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Amulet

Posted on May 5, 2012 by
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Loula S. Rodopoulos

Years pass prise open tomb of migration
Amulet brown roughshod stitched leather
Nestles in palm of aspiration
Flaminia buffeted across seas Piraeus to Fremantle stormy weather

Amulet brown roughshod stitched leather
Loving maternal hands prepared it in sorrow
Flaminia buffeted across seas Piraeus to Fremantle stormy weather
Her son leaves for the antipodes tomorrow

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Emigre

Posted on April 26, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis,
Canada

I held my youth like a knife
sharpened by the sun,
by the smooth sirocco
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The Hill

Posted on April 18, 2012 by
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Translation from the Greek text
 by Manolis Aligizakis

Someone had a lot of dead people
He dug the ground he buried them himself
Stone by stone earth on earth
he built a hill
On top of the hill
he built his cabin facing the sun

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Ο Λόφος

Posted on April 18, 2012 by
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Γιάννης Ρίτσος
Μετάφραση στην Αγγλική
από Μανώλη Αλυγιζάκη

Κάποιος είχε πολλούς πεθαμένους.
Έσκαβε το χώμα, τούς έθαβε μόνος του.
Πέτρα τήν πέτρα, χώμα τό χώμα
έφτιαξε ένα λόφο.
Πάνου στό λόφο
έφτιαξε τήν προσηλιακή καλύβα του.

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Loose ends

Posted on March 29, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

All night long, sleepless
you promised not to cry
to drive to downtown

to the family lawyer
and tie up loose ends

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Betrayal

Posted on March 15, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis
Greek version here

He stood silent next to her.
She cried for the somber hour
lingered indecisively
like the question in her tongue
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Methodical

Posted on March 3, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis,
Canada

He kept his dreams
ambitiously hidden in his heart
placing hope in separate
crystalline vase

along with monotony and at
the time of the longest
shadows he walked

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First Kiss

Posted on February 24, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

Under the scandalous moonlight

her body shone like
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Ecumenical Olympia

Posted on February 21, 2012 by
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Joseph S. Josephides

Ave archon enthroned above, Olympia,
Compete fairly, based on love, Eceheria,
Reform my soul crystal adamant,
Athlete brave, classic dynamism;
Ecumenical my phone.

Citius, altius, fortius, Olympia.

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After the War

Posted on February 11, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

The houses stayed the same
windows firmly shut
always longing for
a hand’s quiver

inside
a widow always lamented

a mother for her son’s death
in the front line

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Grieving

Posted on February 1, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

In your mind
all night long sleepless
promised to go, not to cry

arrange flowers
in plastic vase
fill it with water
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Chestnuts

Posted on January 24, 2012 by
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Loula S. Rodopoulos

chestnuts brood in embers of cynicism
hiss their anger

weeds engulf railway lines
supplanted by unfinished road works
lone cinema hotel closed
denuded shops plastered with yellow For Rents signs
hospital staff unpaid closure rumoured

decaying rural properties entice foreign takeover
austerity measures elderly recall famine
hooded masses protest politicians grovel to EU
youthful gloom lines coffee bars overlooking
the bay of Nafpaktos

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Lives Momentarily Entwined

Posted on January 21, 2012 by
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Loula S. Rodopoulos

lives momentarily entwined

construction of fountain – Harmony Square

Athens hub – celebratory memorial – end of Civil War 1951
brimming escalators link underground railway station

commuters in peak hour crush

roaring motorbikes – cars – buses
ceaseless merry – go – round

scurrying shoppers ignore buskers

beggar squats on footpath
traces her soul in nicotine ash

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Date

Posted on January 19, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

A blind date
is set for you
by fate
to meet your
Death
this morning

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View

Posted on January 4, 2012 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

Panoramic view
through your eastern window

toward the plaza where
the naked statue of Eros Continue reading →

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Four Poems on Verse

Posted on January 1, 2012 by
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TO MY VERSE

You have uttered some nonsense,
to be fair,
a lot of nonsense.

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You Dawn

Posted on December 21, 2011 by
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Ruth Sancho

(From Tayrona National Park. Colombia)

The Tayrona dawns from under your skin,
Through each one of your mango kisses,
With the tingling of your fingertips
walking the subtle paths of pleasure
transporting the green sighs of your freshness.

It dawns within your eyes,
Where the night fireflies are hidden,
From the inner tide of your look
carrying me out
with the swell of your blink
to the deepest bed of a blissful ocean.

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The City

Posted on December 17, 2011 by
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Manolis Aligizakis,
Canada

You said: “I’ll go to another land, to another sea;
I’ll find another city better than this one.
Every effort I make is ill-fated, doomed;
and my heart —like a dead thing—lies buried.

How long will my mind continue to wither like this?
Everywhere I turn my eyes, wherever they happen to fall
I see the black ruins of my life, here
where I’ve squandered, wasted and ruined so many years.”

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Looking for the Sublime

Posted on December 16, 2011 by
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(From Fiordland & Otago Peninsula.
New Zealand. May 2010)

With white howls of winter witches
Riding clouds,
Gossiping frost,
Dressing in silver night’s fiords,
Laughing high pitch of crystal slivers,
Devouring mountains,
Swallowing swamps,
Gurgling long rivers,
Licking Lake sobs,
It floods inside of me.

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Promise

Posted on November 30, 2011 by
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Manolis Aligizakis
Canada

I know it well—he said
that no one will come
to greet me I know it
for the words I spoke
bounced hopelessly off their ears

the children’s innocence
became today’s concern
struggle for a breath of air
how to pay this month’s rent

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Red Wind

Posted on November 21, 2011 by
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From Kings Canyon
Outback. Australia. (Oct 2006)

Ruth Sancho

In the Sacred City of LuritjaMen
The Wind twirls in concentric circles
and it is placated, in its streets, its rocky tail.

The Wind twirls
Twirls the Wind
Twirls.

Drilling the stone,
Aboriginal sediment,
It creates painting caves
where the Myth stays
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Coaxing

Posted on November 14, 2011 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

Anywhere I go I carry him along
that my soles firmly attached
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Listen

Posted on November 10, 2011 by
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Nick N. Trakakis

Her life was so sad that it was almost too beautiful to be true.
- Katherine Hattam

Listen:
this could all be false, I know
the brilliant light in the park
on that Saturday
no promises, not today
stranger things we could not say
but you could see
the hand that held you
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La-Z-Boy

Posted on October 31, 2011 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

Body dives in La-Z-Boy
wine glass in hand and remote
control flickering scenarios

idly looking for
meaning in a football game

or the old movie its trivia
mesmerizing your mind
belly button ready to explode

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Space

Posted on October 21, 2011 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

Whisper
over song silking through
maiden pubic hair
its lust searching for
tender vulva

Whisper
over rhythmic resonance
its kiss of fingers
in their excitable hunt for
youthful consummation

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Daybreak

Posted on October 11, 2011 by
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Manolis Aligizakis

You always get up first
light rustle of bed-sheet
you walk to the bathroom

I stretch my leg to feel your warmth
outline of your missing body
I feel your heartbeat

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Four Poems on Poetry

Posted on October 5, 2011 by
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POETRY

Is there such a word or isn’t it
I will write it anyway
whether there is such a word
I will write it.
I have no choice.

 

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Κάλεσμα λευτεριάς – Call for freedom

Posted on October 4, 2011 by
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(με την ευκαιρία της Ημέρας των Ζώων – 4 Οκτωβρίου)

Ευαγγελία – Αγγελική Πεχλιβανίδου

-Έλα μαζί μας εδώ
στο κάτασπρο βουνό
Ψάξε και βρες τις φωλιές μας
μέσα στα δέντρα.
Τα χνάρια μας δε σβήστηκαν
πάνω στο χιόνι
το απλωμένο στην άγρια φύση
που τα σεβάστηκε.

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Scandalous

Posted on October 1, 2011 by
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Manolis Aligizakis, Canada

He stops shaving razor floating in air
hand absentmindedly creates a circle in mid-void
like a bird stilled by camera lens
her scandalous vulva visits his mind
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A tribute to Costas Montis

Posted on September 26, 2011 by
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Costas Montis, the man and his poetry that touched my life like no other, the undercelebrated and overshadowed Greek-Cypriot poet of the 20th century is hereby offered a minor compensation by Diasporic Literature. So minor that a history of his remembrance should never really mention it. For his memory should remain pure like the words in his verse, unbiased like the letter in his thoughts, benevolent like his love for virtue. Poetry loves a placid existence.

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