Harlequins of Silence
The pallid harlequin first of all
Greets the spectators with good cheer [...]
The dwarf with dim eyes
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The Harbor of Arrival
You always the harbor and I the light to the right.
The wet quay and the
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Silent Witness of the Light
The marble head in my hands
exhausts my elbows and I do not know where
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Travelling the Open Sea
What are they looking for, our souls, travelling
on the decks of ruined ships
crowded with sallow
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A Day Will Come
A day will come when we will have nothing left to say.
We will sit opposite
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The Eternal Moment
All is lost. Everyone’s time comes.
All remains. I leave. You see if you can manage
with the
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The Children of Summer
Child with the scratched knee
cropped head uncut dream
pinafore with crossed anchors.
Arm of the pine tree
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In the Shadow of the Temple
Between the blue of the sea
and the blue of the sky
there is always
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Parallel Lives
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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On the Road to Adventure
They took the road, moving slowly because the horses could go no faster, and
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The Light That Remains
People pass away,
yet the paths they walked do not die
and their silence is filled with
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Strings of the Night
The guitars were playing
and in the middle of the night
our sighs came out
like birds flying.
Manikos
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Beneath the Flag of Friendship
A beautiful and strange homeland,
such as was given to me, I have never seen.
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She
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The Sea Clover
Come on, come on, children,
let us scatter the cloudiness away.
The prow cuts through the waters
and the
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Before the Caryatids
Before the Caryatids, the marble maidens,
we stood admiring, the two of us, for hours and hours.
Still,
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Whispers in the Dark
A tiny glow
in the middle of the night
is enough to warm
the silences of the world."
Tasos
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Steps on Marble Alleyways
I walk through the narrow alleyways
and each door holds inside
an old story waiting
for you to
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On the Sun's Wave
The dog is the only love that money can buy.
Odysseas Elytis, Private Road, (Athens: Ypsilon,
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Diving into Freedom
They jump into the waves,
laugh, play upon the rafts
and the sea celebrates with them."
Ioannis Polemis, "The
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The Little Magician of Music
Come out, come out, little magician
tap, tap the wand
do and re and mi and
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The Birth of Light
Deep dawn. The light breaks,
shredding the darkness with golden threads,
and the earth breathes, awakening
from the
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Choreography of Innocence
The child laughs,
opens its arms wide
and holds the entire sky.
Yannis Ritsos, Games of Sky and Water
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In the Midday Shade
Beneath the shade,
the sea breathes quietly
and time stands still
in the white light of summer."
George Seferis,
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In the Amber Light of Balance
When the sunset paints the sea golden,
figures turn into shadows
travelling upon the calm
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Innocence by the Shore
Children playing on the silvery shore,
unaware that upon the wave they build
the most beautiful corner
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Silence for Two
To be by the sea
with someone you love
is another way
of speaking without saying words
Tasos Leivaditis, The
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Soft Steps of Summer
Many days passed, soft as a dream,
on that sandy shore
where figures became light
and the sea
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Expectation by the Shore
"You cast your fishing line into the water
not to catch fish,
but to hold on to
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In the Village Square of Bougainvillea
As I passed by the village square
I saw violins playing,
the young men and
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The Night That Belongs to Us
Standing there like that in the darkness
listening to the voice rise,
we knew that
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