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Two times Twenty

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Not a deep feeling did we declare,
nor did we live a great love affair.
Wrong or right,
we only shared a night.

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Published December 12, 2016
Categorised as aa, Country, English, Hellas, Literature, Poetry, Romantic Poetry

The Melancholy of Love

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Love always dwells in melancholy
but oft-times saddens itself even more
from the fear of a loss caused by folly
and of a heart that the Fates forswore.

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Published September 26, 2015
Categorised as aa, English, Hellas, Literature, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Translation, translation

Embalming

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Manolis Aligizakis,
Vancouver

All night long, sleepless
you thought of how to tell
the novice embalmer

to grant him his final wish
to present him with

a faint smile and
an imperceptible yet

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Published June 2, 2012
Categorised as Canada, Country, English, Poetry, Romantic Poetry Tagged amusement, contours, embalming, grieving, novice, sleepless

Emigre

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Manolis Aligizakis,
Canada

I held my youth like a knife
sharpened by the sun,
by the smooth sirocco
and I cut myself in two

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Published April 26, 2012
Categorised as Canada, English, Literature, Poetry, Romantic Poetry Tagged betrayal, emigre, nostalgia, statues, sunset

Loose ends

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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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Published March 29, 2012
Categorised as Canada, English, Literature, Poetry, Romantic Poetry Tagged elation, erection, kingdom, lawyer, loose-ends, sleepless

Methodical

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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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Published March 3, 2012
Categorised as Canada, English, Literature, Poetry, Romantic Poetry Tagged ambitiously, aroma, chapel, cove, crystalline, ferryman, iris, methodical, oregano, shadows

First Kiss

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Manolis Aligizakis

Under the scandalous moonlight

her body shone like
a drenched statue of Aphrodite

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Published February 24, 2012
Categorised as Canada, English, Literature, Poetry, Romantic Poetry Tagged Aphrodite, beauty, body, kisses, moonlight, paradisiacal, scandalous, statue, virginal, whisoer

Grieving

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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
from cemetery fountain

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Published February 1, 2012
Categorised as Canada, English, Poetry, Romantic Poetry Tagged arrange, cemetery, flowers, fountain, grieving, sad, sleepless, story

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