Day: June 11, 2023

Tasos Livaditis – Poems, Volume II

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Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards

2023 Longlist Announcement
End of an Era
 
 
      Her hat was so funny that someone could write an
exciting story about it, “Mrs. Remoundou” she introduced
herself, “wife of a bankrupt husband.” Since then she
comes often, hugs my mother and they cry; “there was
always a house in our sleep” mother said, “Yes” the other
said “but firstly one has to sleep” and I, to entertain them
and make them laugh, as night fell, turned myself into
a lamppost where man of my era will one day come,
in full attire, to hang himself.
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Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume III

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Childhood Memory

During the summer siesta when the adults sleep, a bucket

of water tumbles down the stairway onto the hallway tiles.

At that moment, and under the hallway, at the same spot

where the bucket emptied, a fresh, forgotten for years,

storage room appears. Birds with their violins roost in there,

the linen kerchiefs, starched napkins of old tidiness,

two broken chairs, a basket of grapes, a pair of red

sandals, a high glass, the chalk, the school bell, the young

woodworker who saws the big stairway of the cicada.

Soon a light breeze starts blowing from in there wrinkling

part of the sea and the forehead of poetry with that

neglected, funny, childish frowning.   

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