Archive for 19/12/2025

Tasos Livaditis – Selected Poems

Posted: 19/12/2025 by vequinox in Literature

WE WALK under the heavy coat of someone else who walks
silently, who has no name; perhaps for this he’s truer to himself and
when we raise the cup it also hides in the secret so we don’t quench
our thirst because providence wants us to be fast, lonely, inside
a promise like the fields that in the fall go covered and only one
who leaves rediscovers his motherland since our every word shuts
a door here or a window there and what comes as dust or mistake
sits on the table. However at night anybody can be the spoken
person.

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Katerina Anghelaki Rooke – Selected Poems

Posted: 19/12/2025 by vequinox in Literature

II
Greatness protects us both
with the sky’s little lambs and bears
you, an adventure of the cloud
and I always here.
If we touch each other
I’ll be the redemption of sickness
If I touch you
the beginning of the end.
And I remained
with the nocturne divided shape of the olive tree
with the darkness and the struggle
I remained close to the moss
on whatever pulls you down all the time.
I was left with half words
and I returned.
The old man will endure the night
nothing perfect has ever occurred
on time.

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Chthonian Bodies

Posted: 19/12/2025 by vequinox in Literature

Ontogenesis
Immortal darkness
of the underworld, oh, Kore
a supplicant I become
the sky to adorn
the cloud with my fear to define
momentous freedom of thought
I am the Great Spirit’s song
eternal warmth of life
I possess before I come down
to find refuge in your abode
after my days reach their end
accept me in your Sanctum Sanctorum
oh Kore, a simple minded fir I’ve been
for all the days and nights of my life

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Entropy

Posted: 19/12/2025 by vequinox in Literature

Hourglass
In this world, light is constantly fading
in another, darkness is wrinkled and escapes
the moment that brings everything
and takes them back
like the sea wave
crushes, recedes and returns
I hope for the life of death
for the dead who are still alive
in their radiance
for the umbilical cord staring at itself
on the other side
for a voyage in another time and place
for an in-between station, change of direction
hourglass the speechless time
is recycled
on one hand that learns to know
and wants us to love it so, it’ll disembark us
whole in forgetfulness.
I hope in innocence since it transforms
the nonsense of life
into fleeting reflections
to those who won’t have time
to the impatience of moments in eternity
when the front door creaks open
to the once upon a time.

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