Katastasi (accentual representation)
Ta yalya tou ine kapou -- ochi edho
oute epano sto kefali tou
oute kremasmena sto lemo tou
oute sto trapezi stin kouzina --
isos eki
sto pervazi, i kato ap tin elya
pou i gata kimate tiligmeni san
ekino to kouvari to grizo fengari;
i, pyo makrya, sta livadhya tou
patera tou.
Pandou tha psachni sta livadhya, oli
ti nichta, opos epsachne kathe nichta
ya kati pou dhe bori na thimithi.
Anisichi pou dhe tha to vri pote
choris yalya.
Situation
His glasses are somewhere -- not here,
neither on his head
nor hung around his neck
nor on the table in the kitchen --
maybe thereon the windowsill, or under the olive
where the cat sleeps wrapped up like
that balloon the gray moon;
or farther, in the pasture of
his father.He'll search everywhere in the pasture, all
for something he can't remember.
night as he has searched every night
He worries that he will never find it
without glasses.
An dhite oti vriskete
sto cheri sas i kardhya tou
patera sas, ke pos chtipai:
epitichia sti dhoulya.
An onirevtite merminkya, tha
andimetopisete
tous tichous, akseperastous,
tou tafou sas. Mi fovithite.
An dhite pos ton arithmo
esvisan tou spityou sas
me ksirafakya, kegrapsan
kenourya dhyevthinsi eki,
thane proidhopiisi
oti tha taksidhepsete
ston Adhi; tha sinandisete
prosopo pou sas misouse.
An oti onireveste
malista tonirevtite,
to dheftero oniro tha vyi
pyo alithino ap ti zoi sas.
Ston ipno sas an perpatate
se dhromo tolo stromeno me
dhyamandya, omos dhen borite
na ta mazepsete: to proi
sigoura tha pethanete.
Ke prepi na ksipnisete.
I na bite sto trito oniro
tora me cherya adhyana.
Dreambook
If you see lying
in your hand the heart
of your father, and it beats:
success in work.If you dream ants
you will confront
the walls, unscalable,
of your tomb. Do not fear.If you see that the number
of your house has been erased
with razor-blades, and they have written
a new address there,it will be a foretelling
that you will travel
to Hades; you will meet
a person who hated you.If indeed you dream
that you are dreaming,
the second dream will turn out
truer than your life.If in your sleep you walk
on a street all paved with
diamonds, yet you cannot
pick them up: in the morningsurely you will die.
And you must wake up.
Or enter the third dream
now, with open hands.
- Charles O. Hartman