Book Five

At

Post game 

Refreshments,

Both teams' players

Had acknowledged the 

Faces familiar from 

Connecticut, New York clubs.


Fight

Paused, piled

Corpses burned,

Greeks erected

Walls, dug deep trenches

To protect their ships, Zeus

Heard Poseidon's objections.


God,

Hermes,

Engraved on

Prep league trophy,

Won by football team

From small school with season's 

Best win/loss/draw statistics.


Old

Center,

Guards had been 

Suiting up to 

Sit tight, except for 

Week's practice scrimmages

Against quarterback's starters.


Zeus,

Seated

On Ida,

Forbade goddess,

God interventions,

Weighed fate of Achaians,

Trojans, at war resumption.


Last

Year, league

Rival had

Snatched trophy from 

School's varsity squad,

Revenge strategised by

Then prefects after lights out.


Head

Of school 

Athletics

Funneled furloughed 

Players onto the 

J.V. division, led

By former varsity coach.


Zeus 

Thundered,

Flashed lightening,

Hektor attacked;

Hera, Athena, 

Dressed for fight, sent back to 

Olympus, mortals' fates sealed.


New

Boys kept

Self-contained,

Strengths untested,

Most faced peer pressure

To try out for football, 

Fall back, soccer, cross country.


Fresh

Players

Mesmerised

By war tactics

Embedded in plays,

Masterful maneuvers 

Diagrammed on gym chalkboard.


Mad

Driven,

Admitted

Agamemnon,

Select, with pledges

Sworn by him, sent with hope 

To appease Achilles' stance.


Coach

Dangled

Guaranteed 

Playing time on

Varsity soccer 

To disgruntled, sidelined

Boys, hoping to bolster sport.


Slammed

Balls, post

Whistle hard

Tackles during 

Practice vented the

Frustrations of back bench

With second string ascension.


Honed

Lyrics,

Strummed lyre,

Achilles' songs

Rhapsodised heroes;

Patroklos greeted guests,

Grilled food, considered offer.


Dropped,

Marquee

Quarterback,

Wide receiver:

Two boys glued, latter

Tongue tied, gestured, former

Spoke for both, sixth form roommates.


Bare

Chested,

Carefree, cross

Country runners

Headed out, terrain

Familiar, one of them 

Setting pace to finish line.


Still 

Angered,

Dishonoured,

Achilles spurned

Agamemnon's gifts,

Wouldn't rejoin battle 

Until Hektor breached the ships.


Two

Boys used

Field in view

Of teams, nothing 

To prove in practice,

Each one gave the other 

Enough to fairly challenge.

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