MUSIC
POETRY
2010
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NARRATION
ABOUT US
COMEDY
A Map of Greece Across the Sky
Across the sky, like on a map,
the Grecian ocean meets some
steep, Olympian mountains
where the coastline always sees
its overwhelming boundlessness.
I'm watching shapes and blobs
on high where countless patchy clouds
forming outlines like the islands
by the southern coast of Greece
lie dappled on the blue today.
I'd been in love with Greece on a hill,
for once I found a valley
holding pillars, woods of silence
by a godlike bay in Greece
inclining to a deep blue sea.
That day, I witnessed antiquity:
the light was one bright shaft
like on some distant stage where curtains
had been raised to show how Greece
performed before immortal waves.
I loved Greece and had to
let her be that time, but now she's
coming back to me like mountains
rise before one's view in Greece,
and there's her azure smile again.
Oh, Helen of Troy!--Poseidon!--
your oracles--Delphi--Zeus!
Oh, for your mystery--Athens!--
to you, oh sacred, ancient Greece
I shall return and hail your shrines!
See how Greece and the sea
appear like a map across the sky,
and how, like in the olden times,
man reaches out to embrace the
heart and soul of what was Greece!
© Freddy Niagara Fonseca
Published in The Eclectic Muse, Richmond, B.C., Canada, in December 2004
Design and copyright 2009 Freddy Niagara Fonseca
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