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Knossos Poems - Poems about Knossos


Premium MemberWhy What Reason Have I

...Often times I wonder if I may have missed 
a greater calling or purpose in my life.
As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical
when it came to asking the most important questions:
“Why am I ...
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Categories: knossos, allusion, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Menelaus

...Eyes, in such a way, that some strange virture, some everlasting release
Was imparted to he. A strange bargain indeed; to resist the gods and to please
Satan in his rebellioin from all that was nat...
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Categories: knossos, angel, anger, aubade, bird,
Form: Ekphrasis



Kalihta

...Put your fingers into kalihi*,
Kalihta.

There is nothing there.
But it is so beautiful.
Your fingers – kalihi…
A fresco.
It remained of ???ss??**
in a boundless sea.

And my eyes.

*a ki...
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Categories: knossos, love, sea,
Form: Free verse

Knossos At Night

...Dark landscape
Moon-lit ruins 
Guitars sing to you 

Kallístei, 
Hos en álloi kósmoi* 

The temple rises
Saffron on the cliffs 
Aphrodite stands
On the waves 





*For the most beautiful; as if in a...
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Categories: knossos, nature,
Form: Free verse

Prevelli Ravine ( Crete 1992 )

...Prevelli Ravine ( Crete 1992 )



Ghost song
The ancient priest left in the monastery stone
Long before my encounter
Within the walls repeat their long labour
Monument and missionary linger
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Categories: knossos, mystery, placeswater, water,
Form: Free verse




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