Category:
Poetry
Publisher: SMILI
ISBN-10: 9607793412
Pages: 56
Poems inspired from and based on the history of two countries of the same civilisation status and ancient origin, Cyprus and Greece, and on their struggle for liberty, peace, democracy, justice and education (sunlight as they ancient said). There are also included some poems of true love.
"ΔΙΑΔΡΟΜΗ Α" - Ες ποθ' έρπες, "WAY A", Athens 2001, SMILI Publications
Excerpt
MEDITATING ON OLYMPIA
“Alas. My whole life was in vain”
Rodin overawed cried out
When he first saw Apollo at Olympia.
And frantically he rummaged
The bottom of his pouch.
Where was the fault he wondered ?
Was it a tool he had neglected ?
A tool that needed the affection of his touch ?
Breathless he dashed to the workshop of Phidias
And everywhere he sought – deep in his thoughts –
For any little thing that might have helped
Distraught he dug his fingers in the soil.
Might he, by chance, discover
A tool of Hephaestus,
He never knew ?
Might he find a godly tool
Olympia hides ?
A tool that stirs,
And elates the soul,
And sets it free.
Joseph S. Josephides
Translated by Stephanos Stephanides
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