Notes About The Poem
Having composed on Jupiter the planet, my sense of symmetry wanted a poem on Jupiter the god. For a discussion of the stanza form see Jupiter - The Planet.
Jupiter - The God
Once was a time when every hill he held,
When temples there proclaimed his rule divine;
Once was a time when every foe he felled,
When Jove's bright standard led the Roman line.
By thunderbolts his anger seen,
Backed by might and vision keen.
Well known that king of gods was worst of men,
For gods as men from strength do oft grow base;
Left lofty thought, to beast converted when
Pulled down by flesh, his virtue left no trace.
So thus the mortal mixed with god,
Good with evil, fair with odd.
Rome on fair Tiber’s banks was built on law,
For of stern reason were laid down its ways;
Of order, more than sword, arose its awe:
This is the bloom of bright Jupiter’s rays.
The thoughts divine, the troubled heart,
Forged from beast was reason’s start.
Long since to dust and tours gone temple sites,
These things of stone that fell to bitter time;
But yet his guiding hand our pathway lights:
Therein a legacy endures past crime.
He taught so much, when ruled the sky;
Final lesson, how to die.
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