WORDS
For Nanos Valaoritis
When at times we return from Paris and inhale the breeze of the Saronic Gulf under its friendly light and the scent of pines, in the sobriety of myths - today's and those of antediluvian times - then like a blasting of wind instruments or like a vibrating percussion of drums there rise, like bright jets of water, certain words, oracular words, arched and culminating words of unity, words of incalculable significance for the present and the future, the words "Eleleu", " I love you", and "Glory in the highest", and then suddenly, as in the touch of crossed swords or the clanging arrival of an onrushing train in the underground tunnels of Paris, these words also rise : "Chardon-Lagache", "Denfert-Rochereau", "Danton", "Odeon", "Vauban", and "Gloria, gloria in excelsis".
(απο τη διγλωσση εκδοση με κειμενα του Ανδρεα Εμπειρικου σε μτφ. του ποιητη Γιαννη Γκουμα, "the blending of seasons and other selected poems / κραμα ενιαυτων και αλλα ποιηματα" - ΟΚΤΑΝΑ (ΑΙ ΛΕΞΕΙΣ), εκδ. : ΚΑ'Ι'ΡΕΙΟΣ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ - ΑΝΔΡΟΣ, ιουν. 2012, σελις 131)
For Nanos Valaoritis
When at times we return from Paris and inhale the breeze of the Saronic Gulf under its friendly light and the scent of pines, in the sobriety of myths - today's and those of antediluvian times - then like a blasting of wind instruments or like a vibrating percussion of drums there rise, like bright jets of water, certain words, oracular words, arched and culminating words of unity, words of incalculable significance for the present and the future, the words "Eleleu", " I love you", and "Glory in the highest", and then suddenly, as in the touch of crossed swords or the clanging arrival of an onrushing train in the underground tunnels of Paris, these words also rise : "Chardon-Lagache", "Denfert-Rochereau", "Danton", "Odeon", "Vauban", and "Gloria, gloria in excelsis".
(απο τη διγλωσση εκδοση με κειμενα του Ανδρεα Εμπειρικου σε μτφ. του ποιητη Γιαννη Γκουμα, "the blending of seasons and other selected poems / κραμα ενιαυτων και αλλα ποιηματα" - ΟΚΤΑΝΑ (ΑΙ ΛΕΞΕΙΣ), εκδ. : ΚΑ'Ι'ΡΕΙΟΣ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ - ΑΝΔΡΟΣ, ιουν. 2012, σελις 131)