THE LAST OF HOMER
Today the season called autumn begins.
As the leaves began to fall
and me an Old Man
my thoughts also began to fall
and I would like to speak this once
to autumn -- about autumn.
It doesnt continue on from here...
I am abandoned, one after the other,
like the World
by the Grand hallucinations of Genesis
the metaphors...
the allegories...
the symbols...
They return to Greece with life
and leave me with death in Troy.
That is why I move along behind them
to see at long last one clean day
bringing thus this Epic to a definitive close
and with Classical diction find a measure of happiness
because Happiness is the Divine Cause
even for its own Beginning.
But Im afraid
that for the Modern critics of the Future
to whom
autumn may arrive
as eternal dark
my words about autumn -- to autumn
as if nothing was going on
might then be incorporated into a chapter
of the Iliad or the Odyssey
and thus its better if... I grow still.
Translation by PHILIP RAMP
Supawadee Poomiprasertchok --- How marvelous !!
ReplyDeleteSilvana Actis --- " WONDERFUL....The Greek Poet ♥!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteWallace LaBenneLess - American Poet ---
Superb.Great message...great wrting.Five stars.
ReplyDeleteGelene Beverly1 ----
I love the prose!! Superbly written!! Excellent expression throughout!! Beautiful imagery!!
ReplyDeleteChamay Papi --- Poet ---
You have great talent brother may GOD bless you with his peace and love in your heart...much love,.
mark --- Poet ---
Try to not overwhelm us. with your brilliance
ReplyDeleteMatthew Jenkins --- POET ---
Grandiose...Apologies but it's no Homer.
If however you'd rather I compared it to most of what passes for poetry now; it's excellent. Enough lie to hide to truth but not enough to smother it, unusual to see a poem about poetry that doesn't hook itself to real life. I think I prefer the way you hook it to something more intangible. Hanging metaphors on metaphors almost. A pleasure.
ReplyDeleteMorgan Wilke --- POET---
Wow.....This was amazing. I love the slight references to past and future. The way you talk to Autumn as if a person addressing it as a likeness of another being. Alas who am I to say Autumn is not, rather I am naught but a fool for speaking in such layman terms and so thus I bow my hat to both you and Autumn and your wildly reconnaissance conversation.
ReplyDeleteEmile Pinet --- POET ---
This poetic trip though your imagination is, thought provoking, descriptive, and creative all rolled up into a beautiful poem. Your words speak in a disciplined voice and supply the catalyst to spark further thought.
Rosalino Carvalho Vandunem Escritor --- ANGOLA -=--
ReplyDeleteGRANDE HOMEM DA LITERÁTURA.
Nathenial Jones --- POET ---
ReplyDeleteI cant keep up with you sir...i will not lie...but your poetry is above mine...smile...
Kathryn Alley --- POET ---
ReplyDeleteAwesome in and of itself !! Homer should never be allowed to grow still - his works Ageless and once again
you brought him beautifully into focus. Thank you for the reminder - thank you for the restoration of a classic...My Words to this Work..
SUSI PRASAD - India ---
ReplyDeleteSir... Can you please send me poems on love and lost..
I really wonder of what is inside your brain ..awesome it is I think Einstein never put such focus on his research...
Emna Codepi Emilce Navarro Correa --- COLOMBIA ---
ReplyDeleteEach weather station is a beautiful inspiration to write a poem ... Fall is one of them, when you see the leaves fall and the cold night esfumarce and warm sunrises ... Beautiful poem, great poet .. Blessings ..
Ritanna Foti Morasca --- USA ---
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, Superb! Hear Homer through you the creeps ... wonderful idea to hear him speak one last time ... "an Old Man" Stand Still. But even if Old Stand Still and HE will continue 'to be read and loved I'm sure, at least this and' my great hope.
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ReplyDeleteVERA NEME --- Brazil --- Ilias Foukis, talk stations is like walking in the woods ... the soul, talk about it is to release the "sacred", which is on the APCI of every ... speaking of summer, the flowers, the colors ... .. is undoubtedly speak of GOD!!! Contact ... as only a poet can speak .I appreciate that "GREAT POET" .....;);););););) ♥ ♡
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ReplyDeleteGenius poetry as a consequence of bilateral symmetry and difference in handedness. Amazing poetry from a really fine poet noticing incredible subtlety on the two sides of human being.