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Knossos Poems - Poems about Knossos


Premium Member 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




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