Titos Patrikios

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Dead chimneys, smokeless
mouths emptied of laughter,
hearts that won and died-
we must bridge the lips of the abyss.

Humans, above all humans,
persistent, restless, shameless,
without doubt,
hiding nothing,
let's spill out in the streets again
to build life once again,
to build life first.

A sky full of voices
and overturned clouds
that were executed this noon-
the newspapers got this bit of news
just as they went to print.
Not one of them wrote of the fountains
that opened upon their tortured bodies.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi:

Nice poem by Patrikios. Whose translation is this?

Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Hello:

Great poem. Whose translation is this?