Doodle Talk

Homer’s Sons

I bow before the greatest ones

Not Homer but his only sons

Iliad and Odyssey, Homer wrote

Words from the heart, his sons quote

Homer spoke of how Odysseus fled

And Penelope weaved to never wed

But Homer’s sons told women to bore

The pain when men left and shut the door

Trojan wars made Andromache a widow

The fall of Troy made Achilles a hero

But Homer’s sons gave men the key

to open our minds for them to see

If Herodotus read this poem he’d spill

“My dear Hans I know of Homer and not his fils

Why if Homer’s sons did the things you say

To the world their works I’d readily convey”

Now you think this poems of no use

Homer had no sons and the poet’s screw is loose

But I’ll stand my ground and respond to the hue

Milton , Keats, Wilde are just a few

By Hans Albert Lewis

Note:

Homer is regarded as the great epic poet at the dawn of civilisation in Europe around 850 BC Greece. Though there are speculations made whether he really existed or if there were not one but many people who wrote under the name Homer.

Speculations aside, Iliad and Odyssey were two of this Homer’s greatest works

Odysseus was the protagonist of ‘Odyssey’, who wandered for 10 years while returning from Troy. During that time, Penelope (his wife) weaved on a tapestry so she could keep suitors at bay.

In Iliad, Andromache is the widow of Hector,chief defender of Troy who was killed in the Trojan wars between Troys and the Greeks. Achilles led the Greek army and won against the Troys

Herodotus was a Greek Historian 400 years later.