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eeyore_grrlThis poem is based on the character Penelope from the Iliad and the Odyssey. Here’s the quick and easy version of events. At least one version.
Helen was gorgeous. She was married to Menelaus, of Sparta. At some part she fell in love/lust with Paris from Troy (some versions say she was a prize from the Gods, but we’re going with she left of her own will and volition here). Odysseus was not a Spartan, he was from Ithaca, but owed some favor or another and his ego was stroked, “it’s foretold we can only win with you...oh you are soooooo awesome.”
Penelope is the wife of Odysseus. She waits at home for him to return while he’s off having epic poem worthy adventures. After many years have passed and her husband doesn’t return she gets harrassed by suitor after suitor who take advantage of her handmaidens and eat all her food and disrespect her son, Telemachus (at least he thinks so). Penelope says she will weaver her father-in-law’s death shroud and when it is done she will choose a suitor. Every night she and her chosen maidens tear out her work.
Odysseus returns.
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Penelope
Helen was not the most beautiful woman in the world
but go tell that to the spartans
they fought for a decade
they lost men and marriages
even though they won the war
Odysseus tries to return home
Penelope waits
Telemachus grows into manhood
day by day they pay the price for a woman
who left
a woman who lusted
day after day they wasted
but go tell that to the Spartans
this is, perhaps, a tale that only tells
that women should stay in their place
live with the love you are given
(screw your own longings and desires)
because women are chattel
and you best not forget it
women should stay where sold
or death and destruction reign
but Helen lived
and Penelope lived to weave her shroud
(her holy task, but tell that to the suitors)
waiting
waiting
waiting
for her husband’s return
cursing all the soldiers for following Menelaus across the God infested waters
the Ithacans lost lives for a woman that was not theirs
and other women paid in
waiting and widowdom
but go tell that to the Spartans
as they drink to women, wine, and win
the women paid
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This was an entry for LJ Idol Exhbit B Week 5. My topic was Go Tell That to the Spartans.
Read more entries at http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/663790.html?nc=32#comments. Will add a voting link when it is available.
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Helen was gorgeous. She was married to Menelaus, of Sparta. At some part she fell in love/lust with Paris from Troy (some versions say she was a prize from the Gods, but we’re going with she left of her own will and volition here). Odysseus was not a Spartan, he was from Ithaca, but owed some favor or another and his ego was stroked, “it’s foretold we can only win with you...oh you are soooooo awesome.”
Penelope is the wife of Odysseus. She waits at home for him to return while he’s off having epic poem worthy adventures. After many years have passed and her husband doesn’t return she gets harrassed by suitor after suitor who take advantage of her handmaidens and eat all her food and disrespect her son, Telemachus (at least he thinks so). Penelope says she will weaver her father-in-law’s death shroud and when it is done she will choose a suitor. Every night she and her chosen maidens tear out her work.
Odysseus returns.
-------
Penelope
Helen was not the most beautiful woman in the world
but go tell that to the spartans
they fought for a decade
they lost men and marriages
even though they won the war
Odysseus tries to return home
Penelope waits
Telemachus grows into manhood
day by day they pay the price for a woman
who left
a woman who lusted
day after day they wasted
but go tell that to the Spartans
this is, perhaps, a tale that only tells
that women should stay in their place
live with the love you are given
(screw your own longings and desires)
because women are chattel
and you best not forget it
women should stay where sold
or death and destruction reign
but Helen lived
and Penelope lived to weave her shroud
(her holy task, but tell that to the suitors)
waiting
waiting
waiting
for her husband’s return
cursing all the soldiers for following Menelaus across the God infested waters
the Ithacans lost lives for a woman that was not theirs
and other women paid in
waiting and widowdom
but go tell that to the Spartans
as they drink to women, wine, and win
the women paid
-----
This was an entry for LJ Idol Exhbit B Week 5. My topic was Go Tell That to the Spartans.
Read more entries at http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/663790.html?nc=32#comments. Will add a voting link when it is available.
VOTE HERE! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/664951.html
