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Spermatic red

Embeirikos Andreas poetry

“Art pour l' art” is not

The superior expression of poets and men

Nor the socialist realism which is simply politics

Nor the satisfaction of privileged classes

This is not the poets' destination

Because it is not possible

Through abstract beauty only

Or through the conventionally depicted beauty

Or through “quad erat demonstrandum” only or the “because”

To replace or suffocate the impetus of drives

Since discourse is not reason

Since beauty is not aesthetics

And good is not morality

Since “un coup de dés jamais n' abolira le hasard”

Since one spermatozoon only is enough

To inseminate woman's ovum or the word

Since only eros can beat thanatos

Poetry will be spermatic

Utterly erotic

Or it won't exist

(translated by Boukalas Pantelis, it is part of his article with title '' Greek poetry in the late twentieth century. http://genesis.ee.auth.gr/dimakis/Gramma/8/03-boukalas-abiW.html)

Νικολαϊδης Αριστοτέλης
"Αφρόεντα"
                               Α
     Ο ναυτικός των Ιονίων υδάτων
πέρασε την ζωή του στο Αιγαίο
και πέθανε στη Μαύρη θάλασσα.
      Πουλιά τον συνοδεύαν κι έντομα
     τον υποδέχθηκαν - επίδοξα υδροπλάνα.
     Τέλος τον άρπαξε ο βυθός
     ο σκύλος με τα θαλερά σκυλόψαρα

                               Β
    Τα εξαίσια χώματα
    και τ' αετώματα των γυμνών εφήβων.
    Μέρες αλκυονίδες, ώρες
    ευθύβολες της Καθαράς Δευτέρας,
    ώ λυρικό ξεπέταγμα χαρταετών!

   Γ
   Απέμεινε μονάχα κάποιος γλάρος
   ή τα πτερά μονάχα κάποιου γλάρου,
μη τάχα, σκέπτομαι, είν' αφρός
τούτο που απέμεινε στη θάλασσα;

Reflections

Sappho's poetry

The gleaming stars all about the shining moon
Hide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendid
In the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed earth
with clear silver light.

(translated from ancient greek, translator kakosuranosx)

Σαπφώ

AΣTEREΣMENAMΦIKAΛANΣEΛANNAN
AΨAΠYKYΠTOIΣIΦAENNONEIΔOΣ
OΠΠOTAΠΛHΘOIΣAMAΛIΣTAΛAMΠHΣ
APΓYPΙAΓAN

music by Manos Hadjidakis performed by the group New York rock 'n' roll ensemble

A boat on a sea, the sun over all

Yannis Ritsos poetry

The ship departed
the whistle remained
in the room all night
on the white sheets
completely naked
after love making.

from Lots (1977) [Collected Poems: IGamma ---pg 269]
(translated by Scott King)