Why 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