Page 1 the Lotus Eaters

The Lotus Eaters page 1 of 2 (This is an original fiction by Earl based on the fiction by Homer. Part 2 of this is in a 2nd. posting) Northern unkind gales forced, with no care to man or nature The cunning, the brave, the great King Odysseus and his crew to draw off course From Ithica, their home and one true destination A strange land happened upon them by fate and chance Appeared from nowhere, but did enchant them one and all We’ve come to learn this is the Isle Lotophagi. Glorious scented lotus fields rolled up, waving against moving vast hills Winds gave them life over flowing there With majestic summer’s heated wilds Holding the world intact Boulders lined up as giants against the ancient unencumbered breathing skies Virgins in yellow and pink silk, filled in the silence of morn with vigilance While gathering sweet cold water in fragile jugs along the foreign stream Within the golden landscape scene the lotus eaters lived In tender innocence, no cares in the world, or of their fate awaiting Hectic red steadfast on earth this day as sun rose stronger than venues of time But not too late To mold the landscape in its style in brightness that takes the sight of man to shelter The cunning Odysseus, and his men are hungry, tired, worn of war and lust for water from that shore Before they sail to Ithica with furor to their missions end Determined one and all They must rest, take in splendors of this world and learn their love and lore The king and sailors did much more. The lotus eaters, as they’re called