A weary wine-dark sea, stirred
By our ship’s restless keel and prow
Were it not for a journey deterred
It’d live and die to never be ashore
And sheet itself in a mossy cowl;
And god-tampered soul drawn from the core
Flown by restless winds and pools so whirred
Sunk deep, in the mouth of the quake
And if his soul should the quake-god awake
The sea-laden tongue and disturbed
The sea god, so churn and mouth agape,
Then an intolerable temperance of breakers
We shall soon learn, will shave
With rage,—and rage so uncouth in shape
That hallowed lands and temples flood away;
Those exalted skies of Olympus
That are described on rolls of papyrus
Are now second to the vaulted waves
That curl out an Archean beach, or cape,
And drown those ceremonies we stoutly obey;
Those portent terrors peruse through the night
As the Fates declared through their sight
Is our malicious outcome, if we so come
To show blithe to the lotus-eaters
And succumb to stupor’d merriment
Will this be our journeys sum?
To cower to a rush of breakers
Despite our souls writhing at this contentment?
Those grey, thunderous, maligning clouds
Are deep and grave and loud—but men!
Tread we must, we must tread on them
To cross the borders of a ravenous descent;
We men of bronze, that Zeus has so housed,
That Poised Athena has shown is proud,
For though they have quarried
That our mortal years are ageless and storied,
We are not immortal in years,
We are not immortal in years!
We will be consumed a decade
In insufferable decadence
Men— let loose sweet shackles
And collect our scree of shambles
Steer home where we are loved and honest
Please, please, seize! resist! And spade
Yourselves from your graves, and loathe
Any carrying thought that desists the urge
Of carrying on towards home
About the Creator
Octovo Libra
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And my poetry Hell Is Like A Dog Kennel and other poems
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