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POETRY OF DIMITRIS PALAZIS
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A song was coming
phosphorescing inside the strings of wind:
"The gods are dancing
with their one eye to the heights..."
But a prophet grieved
shaking his cloak:
"Only the trees I regret
that remain in the five winds!
Today their leaves are sold
tomorrow their sides
cost death"
Footsteps
One kiss
hidden behind the skins of trees
was singing dirges for the falling leaves
And that frozen air was shivering
the forest of men
They bent till they left
the footsteps of their songs
Portable Magnificence
You must go away
the dead body is polluting you
Wake up my love
You must go away
The world's protagonists
drop life
above your house
with portable magnificence
In the Sound of Telemann
In your memory
I devoted
the following verse
Memory,
I said,
how you drop
more waste tonight
The oratorio
drives me crazy,
lives that I lived
turn me in the void
Tell me
is it valuable to imagine
old rains
in the sound of Telemann?
The Countdown of Seconds
Surviving one
with two destinies
and verses hung
from the hook of signs
only you
from the tall winter
go down
in the deep land
Words written
in the entry
ask you to return
to the world's
narcotic silence
Ghosts
are rolling late
in the rain
you should find
a taxi
in the fever
of the hung vehicles
The down town
keeps well
the bones of living
strike
their knees
I know your way
Address: Emissions
how
could I forget
the sharp gravestones
and the big doors
that open
and never close
the countdown of seconds
Have you understood?
The countdown of seconds!
In My Confining Shoes
In these shoes confining me
a lot was written
the legs
were burdened
the friends
burdened like ice
fallen in the afternoon...
In my closet
I put thyme
from my hands
a red place
timbers pointed
and on them
leaves hiding
some yesterday...
Something new
something
fried fresh
today...
Imprisoning Lions
keep my thoughts
untouched
before they crystallize
in the distress of pain
the pain
of the afternoon...
Don't Cry
Don't cry for me
because I
never cried
Don't dream for me
because I
never dreamed
Honestly
I am punished
because your heart
sorrows for me
I raise my eyes
to you
who calls to me
Make the debt of teardrops
my heart requires
to come out of darkness
drunk
and stretch your hands
up to the end
of dawn
The Hole
I'm calling you
from the hole
under your chair
I am an abyss,
a well
a black voice
from the universe
I'm singing for you
Till you fall
Another will come
I'll ask him, too
Another and another and another...
Always to empty the chair
From the group of dead
the half we have left
You don't listen to me!
How long shall I wait?
Sighs and Deals
As of today
I saw your glance
for the first time
the clouds
that you bring into mind
Your marks
on the dirty jacket
remind me of blood
and feathers
nailing its back
free of charge
I wonder what the angel
of the city seeks
in the Square
with a flag that waves
sighs and deals?
Memorial
The way sun recycles
wet cotton
in the sky's blood
I drew you in front of me
weaving dark and light
with my figures
Swollen immortal page
blew into multicolored lines,
thin body figures
quiet and nice, I felt
your thought that is sleeping
the body of the past
under your dense hair
Deep in sleepy eye-holes
your memory
was not of existing things
The Dark Chest
He stretched his hand
looking with discretion
strings of dark
music of touch
blushed the window's delicate cheeks
and the train rings
climbing the dark echo-shell
through the fingers
turning back to my mind
The gift was
taken by soul
A desirable weight was
a rhapsody
sweetening the life rubble
Imaginary sounds
The gift was
bent over the opposite bank
stretched the hands
to know the night
Dense like stars' material
the dark chest was collecting
the hinted ones by the hands
The Painting I've Changed
The sky was wrapped by the night sheet
The small door of the stone house creaked
showing off a yellow light
The man wedged his figure
bending his head
The door closed
and the ground smell
calmed down the birds
The wind spread wings
languidly and flew on
The house, lonely
around hills,
trees,
wet grass
an old cart
raised its long arm to the sky
The velvet mauve night
kissed with gentleness and love
the fairy folk of the wood
The man's prayer
opened up the door of a dream
and silver chord
melodies of time silver-plated
The Life of The Wind
White marble emerges
over red roses
like a white belt
surrounding the garden's music
It sprouts
where people lived, sometimes
emerging like a hymn
in the blue sky columns
Push inside me the clouds
this day; full of heat
is the religious life of the wind
that has found me
at the light,
the travelers dissolved
and the red-rose collars.
Tell me more
than I remember,
life of the wind
The Blue Winter
I fear the black dress
In the blue winter
Diaphanous white hands,
Invisible eyes
Crystal touch
Of evaporated sweat
To enter the chamber
I feared with the varnish smell
The knocks of my heart boiling
Hands thin and frozen,
Unfinished shaking
The stage inverted
But the black dress
And the varnish smell
Have slipped from the bright crack
In the blue winter
Inner Island
Deserted animal the man!
Nestles into the island
of an inner world
unsplit and despairing
He holds half of the map
He hides the other
One margin is perishable
with a supposed beginning
The other slips...
If perhaps
something inappropriate
occupies the island
like the lair of a wolf
don't say to me:
The island is corrupt!
Party of Oblivion
The past is a scale...
From its tightened lips
pleasures rattle death
search for a place
And a lot of corpses
pass unknowingly
from the vaccines of the city
Play bets
while other speak
bent to the window
Party of oblivion
In the depths a figure
puts waste straight
Provokes the eye
The spectators behind
None believes
In the necks of the pedestrians
Almost no one
runs through
the distance of centuries
Sometimes His Mouth Existed
Some nights
the shirt burns
the street shouts:
I cannot
unhook
a person
I look at his shoes...
Both raise a man up
when paving-stone roads rip
their sticking voices
A man
whose mouth sometimes existed
Whistling
Who looked for my corpse
in the cold rain?
who said:
"look..."
A tree hangs
its shoes
feathers
are moving by themselves
In the streets
a whistling
burns my lips
Engraving
that nothing of salvation
has appeared
since you came