tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post4072116538689397978..comments2024-03-11T20:39:46.221+02:00Comments on vazambam: It's That Time Againvazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-73351434768395071502011-10-19T20:39:09.777+03:002011-10-19T20:39:09.777+03:00Such a flowering example of beautiful mythological...Such a flowering example of beautiful mythological transubstantiation...vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-15546934710392944152011-10-19T12:44:30.706+03:002011-10-19T12:44:30.706+03:00Cytherea was riding in her dainty chariot, winged ...Cytherea was riding in her dainty chariot, winged by her swans, across the middle air making for Cyprus, when she heard afar Adonis' dying groans, and thither turned her snowy birds and, when from heaven on high she saw him lifeless, writhing in his blood, she rent her garments, tore her lovely hair, and bitterly beat her breast, and springing down reproached fate: ‘Even so, not everything shall own your sway. Memorials of my sorrow, Adonis, shall endure; each passing year your death repeated in the hearts of men shall re-enact my grief and my lament. But now your blood shall change into a flower . . . shall I be begrudged the right to change my prince?’<br /><br /><br />And with these words she sprinkled nectar, sweet-scented, on his blood, which at the touch swelled up, as on a pond when showers fall clear bubbles form; and ere an hour had passed a blood-red flower arose, like the rich bloom of pomegranates which in a stubborn rind conceal their seeds; yet is its beauty brief, so lightly cling it petals, fall so soon, when the winds blow that give the flower [anemone] its name."<br /><br />Ovid, Metamorphoses 10. (trans. Melville)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-13925778094337467962011-10-19T10:47:43.875+03:002011-10-19T10:47:43.875+03:00please let me
know if
the seeds that broke
fille...please let me <br />know if<br /><br />the seeds that broke<br />filled <br /><br />your starry eyesvazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-82936829902468996432011-10-18T23:34:43.040+03:002011-10-18T23:34:43.040+03:00I shall know soon. I saw a strange tree next to a ...I shall know soon. I saw a strange tree next to a vineyard. I asked the rancher what it was. Pomegranate, the answer. "When? When will the fruit be ripe and red?" I asked. Late October, the answer. Next week I will know it intimately...with my eyes, my hands, my tongue, as will the treasure chest of my lense.Wine and Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778785233226804217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-1910285823801648042011-10-18T12:20:43.821+03:002011-10-18T12:20:43.821+03:00Pomegranate--rooted in Greek song and poetry:
You...Pomegranate--rooted in Greek song and poetry:<br /><br /><i>Young Fate</i><br /><br />Naked woman<br />the pomegranate that broke<br />was full of stars.<br /><br />--#9 of Seferis' 16 Haikuvazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-35378634806706442102011-10-18T10:36:48.554+03:002011-10-18T10:36:48.554+03:00A poetry in these trees, filled with the blood of ...A poetry in these trees, filled with the blood of Adonis, from the isle of Simi -- perhaps even <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Granat_jablko.jpg" rel="nofollow">more precious than rubies</a>?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-10154455008099833622011-10-18T09:58:47.131+03:002011-10-18T09:58:47.131+03:00My pleasure--if you were here, I'd offer you s...My pleasure--if you were here, I'd offer you some rubies in exchange for your words.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-42905349055818021302011-10-18T02:19:22.992+03:002011-10-18T02:19:22.992+03:00Well that is just gorgeous. Thanks so much for it!...Well that is just <i>gorgeous</i>. Thanks so much for it!Peter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17806372860467057912noreply@blogger.com