THE DREAM OF THE ROOD

The Dream of the Rood, traced to the 8th century, was the earliest of the English “dream-vision” poems. It describes in allegory the redemption of the world through the Cross. This version is from Project Gutenberg.
Lo! choicest of dreams I will relate,
What dream I dreamt in middle of night
When mortal men reposed in rest.
Methought [...]

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A Serbian Poem – -

A Song of Defiance
by Dobrica Eric
English Translation
I
the servant of God,
the Serb,
announce willingly
through chains and wires
before the witnesses
Power, Agony and Injustice,
that I am guilty and admit my crime!
I am guilty that I am a somebody
and not a nothing and a nobody.
I am guilty that in a time of general
Serb-hating
I go to an Orthodox Christian church
and [...]

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KOSOVO

KOSOVO
To Predrag Obradovic Gagi
and all the others who had to leave
The Kosovar soil’s much darker than else,
its sky is more blue, its grass is more green…
Happiness and sorrows are much more intense,
and forgetting legends is more than a sin.
Through pain, blood and battles, there were boldly set
the roots of our own newer generation,
that brought out [...]

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Remember – -

Last night I awoke in the middle of the night with a poem dancing in my brain. I couldn’t get back to sleep until I had recorded it, so I did. I put it on my space at Pathetic.org, (unless you knew me as a child, you won’t recognize the name – LOL!) and I [...]

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Τhe Greek language

Τhe Greek language
Nikiforos Vrettakos
When Ι sometime leave this light
Ι shall meander upwards like a
murmuring stream.
And if by chance somewhere among
the azure corridors
Ι meet with angels, Ι shall speak
to them in Greek, since
they do [...]

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Τhe field of words

Τhe field of words
Nikiforos Vrettakos
Like the bee round a wild
flower, so am Ι. Ι prowl
continuously around the word.
Ι thank the long lines
of ancestors who moulded the voice.
Cutting it into links, they made
meanings. Like smelters [...]

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A smaller world

A smaller world
Nikiforos Vrettakos
Ι seek a shore where Ι can fence in
a patch of the horizon with
trees or reeds. Where, gathering infinity,
Ι can have the sense that: there are nο machines
or very few; there [...]

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Roads Go Ever On – J.R.R. Tolkien

Roads Go Ever On
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on,
Under cloud and under star.
Yet feet that wandering have [...]

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