Friday, 3 April 2020

My English Translation of Greek Poet Titos Petropoulos from "Magnetic Fields"; MAGNETIC FIELDS POEM


IMAGE SEEN THOUGH MAGNETIC FIELDS


The fire was being extinguished
By the movements
Of the dancers

The resonance,
Strong in the ears 
Of the guards

Wood, vertical 
Will catch fire

The path is large,
Filled with kids

Opaque youth
In old age,
In bronze bodies

Opaque youth
In strong minds

Once again,
In what was hidden,
In thin clouds
How many jokes we made!

You remember,
In spite of the suffocation
We were managing to breathe

You remember so well
That you must have been here
`
Tell me
You exist
Under this tropical winter sun

The images passed on,
With the smell of a living being,
With the ashes of a killed one

In the planet of the weak,
In the planet of the strong

They knew!
We understood

Pity founds
The numbers of dead

The fight of surprises
Inside the treacherous fields
Has started

Actions and ways
Were suggested
By the mouths of the losers

Souls!
They visit often
The wounds of despair

In the country of temples
In the country of the law
The sounds of weapons echoed

Sarcastic laughs were heard

Heavily armed
They attacked the children

Simplicity was a void,
`no meaning left in it

And the children,
Wet swords,

They managed to endure everything

The decadence,
The glory 
of a new era has come

Loud sounds of moving chains,
Anger followed unformulated accusations
In therapeutic melancholy

Gazes filled with guilt
Ride separated in this euforia with no end

Everything comes to an end

In the mausoleum 
Of the winners
The corpses of the losers

A new beginning
Was dawning in the survival
Filled with songs
We could hear

Placed on the path
Of the breeze

Seduced by the shadows of spring

Introspection and souvenirs,
The throne of the Ego
The power of the You

We archive the years
We name the dedication

After the dark,
Before the dawn,
In a midnight fertile ecstasy
For what once existed,
Even if remaining in the shadows

BIRTH
DEATH
ETERNITY

(C) Haris Metaxa for English Translation, in Paris 27/3/2020

Dedicated to the spirit of CORONAVIRUS Apocalyptic times



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