Sometimes I wonder how am I suppose to
live with my anxious self
I cannot spare the sea that’s obvious
And I cannot escape from the malicious
Boredom of life
I also cannot live without my loneliness
And that is fine in some way
Because I am looking for stars in the
roads
And I only realize the full absence of stars
from the walking avenues
The sky believe what I am saying but he
insist to keep the stars on his body
like a holy tattoo
and that is fine in some way
because I certainly don’t want to see the
stars under the lost footsteps
of the avenues forgotten pioneers
Sometimes I wonder how am I suppose
To built the ship of my destiny
How am I suppose to fit the lyrics
With my poem
Unfortunately I don’t have the answer
And this tell me that maybe I cannot
finish the ship which can take me to the
land of tomorrow
Sometimes a blind poet come into my dreams
And try to make me one of his lyrics
He realize of course that I cannot sing
and he also knows that I cannot be a poet
but he also knows that I could give
everything
if I could be the Ulisses of my life
even for a minute
if I could follow the road for my
Ithaki…
CHRISTOS HARATSARIS
POET-ARTIST PAINTER
ATHENS-GREECE
May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019 at 6:33 AM UTC
ΤHE YOUTH ROOM
You went back to the youth room
and you wondered
which whims did not let you get as far as you could
which fears and disappointments did not let you mark your own destination with your compass
It is not only one Ithaca
not only one destination
why did not you come back like a ghost one night why you borrowed your dreams from the deads
Every night you hear the ship that sails
Why you never search the sailor who longed to look with your eyes
and to measure the loneliness of the deep ocean
You went back to the youth room
and you wondered why you did not paint the path you deserved, but you let the boredom and the everydayness smother a small alley with a half-
an alley to walk
an alley to get lost ...
May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019 at 6:31 AM UTC
You went back to the youth room
and you wondered
which whims did not let you get as far as you could
which fears and disappointments did not let you mark your own destination with your compass
It is not only one Ithaca
not only one destination
why did not you come back like a ghost one night why you borrowed your dreams from the deads
Every night you hear the ship that sails
Why you never search the sailor who longed to look with your eyes
and to measure the loneliness of the deep ocean
You went back to the youth room
and you wondered why you did not paint the path you deserved, but you let the boredom and the everydayness smother a small alley with a half-
an alley to walk
an alley to get lost ...
Oct 5, 2017
Oct 5, 2017 at 2:07 PM UTC
THE UNDEFINED POEM
I ask you ask they ask
We ask the same questions
And we demand the same answers
But how can we demand for answers
From whom
We are dust in the wind
And shadows in the desert
And words in an undefined poem
We don’t understand his language
We don’t understand his rhyme
We don’t understand his rhythm
But we suppose must sing it
We must scream with it
We must scream for life and light
And for light in life
Its difficult for a common people like
everyone of us
to elevate in the sky with this poem
but its difficult also to elevate in the sky
without this poem
The eternal flame
The eternal fog
The eternal everything
The eternal nothing
“I am not sure about what I say
But I speak that’s for sure”
These are words of this undefined poem
The poem speak I speak you speak
everybody speaks
the poetry of ignorance or the ignorance
of poetry
No rules just delays and various
Meanings
The poem is undefined and infinite
The problem is
That all of us as words of this poem
We are not infinites
So the poem goes on without us…
CHRISTOS HARATSARIS
POET
ATHENS-GREECE
Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 10:27 AM UTC
SOMETIMES
Sometimes I wonder how am I suppose to
live with my anxious self
I cannot spare the sea that’s obvious
And I cannot escape from the malicious
Boredom of life
I also cannot live without my loneliness
And that is fine in some way
Because I am looking for stars in the
roads
And I only realize the full absence of stars
from the walking avenues
The sky believe what I am saying but he
insist to keep the stars on his body
like a holy tattoo
and that is fine in some way
because I certainly don’t want to see the
stars under the lost footsteps
of the avenues forgotten pioneers
Sometimes I wonder how am I suppose
To built the ship of my destiny
How am I suppose to fit the lyrics
With my poem
Unfortunately I don’t have the answer
And this tell me that maybe I cannot
finish the ship which can take me to the
land of tomorrow
Sometimes a blind poet come into my dreams
And try to make me one of his lyrics
He realize of course that I cannot sing
and he also knows that I cannot be a poet
but he also knows that I could give
everything
if I could be the Ulisses of my life
even for a minute
if I could follow the road for my
Ithaki…
CHRISTOS HARATSARIS
POET
ATHENS-GREECE
Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 8:40 AM UTC
WHAT IS LOVE FOR A STATUE
I can see through your land
Through your sea and your horizon
But what I see I don’t know
Are you a woman or a statue
Your hair are made of loneliness
Your eyes are made of centuries
Your blood is made of stars
You are so far but yet so distant
You skirt me sometimes
Because I think that you steel my ability
To look with my inner eyes
But the worst is that you control me
So much and I cant recognize myself
Are you a spirit of love or a misery
Yet
I can see through your land
Through your sea and your horizon
But I cant understand why you left me
Forgotten in an empty road
Why you ignore my footsteps
Why your chains hold me tight
In your anything except love
What is love for a statue
What is love for a creature which his
blood is made of stars
the philosopher cries
cause he can say by sure what are you
as I can see you are something between
a woman and a statue
you have the beauty of a woman
and the hardness of a statue
you are made of flesh and marble
you are made to cause tears and fears
to your lovers
but how can anybody make love with a
statue
how can anybody be a woman and a
statue in the same time
I can see through your land
Through your sea and your horizon
But I still wonder what I see
What are you and what I am
To insist loving you
But mainly I still wonder
What is love for a statue
CHRISTOS HARATSARIS
POET
ATHENS-GREECE
Sep 30, 2017
Sep 30, 2017 at 1:32 PM UTC
FORGET THE FAIRYTALES
Leafes believe the fairytales of the wind
And blows away
Remember to forget the fairytales
Waves believe the fairytales of the land
And loose the sea
Remember to forget the fairytales
Fairies believe the fairytales of the moon
And loose their winds
Remember to forget the fairytales
Desert believe the fairytales of the
shadow and become illusion
Remember to forget the fairytales
Sky believe the fairytales of the earth
And loose the sun
Remember to forget the fairytales
Books believe the fairytales of the truth
And loose their language
Remember to forget the fairytales
Childrens believe the fairytales of the
adults and loose their childhood
Remember to forget the fairytales.
CHRISTOS HARATSARIS
POET
ATHENS-GREECE
Sep 30, 2017
Sep 30, 2017 at 9:27 AM UTC
COMMON WORDS
Common everyday words
Meaningless words of nothing
Overused shadows in a blind world
We have to escape from them
We have to reinvent another worldwide language
Meaningless words
Meaningless peoples
They frightened us
Because they belong to the ugliness
We frightened them
Because we believe in beauty
We are threat for them because we
Believe in a new language
In a Human language
For Humanity
In a language made of light
In a language made of love and beauty
In a language made of Poetry
Common everyday words
They refuse us
We refuse them
CHRISTOS HARATSARIS
POET
ATHENS-GREECE
Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017 at 8:02 AM UTC
NOBODY
I am nobody
I am a king without a throne
A garden in the desert of a tree
Who knows where I come from
Who knows where I go
Who knows why I spare my dreams for nothing
I am everything and nothing
A cloud beyond the rain
A rain beyond the cloud
Maybe one day I can feel my nature
Maybe one day I can understand
Why I act and live so different from myself
Why I live my life like a stranger
And become a blank message
In an empty bottle
I feel so sad
Because I am nobody
Nobody like anyone else
CHRISTOS HARATSARIS
POET
ATHENS-GREECE
Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017 at 8:00 AM UTC