On Our Pomegranate's Flowers Poem by dimitrios galanis
On Our Pomegranate's Flowers
On our pomegranate's flowers,
between the buzzings of bees,
pink dreams we hung up,
there to be apprendiced by birds
untill the Autumn come.
And the bells of its flowers
bugled expectation's message
with the wind's whizzers,
the buzzers and chirps
to our neighbourhood's yards.
We took the cheery message
as victorious forcast
and dyed in pink even winter's woes
to make colours fit in couples.
Our yard's prudent pomegranate
will stretch our aspirations in the sunshine,
their waverings under its warmth be basked, dried,
into its transparency be purged,
high up into the clouds
their dark faces be vaporized.
It will endow them feathers from the birds
over land and sea
their visions' webs to let spread
bearing the silky hopes of their labour.
With their sweat in Autumn's vintages
they will irigate miracles in this immortal land
of unfading pomegranate
in the shadow of its yellow lap
under the whispers of its branchlets
predicting redemptive dances
around the pedestal of our feathery Nike.
Aloha Dimitrios... ...Until the Autumn comes..., One must be well read and adept in less current political writings to comprehend the depths of such a beautifully composed image as this is... the innuendo and the direction is most delectable... captivating and drawing in the reader... and then you read the Author's notes... betrayal begets propaganda that is a sing-song of contradiction... historically... for the betrayers are ever in play... or and maybe... you are being clever as the barer of the cleaver, which so specifically cuts to the chase... in an ever evasive politically inclined way... in support of both my comments and in relation to your words: A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson All of the best from this life, to you, and all of your relations... Michaelw1two
Thank you, dear Michael for your thoughtful comments.I do aggree with your thoughts absolutely.
OK, now I found the goddess Nice. And also images of the ancient statue and the complete winged version. I had not heard of this goddess before.
The winged victory to whom Kelly refers is exactly what I do mean.In sculpture famous is the one of Samothrace to be seen in Louvre museum as one enters it.The other famous one is that of Paionios without the head and the wings found in the excavations in Olympia.
I should have written it with 'K' and not with 'c'.You are right dear Kelly.Thank you to have noticed the oversight.
Nice is the godess [of ancient greeks] of the victory.Thiw statue in the picture in reconstruction is a statue of a certain Paionios erected in Olympia.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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I struggled to completely understand the poem, but I assume it is more about survival than revolution.. The poemegranate flowers, I think, symbolises the hopes of the ordinary citizens or maybe the spirit of the word democracy.. If I am not very wrong then that word originates from 'demos', meaning 'common people' (also district I guess) and 'kratos' meaning strength.. So, as here, if I take it as the pomegranate represents the 'strength' of the the 'common people', against the economic disparities as well as corruption and suppresion of voices for human rights, I can interprete your poem as a metaphorical take on how the strength of people will reclaim the rights that have been lost... A wonderful work Dimitrios.. I read one poem of you in once a while, and everytime I do, I take away something valuable.. Thanks for your lovely and well-thought poem dear friend.. Very few poets here, I daresay, write with so much precision and knowledge as you do.. Thanks for constantly teaching me..
It's exactly as you suppose it Souren. Your talent is shown here too, dear friend.You can understand poems of another culture, you catch their target, their different means of expressions.You have a global perception of things concerning the humankind's problems.This work of mine here it's not so easy to be understood.The metaphors used are peculiar and are connected with our history of literature.Pomegranate has been used by a great greek poet who won the Nobel prize ''Odysseus Elytes'', to symbolize a certain attitude of popular joyness and crazy perception of life.With this one here I wanted to show, that there is not only a crazy pomagranate but a prudent too which tries hard to earn the living and worries about its future which has been betrayed by the responsible of politics.The stuggle of ordinary people who work hard and hope to see better days as the result of their own efforts.Thank you so much.I'm sure your effort to understsnd it will help you too.Allthe best.