Archive for 22/11/2025

Nikos Engonopoulos – Poems

Posted: 22/11/2025 by vequinox in Literature

Fairytale of the Beautiful of the Big Birds
He put on the gypsy, tin armour and lay down on the new bright, green grass in the light warmth of the spring noon. However, some whispers from outside kept him from getting into the deep lust of the sweetly light blue sky and enjoying the two small clouds that sailed far away at the end of the horizon. There were two very high poplars there too. Indeed, on the north wall, was a heavy partition that hid the door (it wasn’t a secret after all). Soon, the door opened, the partition was pulled aside, and a man, wearing a toga appeared in the opening. The poet got up, went close to the porthole and glanced outside while his right hand caressed the back of the lion. “We are close” were the exact words he said, “We are close to Beirut” Suddenly he turned on the faucet and water started flowing, rising in the space dangerously. Then, he runs, grabs her breasts and kisses her lips passionately. He felt a fire spreading in his viscera, a fiery ring wrapping his kidneys while the merciless rise of his penis commenced. This phallus strong like marble, was erected at the shore and during the hours of the day, a chorus of girls, embracing each other, crowned with flowers came and sang. Some held hands and with slow steps, created a circle around the idol constantly singing a slow, serious and kind song. One girl walked away from the dance, kneeled and wound a gramophone. The poet was there too. “More pale than the Moon,” he said to her.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1926763734

Tasos Livaditis – Selected Poems

Posted: 22/11/2025 by vequinox in Literature

THEN what are the childhood years opposite this great
debt
that you exist; and here we’re again in the open air only
with the half decomposed hand of our great grandmother
in the sack
and the shadow of the evening laid on the ground
together with all the other poor people while the wheel
of the potter, in a low tone, argued
with someone we couldn’t see and the lamp we placed
on top of the roof shone that the lying-in woman
could find her way home.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087367R7C

Impulses

Posted: 22/11/2025 by vequinox in Literature

Remote
We looked in the remote chapels
and through pine needles sieving sunlight
explored the statue’s smooth body
and the rained spider web
we searched in the sigh of rose petals
in starbursts and worm-eaten pages
penned by hallucinating prophets
we hunted in decapitated houses
but we didn’t find God anywhere
and we didn’t discover him in the statue
or touch him in spider webs
recluse talked of God being Dead
and the people danced in the plaza
knowing the recluse’s verdict

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0981073565