-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Hera’s Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story poem was written to the featured art on the CPC’s Simple Sunday Picture Challenge<\/a>. <\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The artwork is by Tran Nguyen and is titled “Drowning In A Sea Of Uncertainties.”<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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HERA’S HERO<\/strong><\/font> <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It is the author’s fervent wish
\n this odyssey is just your dish.
\n For it would make him very sad
\n if it should make you Iliad.<\/font><\/p>\n

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***<\/p>\n

In ancient legend Hera’s love
\n shown down on him from up above
\n while brave Odysseus plied his way
\n through threats encountered day by day.<\/p>\n

During his quest her blindness struck.
\n when faced with immortal bad luck.
\n As mad Medusa’s spell was cast,
\n Hera could not see his ship’s mast.<\/p>\n

He on his voyage sallied forth.
\n Her tears rained south as he sailed north,
\n wreaking great havoc on his path.
\n Her hero drenched in sorrow’s bath.<\/p>\n

Hera’s soul knew desolation,
\n until, in love’s desperation,
\n she cast a paper transformation
\n on the surface of the ocean.<\/p>\n

Reaching down from heaven’s gate,
\n Hera grasped firm upon their fate:
\n she tore the paper cover up
\n and pulled to find her loving cup.<\/p>\n

Odysseus was thus tossed out
\n when his ship capsized on its route.
\n A handy lifeboat saved his day,
\n but it kept moving the wrong way.<\/p>\n

When Hera’s godly fingertips
\n felt the goal of her mighty rips,
\n her great heart lept with divine joy
\n and he became the first boy toy.<\/p>\n

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But soon anon she put him back’
\n to ride his tiny questing track
\n on new watercourse untattered.
\n She had discovered that size mattered.<\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright May 18th 2013 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n

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Inspired by “Drowning In A Sea Of Uncertainties” by Tran Nyugen<\/font>
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}