Friday, June 1, 2012

Wild Cyclamen Mode


Heads up though 
Seeing such impossible 

Flowers spring up everywhere 
May not always tend 

To elate one 
Let alone 

Make one feel as they say 
In the pink but oh 

Such mixed blessings 
Should they not 

Then give one pause 
To think? 


3 comments:

  1. Indeed, one of springtime's pleasures is seeing their nodding little sweptback faces poking up through incredibly tight openings between rocks; one of Ritsos’ Eighteen Short Songs of the Bitter Motherland –set to music by Mikis Theodorakis—is one titled “Conversations with a Flower (Cyclamen)” sung here in 1985 by Greek students studying in Moscow.

    Here’s the original Greek:
    Κυκλαδινό κυκλάμινο
    στου βράχου τη σχισμάδα
    πού βρήκες χρώματα κι ανθείς
    πού μίσχο και σαλεύεις

    Μέσα στο βράχο σύναξα
    το γαίμα στάλα στάλα
    μαντήλι ρόδινο έπλεξα
    κι ήλιο μαζεύω τώρα

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  2. Here's the correct YouTube link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1dm_vNtSo

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