Bows & Sterns Revised

Source of eternal hope

Behind the breakwater

Weeping for a Heaven Lost

Ὅ, τι κι᾿ ἂν εἶχε τόχασε, γυναῖκα, βιός, παιδιά του·
τίποτε δὲν τ᾿ ἀπόμεινε στερνὴ παρηγοριά.
Πέταξ᾿ ἡ ἔννοια ἀπὸ τὸ νοῦ κι᾿ ἡ ἐλπίδ᾿ ἀπ᾿ τὴν καρδιά του
κι ἡ ὑπομονὴ ἐμαρμάρωσε στὰ στήθη του βαριά.

Ἰωάννης Πολέμης (1862-1924) - Νερωμένο Κρασί

Looking Southwest

Rose

Those Days !

Fake apples and falling thoughts

Early worries

Frozen wave

Li

Sunny Smile

Two trees and a bench

Opinions

Pilgrims

Childhood memories

Shades and Faces

Green over Blue

For order at sea is the wave ...

Stone built blues

Imprisoned to eternal order,

tightly masoned red stones

gaze bonded at the afternoon light.

Rebels protrude, a path aloft.

Below water flows hastily 

to meet the Aegean blue.

To join the mother sea. 

To become salty - alive.

For such is the purpose

to be salty to join the sea,

where order is neigh a bond

nor is the light a maze of green.

For order at sea is the wave

and cleansing path aloft

the blue light - abundant to all,

rebels and obedient alike.

ioannispk - son of a pirate

Standing silent against the wind

Blue Doors

Walls and Fences

Light Cage

And there I saw my thoughts trapped.
Aegean summer light showering around.
I sought shelter in the comfort of my childhood
shadows - bliss is the belfry.

Saint George's bells tolled midsummer noon.
One last line remains to cast off.
Then there shall be the open sea.
Set a blue sail - homebound .

A blue roof and a water mattress.
Homebound to the Archipelagos.
Never shall I be slave to the shadows,
neigh shall I seek shelter from light.

For Abdulah - Ioannispk - son of a pirate

Mid Summer mews ...