{"id":7195,"date":"2020-09-28T09:50:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/?page_id=7195"},"modified":"2020-11-14T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T13:36:38","slug":"as-a-beautiful-dead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/as-a-beautiful-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"As a beautiful dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memory is awakening, I told you.<br>\nRemember<br>\nRemember me.<br>\nWhen I saw you wearing it tight<br>\nfreshly dug<br>\nTo become one with it, like<br>\nA new destiny<br>\nAll my days fought<br>\nWith the Impossible, and you<br>\nWere standing sacred<br>\nOn the ever flowing Heaven\u2019s<br>\nSide<br>\nThat is how, they say, soul unfolds<br>\nThe ancient charriot<br>\nAnd through irises and mountain harebells<br>\nThrough white sea breezes<br>\nOf another world<br>\nTook you where the vows of those who love<br>\nBecome angels<br>\nand the water speaks<br>\nwater like pearls, stand up high,<br>\non mountains older than Time itself.<br>\nRemember me!<\/p>\n<p>Christmas 2019<br>\nOf the first Eucharist<\/p>\n<p>I wrote:&nbsp; &#8220;Poetry has always been for me the raw material of my books, the metaphysical element of my vision. I had written this in Paths of my Angel, which were pages of diaries that I have kept for a lifetime. And I had even written that &#8220;poetry is the primordial material of lost memory, or else, the treading of the soul in the abyss&#8221;. Half a century later, I mean the same thing. And more: \u201cWe are creatures incomplete, creatures, of deprivation. Our desire to transcend is deprivation, or else the pain for our incomplete self. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From the collection of poetry &#8220;As a beautiful dead&#8221;, 2019<\/strong><\/em><br>\n<em><strong>The first poem.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/book\/%cf%89%cf%82-%cf%89%cf%81%ce%b1%ce%af%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%bd%ce%ad%ce%ba%cf%85%cf%82\/\">Connection to the book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory is awakening, I told you. Remember Remember me. When I saw you wearing it tight freshly dug To become one with it, like A new destiny All my days fought With the Impossible, and you Were standing sacred On the ever flowing Heaven\u2019s Side That is how, they say, soul unfolds The ancient charriot [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7549,"href":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7195\/revisions\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialampadaridoupothou.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}