Book Five

At

Post game

Refreshments,

Connecticut

Players recognised

New York's, members of the

Same, border line country club.



Fight

Paused, dead

Bodies burned,

Greeks raised walls, dug

Trenches, Poseidon

Objected, Zeus agreed,

All traces would be removed.



Greek

Goddess

Figured, league

Trophy won by

Prep school football team

With year's best overall

Statistics: wins; losses; size.



School's 

Soccer

Match a loss,

Veteran team 

Members had chosen 

To dump sport by hyped, new

Program, and facilities.



Zeus

Forbade

God, goddess

Interventions,

Seated on Ida,

Weighed fates of Achaians,

Trojans, at war resumption. 



School

Trophy

Snatched by league 

Rival last year

At homecoming, new 

Coach, players, quarterback,

Factored in revised game plan. 



Last

Year's doomed,

Team lineup,

Blamed for trophy 

Loss, demoted to

Second-string bench, soccer

Standouts welcomed in lineup.



Zeus

Thundered,

Flashed lightening,

Hektor attacked,

Hera, Athena 

Dressed for fight, sent back to

Olympus, mortals' fates sealed. 



His

Star-crossed

Center, guards,

Scrutinized, left

Suited up to sit 

Tight- except for practice-

While course of game unfolded.



Fresh

Players

Mesmerized

By war tactics

Embedded in plays,

Masterful maneuvers

Strategised on gym chalkboard.



Mad

Driven,

Admitted

Agamemnon,

Group with pledges sworn

By him sent with hopes to 

Appease Achilles' anger.



He

Offered,

Through soccer

Coach, guarantee

Of actual game 

Time participation 

To sidelined, football converts.



Punched

Balls, hard

Tackles, (post

Whistle), during

Practice vented the

Frustrations of back bench

With the fresh blood infusion.



Found

Strumming

His lyre,

Achilles sang,

Patroklos listened,

Greeted guests, prepared, served

Feast, considered their offer.



Two

Boys glued,

One, tongue tied,

Spoke through other,

Former school classmates

Now roommates, split Fall sports

Between soccer, and football.



Bare

Chested,

Cross country

Boys streaked, above

Conscripts locked inside

Chalked lines, along dirt paths

Carved by local hunt riders. 



Still

Angered,

Dishonoured,

Achilles spurned

Agamemnon's gifts,

Wouldn't rejoin battle 

Until Hektor breached the ships.



Sixth

Formers

Used secret

Ballot to choose 

School's head boy, allowed

To act behind scenes, peer

Marked absences disappeared.




{18 stanzas/page}

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