This is a meandering page, organised by association and vague subject matter. It is a mosaic in which I inlay new additions, and the most recent five inserts are highlighted by the marker (NEW). You can go to the index, if you would rather not follow the tour. The latest poem will be found HERE
There is
also a directory with short pieces of reminisces
mainly from when we were young.
The
links to images are clearly marked.
The
rest are links to poems.
Lets start with my favorite
and then
give a blessing ,
for good luck
The road leads from the ancient, through the modern, to the inner lives.
Read on.
and the new Metro of Athens, a road to Hades?*
sails
and a technopaegnion of sailing
and here is another play with form, a technopaegnion ,
Wings
and Wheels
and a nod towards a lovely embroidery I have
finished crossstiching. It is a transfer from
an old
chinese rug, and it is 80cmX53cm. Started in 1980 finished November 1999. About
1/3 was done
the last three months. Here is a photo.
and a technopaegnion on the mother of us all
and one on the Eclipse
and a play with cascades
and a simile
and one
on the tree of life
codes of honor
a comment on mythic personae,
transcribed from the original greek,
also posted in www.poetry.com as Anna Seraphimidou
and a tribute to a Titan
after the fall of the iconoclasts
and on a Madonna of the cities* this appears also in volume II of www.poetrynow.org
invocation a poem translated from the greek which was written years ago
and another invocation, written as Timarete Theocritos, to Demetra
which appears also in volume II of www.poetrynow.org
απεσβετο γαρ λαλον υδωρ for the talking water was stilled
and an echo from mount Parnassus ( originally written in greek)
and a poem referring to Walls of Cavafy, Fool,Fool
translations of Cavafy
and off on a tangent from Cavafy's
"remember body", some sour grapes
the audacity to play with a poem of a great poet, in point
counterpoint
led to a poem on poets where
angels fear to tread
and the playful retort to a fellow poets take off diminishing poets :)
more much more are the poets
and on poetic Inspiration
and on aborted poems
another comment on poets
and a comment of meters and rhymes
on poems, once more
a
poem with a nod towards Psappha Aphrodite's chase
a commentary on the thread PoetsLeague in the Athens open Forum blackbirds
and some more about blackbirds in spring
a poem in greek same emotional content as "inferno " below αναστενάρηδες
on summer fires fire burn
inferno while running away from the fires
a photo of the burnt pines and the surviving grove
and on bonfires
a photo of the grandparent olive tree
another photo of the Olivetree
a poem on the olive tree seen in the photos above the great grandparent of them all
and here
is the first olive tree
poem, written with the persona of Timarete Theocritos of the city of Athens in
the now defunct www.ancientsites.com, trying to draw attention to a
mistaken entry in the introductory story.
and a
nature lesson
and on walking through my neighborhood
and more nature
and on nature's whimsy
and more on quakes
and about
tsunamis too
and reminiscing by the seashore once more
and reminiscing on washday
my feral cat Ha
and then again , we have the spider (New)
and a poem about birds, the common fare on Ha's
table
and a photo of Ha , ha-ing, under the olive tree
Neutry, a
daughter of Ha from four summers ago, is the only survivor from her litter (
Lefty and Righty her two sisters,
all named
because of the patches over their eyes). this is once more her season
The cradle of a kitty
And here is a play with five
"haikus" on different facets of the same subject, a horse put to pasture next to my summer cottage
a poem inspired by www.africam.com , amazing grace
and the epitaph of fox* , who grown careless in his old
age, was coming to the water in the garden and the food left for the cats. This
appears also in www.poetry.com
under the name of Anna Seraphimidou
and a poem about migrations, winging it*
and morning musings before a storm
and on how similar* we are and on life
and a grand game
and some thoughts on the relativity of living on
this globe
and here is a seasonal poem, Yuletide
and the gifts the season brings
and a wish for the millenium
an angry poem written for the angry poets thread of the open Poetsleague fury
and a political cat poem
and something about the land of the blackbirds
and the swallows that are really late
and
and
a different anger surfacing with bird imagery
And a pigmy condor on my
shores ; and an unusual friendship of a duck and a condor (NEW)
and a belief in the regenerating waters of life
and on peace
on what we are served on the small screens in the evenings,
and an even angrier poem, about the plight of women in Afghanistan
and the dire situation
of the children too,
and another political poem, not for the queezy hearted, Beware,
a painful poem
Airports and people
and an
observation on the layers of reality
and some rather grim playfull cogitations
a comment on incarnations*
intent *
on morphing, this appears
also in www.poetry.com
under the name of Anna Seraphimidou
and a comment on modern day expectations
and a societal observation on dreamchildren
and some reflections on reflections
and then there is in retrospect
the neverending story of the language of
mathematics
and a reply to a reply on the above :)
a description of listening to a nightingale
a poem on the nightingale CD
and another
nightingale poem (NEW)
memories of Wellesley
Mνήμες Καππαδοκίας στην Στοά του Βιβλίου, το αρχείο φωτογραφιών Μερλιέ
Lacrimae rerum on the persistance of sad memories
and some things
really keep memories
and on the transient nature of human
constructs , and humans.
and some feelings need to be
current
an Ode to the Body and Soul*
which appears in volume 1 of www.poetrynow.org
in the midst of life we are in death, or death where is thy sting
a translation in english of a birth poem written in greek long ago
and a look in between spaces
and an
invisible cloak (New)
and a dual tongue retrospective look
and here is a fairy tale,
still under construction, but fun. It needs
illustrations.
expectations of immortality
and reminiscing about the early days
and something on the everchanging underpinnings of reality
on the natural rhythms of the Phoenix
on the nature of time
and a more timely time
and a precis, onthe everlasting dance of life
and the desire for the dance of health
on falling off the edge of the world
And a tongue in cheek chaotic poem
a poem inspired by the funerary portraits of graecoroman Egypt, Fayum
written for the father of a friend vision
and a technopaegnion on Logos, hence logic
and
of the modern day Amazons
don't say* written
after a conversation with Bianca,
a garland , written a few hours after her
clinical death
when I still had not conscious knowledge she had left, and the wreath was
for her grave.
on life and aging
Before you taste the waters of Lethe
A sound off from Virginia Woolf , Gods calling from the sea
and an intimation of mortality
an epitaph to a young colleague and to a teacher
who faded away at a hundred
The really old , ready to
reincarnate . (BAKSON is a reference to Winnie the Pooh, and the
"back soon" sign Owl put up
and a less serious epitaph on Ancient Sites
and something more on the end of the game in AS
a nostalgic fragment from childhood (New)
a poem in greek in honor of uncle Euclid
and in memory of his mother
grandmothers and crones
and a memory
from my great grandmother
memories revisited
and the zany double dactyls
I suppose that my ALEPH poem falls
into odds
and ends
these greek poems
were written before 1998
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