Twelve Narratives of the Gypsy

They are the teachers of truth

believers of the wholesome beauty

old men, pure, forever young

suns given to you to enjoy

in the freshness of an April

the Immortal and the Beautiful.

From the shores of Ionia

and from the air of Athens

which creates pneuma as it likes

from the holy grounds of Hellas

Wisdom, Logos, Rhythm

the Immortal and the Beautiful.


And there is Plato and behind him

heroes of Ideas, the philosophers

I’m with them, Grace says,

and there is Homer and behind him

all the hymnists, Olympian creators

the Immortal and the Beautiful.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3LP7NW6

Neo-Hellene Poets, an Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry

GODS

And the first man saw

the sun’s ascent for the first time

and he heard the music

responding to it sweetly

thousands of words

thousand compliments

offered to the spring of day

and everything, what a miracle,

the hymns and everything

spread to the four corners of the earth

and the eons gave them flesh

and turned them into

gods of light

monsters of harmony

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1926763513

Νανά Ησαϊα, Δύο ποιήματα