1. Achilles/Beckham

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate des Vereinigten Köngreichs, hat anlässlich der Verletzung des englischen Fußballspielers David Beckham das folgende Gedicht verfasst:

Achilles

Myth’s river – where his mother
dipped him, fished him, a
slippery golden boy flowed on,
his name on its lips.

Without him, it was prophesied,
they would not take Troy.

Women hid him, concealed him
in girls’ sarongs; days of
sweetmeats, spices, silver songs …

But when Odysseus came, with an
athlete’s build, a sword and a shield,
he followed him to the battlefield,
the crowd’s roar,

And it was sport, not war,
his charmed foot on the ball …

But then his heel, his heel, his heel …

Quelle: BBC News online vom 16. März http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8570282.stm

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