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:

Scheme ABC ADDXXX XBACEF EXF XAXXCAA XXXAX AX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,079
Words 186
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 6, 3, 7, 5, 2

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