Παρασκευή 29 Αυγούστου 2014

Ένας γέρος



Στου καφενείου του βοερού το μέσα μέρος
σκυμένος στο τραπέζι κάθετ' ένας γέρος·
με μιαν εφημερίδα εμπρός του, χωρίς συντροφιά.
Και μες στων άθλιων γηρατειών την καταφρόνεια
σκέπτεται πόσο λίγο χάρηκε τα χρόνια
που είχε και δύναμι, και λόγο, κ' εμορφιά.
Ξέρει που γέρασε πολύ· το νοιώθει, το κυττάζει.
Κ' εν τούτοις ο καιρός που ήταν νέος μοιάζει
σαν χθές. Τι διάστημα μικρό, τι διάστημα μικρό.
Και συλλογιέται η Φρόνησις πώς τον εγέλα·
και πώς την εμπιστεύονταν πάντα - τι τρέλλα! -
την ψεύτρα που έλεγε· «Αύριο. Εχεις πολύν καιρό.»
Θυμάται ορμές που βάσταγε· και πόση
χαρά θυσίαζε. Την άμυαλή του γνώσι
κάθ' ευκαιρία χαμένη τώρα την εμπαίζει.
... Μα απ' το πολύ να σκέπτεται και να θυμάται
ο γέρος εζαλίσθηκε. Κι αποκοιμάται
στου καφενείου ακουμπισμένος το τραπέζι.

Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

 
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
― Gautama Buddha


Peder Mork - Spring day at a thatched house with blooming lilacs

Spring day at a thatched house with blooming lilacs

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Τετάρτη 27 Αυγούστου 2014

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place



“My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.”
― George R.R. Martin

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Michael and Inessa Garmash Art

Michael and Inessa Garmash Art

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Τρίτη 26 Αυγούστου 2014

Your Forces and How to Use Them




Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

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Κυριακή 24 Αυγούστου 2014

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An almost Made Up Poem




I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny
they are small, and the fountain is in France
where you wrote me that last letter and
I answered and never heard from you again.
you used to write insane poems about
ANGELS AND GOD, all in upper case, and you
knew famous artists and most of them
were your lovers, and I wrote back, it’ all right,
go ahead, enter their lives, I’ not jealous
because we’ never met. we got close once in
New Orleans, one half block, but never met, never
touched. so you went with the famous and wrote
about the famous, and, of course, what you found out
is that the famous are worried about
their fame –– not the beautiful young girl in bed
with them, who gives them that, and then awakens
in the morning to write upper case poems about
ANGELS AND GOD. we know God is dead, they’ told
us, but listening to you I wasn’ sure. maybe
it was the upper case. you were one of the
best female poets and I told the publishers,
editors, “ her, print her, she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.” I loved you
like a man loves a woman he never touches, only
writes to, keeps little photographs of. I would have
loved you more if I had sat in a small room rolling a
cigarette and listened to you piss in the bathroom,
but that didn’ happen. your letters got sadder.
your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all
lovers betray. it didn’ help. you said
you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and
the bridge was over a river and you sat on the crying
bench every night and wept for the lovers who had
hurt and forgotten you. I wrote back but never
heard again. a friend wrote me of your suicide
3 or 4 months after it happened. if I had met you
I would probably have been unfair to you or you
to me. it was best like this.

 An Almost Made Up Poem - Charles Bukowski

Mysterium

Mysterium by Arthur Braginsky

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