THE LOTOS EATERS!!!

[Caro]

You guys have got to read this - it's awesome. It's a poem of high style inspired by the story of the Lotos-eaters in Homer's Oddessey. Basically this entire crew of sailors meets up with some island people who bear gifts - the flowers of a strange plant. This plant makes them weary, makes them sit their butts right down in the sand, and dream of home, but makes them too lazy to go back there. Lotos! Lotos! What does it remind you of?

READ THE POEM. IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR MIND.

A land where all things always seem'd the same!
And round about the keel with faces pale,
Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,
The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.

Branches they bore of that enchanted stem,
Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave
To each, but whoso did receive of them,
And taste, to him the gushing of the wave
Far far away did seem to mourn and rave
On alien shores; and if his fellow spake,
His voice was thin, as voices from the grave;
And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake,
And music in his ears his beating heart did make.

They sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, "We will return no more";
And all at once they sang, "Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam."

[Weedguru_Fire_Inside]

lol, it's much better to read when it's good to relate to.

[nullztradamus]

I did read the poem, i wouldnt have read it if you didnt say it was good. I have to admit it was very awesome.

A land where all things always seem'd the same!
And round about the keel with faces pale,
Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,
The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.
-very true my lady, it seems to have some similar connections-

forget weed, hook me up with some of this lotos...well maybe not.
~~~puff~~~puff~~~
nullz