OTI:two poems and notes:9/12/16

Open To Interpretation

Sometimes

Sometimes
I leave the guided tour
Which I shouldn't do
There's safety in numbers
But on occasion
A glimpse of you reflected
In the museums' glass
Exhibit cases
Gives me pause
And I lag behind.

Zeus

chorus
Today,
We gaze from the overlook
On Mt. Olympus,
Our town distant below,
Muted brown and blue and grey,
Indistinct in this summer haze.
We could jump off
But the palace glass
Is between us and escape.
While our hands and feet are free,
Invisible bindings join us.
The gods have enjoined us,
Just the twelve of us
They trust
Rather than themselves
To sit in judgement
While they opinion Zeus.

What's your problem?
Zeus is always on trial...
And he always gets off...
He's  Zeus!

I hear we're to judge
Zeus' new law,
'Women can do no wrong.'
They need a law?
Ha... nothing changes.

Zeus in chains?
How can that be?
It's a physical impossibility.
Nothing physical about it,
Here there's no reality.

Six boys
Six girls
We'll be deadlocked
For eternity.

And Zeus is weeping
And making no defense
His sorrow in keeping
With his offense.

Do tell?
He did that?
Well,
If I was Zeus...
If you were Zeus
This would be hell.

Hades is coming to watch,
And all his gifts
Confiscated from us.

The gallery will be full,
Achilles and his entourage
Are coming too,
For this,
Shade will brave sunlight.

The dead are dead.
Their judgments written in stone.
We slender twelve alone
Alive will be read.

Time to return?
Pardon me while I linger,
Far below there,
Tiny to see,
My wife and family
On the road home.

Judge Zeus?
Zeus will judge us!
We'll be safe enough
They tell us,
"Just be careful."

Wave to them
From Olympus' heights,
Imagine what you will,
In this judgement hall
The doors close now,
We take out seats
And Truth's fate meet.

Fluffier!?
Yes,
I'd rather my crepes
Not resemble the plate.
I'll take fluffier anytime,
And this seat debilitates.

So proud...
Take your seat...
So what if next door
Are a tattoo parlor
And a donut shop.
Homer is on vellum
And donuts have holes.


prosecution
By Zeus' decree
Women have been set free
From judgement's fees,
No longer responsible
For anything possible
They can do what they wish,
And just so
Artemis stole
Cupid's arrows and bow
To Aphrodite's sorrow,
And Love is now hidden
From Zeus even!
The law gives Artemis denial,
Not Zeus.
His law,
His own flaw.
Aphrodite brings this trial.

defense
Truth has no bounds
You cannot untrue true,
Nor unlaw law.
Zeus endures this trial only
To make free again what
Artemis has hidden.
By his license,
Artemis' pretense,
She gives full reign to Chastity
And makes unlawful Love,
Not by Zeus' law
But by her jealousy
Of Aphrodite.
Innocent in your judgement,
Zeus will then demand
Cupid's arrows and bow
From Artemis' hands,
And returned to Cupid
There will be Love again
Above and below.

prosecution
Without retribution
Women now command
The starry heaven.
The humblest girl
Can give sitting
On Zeus' throne a whirl.
It was a silly law,
Zeus must have been
Drunk to think of it.
We all suffer now
The sober consequence.
No matter
That law once made
Can't be unmade.
So crimes once done
Can't be undone.
Done is done.
Move forward,
Punishment is the only course
And Zeus force
To regress...
Let Hades take his place
And Love restore...

to be continued

DolphinWords

Notes:...Sometimes...sometimes, I just go off...left off to go see a bit of the Rams and 49'rs...remarkable that one fellow has meme tagged everyone standing, seated, kneeling, hands raised, and such!...Mt. Olympus...reference the Ronald Reagan Federal Building, our local one...there's more than one!...it is architecturally gorgeous, and the view form the tenth floor a must sometime see...my last gathering in the high school gym, this was 1966, while everyone stood, one fellow sat...took note, it was a shrug...then...later they lay flat at Kent State...

:)

DavidDavid