I know summer is coming to an end
Each time you fall afore my eye again,
Though I can hardly bear you under rising temperatures
You are always there to keep me warm when they drop.
When I was younger … CONTINUE READING »
From Kastellorizo to Lycabettus
Asked for a memory the first that came to mind
The moonless sky, the warmth of that Athenian night,
The pervading scent of citrus aurantium trees,
The juice of bitter oranges trickling down my chin.
At the head of the … CONTINUE READING »
From Kastellorizo to Lycabettus
Asked for a memory the first that came to mind
The moonless sky, the warmth of that Athenian night,
The pervading scent of citrus aurantium trees,
The juice of bitter oranges trickling down my chin.
At the head of the … CONTINUE READING »
Poeticles Collections Released
Poeticles are “poetic-less” melanges of words portraying the startlingly multifarious aspects of a random human being’s life. Its perceptions, sentiments, observations and realities.
Five years of Poeticles have been selected to compose a five-volume series divided in various themes, from … CONTINUE READING »
Mourning at the bar
My arrival by train to the lake bar
Is a little squared metal kiosk,
With several white tables on its terrace
It hosts me on red chairs under its wooden porch.
Spirited good mornings evenings and nights
Greet me with … CONTINUE READING »
Unable to leave
Loving you unsettles me, dismantles all
My walls a brick at the time as I
Frantically struggle to recompose,
The smithereens of me for my abode
Not to crumble down and I to fall.
Loving you dismays me, baffles my … CONTINUE READING »
Goggle-Travelling through the Meaning of Life
“Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them.”
Hamlet, William Shakespeare, 1602.
THE BOOK – Goggleman grew up … CONTINUE READING »
Unafraid
Venturing into wild woods a declivity
Framed by sheltering trees and threatening thorns,
Through a quasi-undiscernible track past footsteps
Guide me to a rocky berm of pebbles galore.
Diverse shapes and colours build hypnotic structures
Monkeylike I toil on them … CONTINUE READING »
Countercurrent
My dear fish I am finning upstream
I finally left the ocean for the inland
I am embarking on a new adventure
Surrounded by immensity, tall trees
Reaching for the sky frame the river on both sides,
Earth is covered … CONTINUE READING »
The People Places & Things Collection
Poeticles collections by Aurora Kastanias are now available for purchase worldwide on Amazon.
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“For me they went as far as killing,
storm clouds to shield me from hail”
stomp me to intoxication
Engendered … CONTINUE READING »