"NIKE AND HER HEAD"
Oh, Nike!* Time though did beheaded you; -
They dies, day new, to break one of your wings: -
"Who's right? who won the Woe-War?"... Not Marce;
And none is to survive in slaves of his...
Who is to win upon th'Achiles' anarchism?**
The Heaven's laissez-fair star-gaze in grass...
But barbar is that not, who goes so far
To ask the Stix 'gainst Islands' neutralism? -
Th'Eagean grasp? - Hell looking for, you are
A little plebe with giant sword, calling for Death!
Hell do perverse not th'light of Lucifer, /// morning star
Where free from cares a Victor drink Love's breath.
Where little wing^ed goddess' skye head
Wedds thoughts of Poet and Atl^et for strength.***
/ 24.04.2015 - 06.05.2014; dacha by S.Posad/
The addnote: *) Nike's name reads like [Нике]. - В оригинале, имя богини Я пишу на Греческом.
**) In this verse I'd like to remind you that of why Achiles a bloodiest hero, but is the only personage amongst all of his friends the athenians, who was honored to be placed on the Eagean Islands after his death: if you remember, he's a one, never looking for the War and the fighting, right from the start; a peacefulest atletic character a nymphan, unlikely to all others, he had no desire and no particular purport for war at all, surely nor like Menelai the revenger, neither like Odysseus the profit searcher; Achiles the Marmedonian King kept the policy of neutralism on his Islands, and this kind of blissfulness I've mentioned to be a part of me-versed vision of a noble Aegenean of the both his past and his future.
**) Pindar in his verse once said: - "And he felt in love with the mind of Patrocles"(said of Achiles). - It is very common to fabricate many a gay and foregay stories about that special relationships between Achiles and his friend. But I call here for the Aristotelean wisdom in my reader, and this way, - even so 'tis the more conservative view of mine, - I've drawn here rather the high privilege of the clean friendship between the two men, and not the sicker side of all the possibly imagined so-called "gay-romance".