Catafraktos - Byzantine Knight

Anywhere under the sky, will be buried, a man,
ringing the bells to her Holiness, convent nuns
it would be an act of impiety, enslaved to live,
in a world of memories, to recall and strive..

Heavenly echo of a prelude Maria's smile benign,
his past of bitter shadows - dim hope to decline
in a cadaverous of dusk, slow the Nyx will reign
betrothal feast died in him, despite his deign.

He never dies; absurd the darkened call of winds
to stream a flow of relentlessness his life's bids
bestow, drops of useless red, his flow lingers,
by sword men only lived, and wounds' stingers.

Billeting Area on the Wall, Queen-Omnipotence
as Barbaric hordes attack her sacred Omniscience,
a Catafraktos, noblest of fighters, in manly duty,
offering his sword, to defend her solemnized beauty.

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Geronimo.. I Heard the Moon..

One-dimensional route,
a paratrooper sight,
of the 1st battalion,
501 parachute Infantry Regimen
serving for being a soul of a manly cause,
sentry at night
a code that never reached me,
guard, twelve to three AM...

Shadows my companions,
and an owl's cry, while sprites
become familiar, senses subside,
illusions, a snake's rattle
yesterday I saw my partner's burial,
and I nod my head
sideways, try to see the scene,
in perspective, was it a battle?

He left.. Where cherubs (they say) ,
wait for souls, I smile, aren't they dead?

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Ascetic Man

Ascetic man awaits for me, in granite crags
his narrow cave, and bellicose to askance,
I enter; am I deceived from his aquiline nose?
odor of earth as he 's besmeared by crows.

A Holy man in front of me, starts to berate,
and laughs! Birds sing a mountain aubade,
Indigenous, gray crags, with an autocrat,
a radiative beneficence, from an autodidact,
ember-eyes, flames to denounce and enact.

My soul 's confused and binded; an uproar,
betimes I feel this is, angel and a spool, I soar,
the old one smiles; a lighthearted wild grin,
avuncular's benevolence and incense therein.

Amid in the dim air he suspends; Corybantic,
he sparkles, scintillates, emits flashes frantic,
his counter-transference; avidly his gnome,
'Are you Nymphed? Nymphs are box-comb'

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Efhi (Greek poem)

ΕΥΧΗ

Πόσες στεριές μ' ένα σκοπό γυρίσαμε μαζί,
Αιώνια ταξιδεύοντας - στιγμές του αποσπερίτη,
Τόσα σημάδια από στιγμές σε κύκλους και σιωπή,
Πορεία με το νοητό που μούδωσες διαβήτη,
(τόσο μακρυά και απρόσμενη στου ονείρου τη γιορτή) .

Καλό τιμόνι να κρατάς σε ρότα αληθινή,
Θυμάσαι; Σε περίμενα - αυλή Πολυτεχνείου,
Καλό τιμόνι σταθερό στου ανέμου τη βροχή,
Ευχή που απλώνεται παντού σα συντροφιά του κρύου,
(Κρυφή πυξίδα νοητή - ανείπωτη ευχή) .

Ιδανική, Ανάλλοιωτη σε κράτησα κι Αγνή,
Τη σκέψη σου για φυλαχτό χτίζοντας τις σιωπές,
που απλώνονταν ολόγυρα και γέμιζ' η ζωή,
Μονάκριβη ολομόναχη στων άστρων τις τροχιές,
(Μονάχη συντροφιά εσύ σχεδόν αληθινή) .

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Escargot

An escargot was pacing within a pasture,
amid greens and weeds, flowers and bees,
and was whistling happily in agriculture,
his best allegro song, 'fiu fi-fiu fiu fiii'.

The snail was happy! Bees were humming,
and above, a bright Sun, crowned its shell,
with little morning dew drops, drumming,
tip tip; Like an ocean wide, was the well!

Pacing he whistled, feathered and bonnie,
aesthetic, pleasantly apt was his sound,
nodding to birds in foliage who were lonely,
fi-u fi-fiu fi-u fii, with clover abound.

And happily the escargot nicely smiled,
to all creatures with poetic glimmering,
with a cuckoo radiantly to coo-coo mild,
he pi-ki pi-ki, reputed scripts genuine!

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Echidna

Eternal entities claim my time's burden,
as all our expectations return in Chaos,
a cause to sleep among Gaia's children,
monsters born eons ago, along with Eos.

Echidna-Adder; beautiful Gaia's daughter,
and Uranus; facial countenance of a deity,
and in a moment of admittance, serpent,
a deathly coil around your defense alterity.

Echidna will provoke and surrender venom,
in worlds, where her beauty is fantasized,
to reach her dark hidden aptitude phenom,
to taste her hedonism charisma edenized.

Echidna stares; to magnetize a hero's soul,
and dance; a perfect reward for prowess,
effused your life is in a cadaverous call,
softly in your stare she will devotedly hiss.

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Eighth of May

Of windy spaces ancestry, form resurrected
in colors of that prime spring, response kind to me
because of me, adoring feast, befell, you felt it
of islands shore foam whiffs, Olympian offspring.

First I was, a celebration visitor, my vows redeemed
glances that searched for you, of our oceans offer
I stayed there, crowned of hymns, blue roses breed
as you descended, of dreams wind, another present.

A distribution of windy forms, upon my souls nod
a visitor of solitude, deities, Eighth of May reign
to be a companion of dew drops, of mornings mode
to see you as my falling drops, of a colossal rain.

Rain drops convene for me, embrace this proposal
your hands upon your facial, for me they wander,
when you recall all of this dusk, our line coastal
for every May of the eighths, your staring to offer.

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V Alloy Hollers

A rider on far route, reckless, consents,
to bolt down a pain of his life's gambling
to castigate his former self, and to extent,
his forcefulness silvery, morose rambling.

Fast shadow, tears the darkness to enter
another night; deathly destiny 's a scythe
outright he becomes his sins' repenter,
speeding on fatalistic heftiness to writhe.

A thousand cubic ways to be inviolable
unlighted sister Stygian, on solid torque,
a miss is partial to weak, a warrior to fable,
upon a slope of Winter ice, on Devil's fork.

One hundred forty power, solid to climb,
the mountain' icy slope, virile and brave,
noticeable by fog's Amadryads, and thyme,
estimable Nymphs amidst the oaks, wave.

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Bushido

[Bushido]

1._ Justice
Apply justice, when time is right.
Crooked, unfair actions to denounce,
Be ready to accurately strike.
Before action be wise, on balance.
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2._ Courage
Courage is virtuous on righteousness,
a sacrifice to unworthiness is odd,
defend correct values with ableness,
admitting mistakes with mind bold.
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3._ Benevolence
Love, affection, sympathy for another,
combined with an excellence of mind,
highest soul's attributes and character,

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Impetus of sinners

My eyes were not able to stare, actions delayed or seized
a kissed bit of neck, a response's lift, a caress long missed

Almost of a perjurer of my prime, odd self, a painter's easel,
a cross birth of desires - a fence of abandonment, a drizzle

of sea foam or tears! Of even moments, my senses surround
you, the same void remains, not to fulfill, a fortress abound...

Sea gulls weighing their flights above, lift high, a move on
and then become of air, uprising of senses, far of horizon...

Dusk! Kind of a glassy gray, the sky! Your breathing nimble,
all of another way subtle. Silences, adorned, at times feeble.

settled, tangible! All your internal spirits, one even touch...
You hushed! Was it a domain of yours? Or more to match?

Watching up high, as if you were an airy, rare adornment
or conquered in a sovereign domus of odd abandonment

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