sw00893v-OdysseusSongs01

  Re-found these ten circa 1983 pieces yesterday.  Am including
them as a section in Venturings.


Odysseus Songs


Entrance

Part I:  Odysseus
               Remembering
               Singing the Man
               Passages

Part II:  Telemachus
               His Presence
               Preparing to Find Odysseus
               Praying by the Sea

Part III:  Odysseus at Sea
               Trials
               Under the Cyclops
               Interlude


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"Entrance"


Leaving his woman,
his servants, his son,
and his carefully acquired possessions,

Odysseus, to help defend Achaean honor
by rescuing Helen from Priam's Paris,
gathering the warriors of his realm,

sails the unpredictable
waves of times not come
of water and gods and men:
                                       sails to Troy.

But a strong spirit
can live through
any loved one's absence,

feel the winds of sadness
in his bowels,
and still look up;

and clever and wise,
still make his dreams do,
still move out and on and in.





-
Brian A. J. Salchert