Ballad I Poem by Joshua Adeyemi

This is a ballad or a tale:
For ballad is girded in narrative tale.
Of a man whose arm had vindicated,
Alongside his crew, liberated.

He'd gone through rages of the war,
Yet amidst blood stood tall.
And here was the time to sail:
Zeus then had all paled.

The sea had disagreed with their journey:
For they paid her no penny:
She'd said 'These folks seduce me a-much,
And they give no dime: i'll take not such'.

Then she bargain with their breaths- -
Coupled with Poisedon, a kin to death,
Laughed heavily, seduced their deck,
In hours, minutes and sec.

But destruction would not have them,
Thus they pulled the cloak by it's hem.
The bewitched sea vomitted on Polyphemos' home.
Who had their hair roughly combed.

The leader of the mortal took some men with him,
While others at the deck outraged the sea.
The sea seeking a medius
Again to have them stand on her podium.

The leader and the men entered a cave,
Where a mighty dwarf had himself caved.
His subject were far and near,
Perhaps something is amiss, they would be there.

In the cave were many a sheep and rams,
Sleeves of beauty, which lent the eyes seduction harm.
They took the rams in the cave and merrily,
Eight, twelve, fifteen, as many.

But when the cave man arrived his abode,
They in fright all arode.
The man short like a peg,
Rolled a large rock at the cave's mouth without leg.

This had the onlooker amazed,
And in succession was dread adazed.
The dwarf came in and milk his rams,
The sheeps and milk his arms.

Then like a flip of time he noticed them,
And threw a venomous glance at them.
'Mortal? What have I to with you do?
Variant laws binds us two'.

At these the leader reconciled with his courage,
And feed his heart with zeal's pottage.
'Zeus merges two entities,
And would our two, if we find similarities'.

But he, hungry of human flesh,
With his teeth their heart searched.
Other men fled back,
While the care man had his culprit disembered.

The leader sought a thought, for he's in isolation stucked.
No way out: he'd rolled back the rock.
So, they'd to stay amidst their fright,
Till become day was the night.

The feaster then of his meal is done,
3 men gone before the turn of the dawn.
Then, the leader conceived a thought,
After he'd with his muse severally fought:

He would employ the fire, he'd employed,
Sharpenpeg and have his eyes destroyed:
He would pierce the peg dip inside his eyes,
When by sleep, he'd travelled miles.

And so did he,
Had his wish.
The dwarf caught in surprise,
Could not help himself but was surprised.

With a great growl he howled,
And the frightful cave accompanied his howl.
Almost down with what is done,
The dwarf lifted his horn:

'Oh, mortal, what have I with you?
Why art thou art me thus cruel?
If I am asked who had to me done this,
What name of you would say me? '

Then the leader with a dreadful smile,
Had his courage starved:
'Thus my name is asked of this dwarf mighty.
My name is Nahbdy'.

Again, the dwarf did howl,
And his subjects left their abod to the hole.
Then they did asked him what made him growl,
For none can fit his might to open the door and so.

With a brief relieve the cave man elated his glottis,
And loosed his laynrnx borris:
'I'd dwell in my home peacefully.
But see, i'm blinded now by Nahbdy (Nobody) !

And so his subject heaved a sigh of relieve,
And had their glottis too relieved.
'We'll be leaving to outr territory,
Since the cause of your affliction is nobody'.

Whirling time,
Hopping clime.
What one owe not,
One knows not the clue of its knot.

If by heart you owe no truth,
That the stem devour the root.
Be mut if you know not what to say,
Else you'll lead your heart astray.
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