After the siege of Troy and a decade-long voyage, a king is ready to come home to his kingdom and to his queen...
I hear your voice call for my soul
and carry me to Ithaca's doors!
Can echoes from you divinely toll,
commanding me onto bright shores
like sacred gods that read from a scroll?
I sail the seas and wander afar,
from you and from all that we've known;
and with only the bright North Star
to safely guide me through wind-blown
waves, I now cruise with the polestar
to at last return all alone.
Heaven and earth, and all marine,
no longer can more divide us;
and even the gods' wrathful spleen
cannot impede my victorious
journey to you, Penelope my queen,
whose heart is legend and glorious!
Poetry by Ngoc Nguyen
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Written on 2020-07-08 at 16:51
Tags Mythology Odysseus Penelope
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Odysseus in Contemplation of His Homecoming to Ithaca and Reunion with Queen Penelope
Far away from these antique moors,I hear your voice call for my soul
and carry me to Ithaca's doors!
Can echoes from you divinely toll,
commanding me onto bright shores
like sacred gods that read from a scroll?
I sail the seas and wander afar,
from you and from all that we've known;
and with only the bright North Star
to safely guide me through wind-blown
waves, I now cruise with the polestar
to at last return all alone.
Heaven and earth, and all marine,
no longer can more divide us;
and even the gods' wrathful spleen
cannot impede my victorious
journey to you, Penelope my queen,
whose heart is legend and glorious!
Poetry by Ngoc Nguyen
Read 397 times
Written on 2020-07-08 at 16:51
Tags Mythology Odysseus Penelope
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