This summer
This summer
I want the gold of the sun
to burn inside my palms
melted like an old vow
To breathe in the pine needles in your body
as it was
when the moon was rolling in the moss
fragments of a life washed away by the wave
And holding all my paths in my arms to reach
where the dream ends
where the knowledge begins.This summer I want to become a enormous Word
like a road that reaches the stars
and shines
a word with three syllables or even four
to contain all the others - like sea or I come!
As I shine
Summer leaves and takes me with it
who knows where..,
For the summer of the corona virus, 2020
Posted on facebook, August
2021 rising
History doesn't teach
και ούτε τα λάθη της Ιαστορίας”
only consciousness can teach
To carry all the blood the cry the mourning
and with footsteps of time
from Ipsilanti and Androutsos and the anonymous
So that they kneel before you those
who loved you deeply
who betrayed you
who glorified you while you were tortured
So you can stand upright ageless and sullen
your youth renovated like an eagle's by
the oaths of the dead
And the Great Day blossoming with Jasmine
Basil and marjoram from Despo's garden
And Time upright beside you
to salute your march from the deep
darkness of slavery
And Papaflessa's charge like raging
wind to bring the cry of the Mother
carrying her newborn dead still on her nipple
and the wailing, Oh, the wailing of the eagles
Bring all these and silence so much silence
so they can be heard!
Because we've had enough of festivities.
And don't ask, Oh, don't ask about the brave ones
those who sacrificed their life
And those who were stabbed on the back
Only the oaths remember
- so they can feel pain, Oh, to feel the pain!
And after, embrace them with affection
speak to them again of love and oaths
that have no price
they will understand.
As for the scene - bring the nights
with those standing guard in the alleys
children laying dead in the backstreets
Bring some of your rivers
with their waters risen against oblivion
to quench the thirst of the hunted
Bring the galloping from the horsemen
the moment they charged like freedom
so that the sound will be alive
for this Holy Day that rises.
Bring the sleepless Souls
with the blood on their hands still alive - never
will the blood of the martyr die
Bring some visions that were never realised
dreams that became darkness and wound
and with all your memories in your arms
with those abandoned expectations
And with Kapodistrias holding the sign - blood
flowing between his bitter eyes:
"Hellas: 2021!"
And don't ask, oh, don't ask - who
let the blood flow
you must remember Marina
Only remember.
Written for the Hellenic authors' society collective theme: "Wishes for 2021"
Hear me...
And not having earth to stand
I become a poem
You said you do not want to be a Number
You do not want to be just the spirit
But the "hidden harmony"
the nameless becoming of the world
that purifies with pain
And when you determined the commands of chaos
and defined the Justice
awake for thousands of years in the heart of darkness
για να ποιήσεις το Φως και την ‘Ωρα την Πρώτη
you said, you exist now
I exist
a drop of life from your blood - the one
you called blood of sacrifice
blood or spring water from the first intangible hour
Γι’ αυτό, άκουσέ με
I am the drop of water I the one who is initiated
to the raw memories of my path
watery passages inside me
From the sanskrit asFu of my soul
that carries the memory of chaos
to my pearly Angel with the unsoiled cloth
that turned memory into awakening
and fought with The Dark One
fought in the asphodel dank and mouldy fields of Homer
To defeat him with his music
Music will abolish the untrodden, he said
To defeat him with the intangible light
Memory is awakening, he cried
"And I will shine on the dead!"
Hear me,
I am the drop of water - water or blood
that contains all the rivers and the tides of creation
memories from the genesis of the world
And even if I wander now
even if I wander now, like a field in despair
I wander
by your command
in the miasma you sent
I wander now with my hands tied behind my back
and my face scorched from your lightning
I wander now, I wander
I slept so deeply during my time on earth
that I forgot you
Your bright command was so heavy
that I forgot
But only a moment of purity is enough
to make all tears bloom
to vindicate time
to vindicate me
to find my old peaceful sky
Άκουσε με,
Whatever you wanted to tell me
το ‘νιωσα με το άγριο πέρασμα σου
This hour that the tides change
and the whole world as a wild animal in a trap
This is the hour when The Dark One walks
in thousands of roads - spreading death
And the fear solid and inaccessible
inside the houses
My voice as a voice of multitude of waters from the years of Job
"I cry to you
and you don't respond
Hear me, I beg of you, he said
why do you sleep?"
A trivial speck of intellect
inside a bulk of silence
μ’ ένα κερί μόνο στο χέρι
lit
to shine on the endless night
Hear me,
on her shoulder mother lifted Hades
as if she called her son back from the dead
and became the seven string lyre of Orpheus
to determine the commands of chaos anew
to reach the intangible secret of darkness
that obscures your Light.
Listen, finally, hear me
I pray upon the wounds you have inflicted on me
And I know that they are
my way to You.
Γράφτηκε τον Μάρτιο του 2020, στις μέρες του κορωναϊού
Σύνδεσμος στο ενορχηστρωμένο ποίημα
Ο προαιώνιος οβολός
Από καιρό ξέσκεπες οι νύχτες μου
διαφανείς
να συνορεύουν με το πέραν
Κι εγώ να κοιτάζω την άλλη όψη των πραγμάτων
με τα φλούα φλαφς των νερών άγνωστων
κάτω από τον ύπνο μου
Να αφουγκράζομαι τις κινήσεις του Αόρατου
Ξέμεινα να σηκώνω στον ώμο μου
τον προαιώνιο οβολό
να λυγίζει ο δρόμος μου από το βάρος του
Όλα μου τα υπάρχοντα ένας αρχαίος αγερμός
που ξέμεινε από τα ιερά μυστήρια
και ο φόβος
μη βρεθώ χωρίς νόμισμα στην άκρη των νερών – όπου
ο σκοτεινός βαρκάρης με το μυτερό πλεούμενο
Μια ζωή δούλεψα να αποκτήσω την περιουσία αυτή
να τη φυλάξω πάνω στη ράχη του χρόνου
Και τώρα γέρνω από το βάρος της – καθώς
την περιφέρω ανάμεσα στα τιμαλφή μου
σαν βεβαιότητα αρχέγονη
κομμάτι αδέσποτο των μυστηρίων
Τόσο μάταιη οδοιπορία
με τα κέλευθα τα ασφοδελά κάτω
απ’ τις νύχτες μου
κι ένας τεράστιος οβελίσκος obulus
σαν μυθική αμοιβή
για το νερένιο μονοπάτι της ομίχλης.
Γράφτηκε τον Νοέμβριο 2020, με συλλογική θεματική “ο χρόνος είναι χρήμα είναι χρέος” για το περιοδικό δε κατα
The poet writes history
Nobody knew his heart
For two centuries it cries inside the stone
and upon it Time carves the story of the world
the letters fading
getting angrier
And in the nights of desolate moonlight
comes the Rider
his eyes gusts of windέρχεται μ’ ένα κοντύλι στο χέρι
to write the poem he could not complete
but the blood is freshWhere are you Sons of Roumeli?
Did you also name Freedom your hotels?I want to reach the glade
read more
to walk with you
where the Memory is still sacred
iluminating forests and mountains at nights
When the dead walk alone
standing godforsaken clutching their silver
because their weapons are sleeping in the museums
and wisper words of a freedom
that has faded over time.I cannot bare this History
with the shameful coin in hand
I cannot bare History written with coin
I am the Poet
I gave my heart to the Idea
and heart is what I seekWhere are you brothers in arms of Roumeli and Morias
I want to walk with you
to the highest peaks
for the whole world to witness
that the Souls grew taller with time
that they are not dead damn it
we never died
And maybe it is time we rewrite History
απ’ την αρχή.And so the Poet alone
with his bare hand against the times
is the truth outside of History
where only the Souls are vigilant
Proud.And if you happen to be on a moonlit night
to the land of Roumeli
you can hear footsteps and incoherent words
the way that only the Poet
the tongue of mountains and gods
the tongue of lightning
and of blood can speak
of the truth left outside of mortals' timeBecause the Poet writes the story of the world
Μάης 2019. Το ποίημα γράφτηκε για το Ημερολόγιο της Εταιρείας Συγγραφέων