HOMERIC

 

                                                                                     

 

Homeric

 

Not wine dark but black, as black as mercury.

Or rather leaden in colour and weight,

And mercurial, the Waters already Covid-

Washed, the collective mind’s submarine.

 

The Sea of Azov and the Bosphorous

Both resonate with the Crimea, ancient

Names evoking history and deeds heroic,

Desperate and utterly foolish!

 

On the borders of Ukraine, the great

Garden basket, the fields of wheat and other

Bounty are now planted firmly with the

 

Unnatural spring crop of the armed bodies

Of men standing facing one another;

 And the sea before them is not wine dark, but Black!

( 21/04/2021)