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My early unforgettable years I lived them
Close to the sea,
There by the shallow and calm sea,
There by the open and boundless sea.
And every time that my budding, early life
Comes back to me,
And I see the dreams and hear the voices
Of my early life there by the sea,
You, oh my heart, feel the same old yearning:
If I could live again,
Close to the shallow and calm sea,
There by the open and boundless sea.
Was it really my destiny, was it my fortune,
I haven't met another
A sea within me as shallow as a lake,
And like an ocean boundless and big.
And, lo! In my sleep a dream brought her
Close again to me,
The same there shallow and calm sea,
The same there boundless and open sea.
Yet, thrice be alas! A grief was poisoning me,
A powerful grief,
A grief that you did not lighten, my dream
Of my great early love, my home by the sea.
What storm, I wonder, was raging in me,
And what whirlwind,
That couldn't put it to rest, or lull it to sleep
My wonderful dream of my home by the sea.
A grief that is unspoken, an unexplained grief,
A powerful grief,
A grief not quenched even within the paradise
Of our early life close to the boundless sea.
MIA PIKRA (GRIEF) from Heartaches of the Lagoon By Kostis Palamas
Η πίκρα
Τὰ πρῶτα μου χρόνια τ᾿ ἀξέχαστα τἄζησα
κοντὰ στ᾿ ἀκρογιάλι,
στὴ θάλασσα ἐκεῖ τὴ ρηχὴ καὶ τὴν ἥμερη,
στὴ θάλασσα ἐκεῖ τὴν πλατιά, τὴ μεγάλη.
Καὶ κάθε φορὰ ποὺ μπροστά μου ἡ πρωτάνθιστη
ζωούλα προβάλλει,
καὶ βλέπω τὰ ὀνείρατα κι ἀκούω τὰ μιλήματα
τῶν πρώτων μου χρόνων κοντὰ στὸ ἀκρογιάλι,
στενάζεις καρδιά μου τὸ ἴδιο ἀναστέναγμα:
Νὰ ζοῦσα καὶ πάλι
στὴ θάλασσα ἐκεῖ τὴ ρηχὴ καὶ τὴν ἥμερη,
στὴ θάλασσα ἐκεῖ τὴν πλατιά, τὴ μεγάλη.
Μιὰ μένα εἶναι ἡ μοίρα μου, μιὰ μένα εἶν᾿ ἡ χάρη μου,
δὲν γνώρισα κι ἄλλη:
Μιὰ θάλασσα μέσα μου σὰ λίμνη γλυκόστρωτη
καὶ σὰν ὠκιανός ἀνοιχτὴ καὶ μεγάλη.
Καὶ νά! μέσ᾿ στὸν ὕπνο μου τὴν ἔφερε τ᾿ ὄνειρο
κοντά μου καὶ πάλι
τὴ θάλασσα ἐκεῖ τὴ ρηχὴ καὶ τὴν ἥμερη,
τὴ θάλασσα ἐκεῖ τὴν πλατιά, τὴ μεγάλη.
Κι ἐμέ, τρισαλίμονο! μιὰ πίκρα μὲ πίκραινε,
μιὰ πίκρα μεγάλη,
καὶ δὲ μοῦ τὴ γλύκαινες πανώριο ξαγνάντεμα
τῆς πρώτης λαχτάρας μου, καλό μου ἀκρογιάλι!
Ποιὰ τάχα φουρτούνα φουρτούνιαζε μέσα μου
καὶ ποιὰ ἀνεμοζάλη,
ποὺ δὲ μοῦ τὴν κοίμιζες καὶ δὲν τὴν ἀνάπαυες,
πανώριο ξαγνάντεμα κοντὰ στ᾿ ἀκρογιάλι;
Μιὰ πίκρα εἶν᾿ ἀμίλητη, μιὰ πίκρα εἶν᾿ ἀξήγητη,
μιὰ πίκρα μεγάλη,
ἡ πίκρα ποὺ εἶν᾿ ἄσβηστη καὶ μέσ᾿ τὸν παράδεισο
τῶν πρώτων μας χρόνων κοντὰ στὸ ἀκρογιάλι.
Καημοὶ τῆς Λιμνοθάλασσας, 1912
Photographed while exploring with Kiyoshi-san. Cambie Street, downtown Vancouver. September 13, 2019.
Με το τραγούδι της θάλασσας
και τη ζεστασιά του ήλιου μέσα στην καρδιά
.....ταξιδεύω προς την Ιθάκη!
Καλο Μηνα ευχομαι σε ολους με υγεια και μαγικες στιγμες!
With the song of the sea
and the warmth of the sun in the heart
..... I am traveling to Ithaca!
I wish you all a wonderful month full of joy and magical moments....!
Mit dem Lied des Meeres
und die Wärme der Sonne im Herzen
..... ich reise nach Ithaka!
Ιch wünsche allen ein schönen Monat voller Freude und zauberhafte Momente....!
Image from late June. I have a winter image from the same spot here:
www.flickr.com/photos/terjelm/51768991726/in/dateposted-p...
- Πάσχα το Ελληνικόν -
Greek Orthodox Easter under the Luminous Blue Sky.
The Blues of the Sky blended into the Sea,
Pure Sun rose
The Dawn of the Dawn,
He did not give up,He moved,
He Opened Hugs of Peace,
So sweet the breeze on the Face ...
Greek Easter blended with the Eternal Apollonian Light and the Delphic Idea of creating a World-wide Spiritual Nucleus capable of Regenerating Humanity from the Power of Love,Will,and Mind.
God Has No Religion,but we have,and we decided to have it with Dogmas.
Catholic Easter, 21st April, Passover from April 19 - April 27,
Greek Orthodox Easter, 28 April.
I feel like writing "Visual Poetry" on St. Nickolas' pure,white walls.
It's actually Shape or Concrete poetry,an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance.
Note the Shape of the Poem,Open the Wings of your Heart and ignore the dates ...
"Easter Wings"
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
Though foolishly he lost the same,
Decaying more and more,
Till he became
Most poore:
With thee
O let me rise
As larks, harmoniously,
And sing this day thy victories:
Then shall the fall further the flight in me.
My tender age in sorrow did beginne
And still with sicknesses and shame.
Thou didst so punish sinne,
That I became
Most thinne.
With thee
Let me combine,
And feel thy victorie:
For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
George Herbert - 1593–1633 - Poet and Priest of the Church of England
I can see your widespread wings.Can you see mine ?
The last word in life is not dearh,it's Resurrection ...
✿ڿ ♥ I intertwined Doctrine and Life,Colours and Light,and send you Spring Love & my best wishes for Spiritual Resurrection ♥ ✿ڿ
A few arches made out of marble are still standing strong even if it does not carry anything anymore. The town Aperiantos are more or less built up of marble stone.
Abasstreppas has the main model, i built the accessory (Lightbulbs etc.) so they look like the real thing.
Pronounced (Hell Yes).
Still in it's original paint scheme from when it was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea when it entered service for COSCO back in 2006. This Neopanamax ship looks great as it spends the week at Pacific Container Terminal after a transpacific journey that started at Ningbo, China nearly a month ago.
This ship wildly enough has it's own Wikipedia page for more info on this one check it out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSCO_Hellas
More of my greek serie........HUGS
Gaia ( /ˈɡeɪ.ə/ or /ˈɡaɪ.ə/; from Ancient Greek Γαῖα, a poetical form of Γῆ, "land" or "earth";[1] also Gaea, or Ge) was the goddess or personification of Earth in ancient Greek religion,[2] one of the Greek primordial deities.
Bentonite, perlite, pozzolana and small quantities of kaolin are actively collected via strip mine or open-pit mine techniques in Milos and sold all over the world. In the past, baryte, sulfur, millstones and gypsum were also mined; in fact, Pliny notes that Milos was the most abundant source of sulfur in the ancient world.[8] In ancient times the alum of Milos was reckoned next to that of Egypt (Pliny xxxv. 15 [52]). The Melian earth was employed as a pigment by ancient artists. Milos was a source of obsidian during the Neolithic ages for the Aegean and Mediterranean.
The gastraphetes (Ancient Greek γαστραφέτης, lit. 'belly-bow') was a handheld crossbow, used by ancient Greeks. It was described in the first century AD by the Greek author Heron of Alexandria in his work Belopoeica (Ancient Greek Βελοποιικά, 'on catapult-making'). It is believed to have been invented around 400 BC.(Landels, 1978, p. 99-100)
The weapon was powered by a composite bow. It was cocked by resting the stomach in a concavity at the rear of the stock and pressing down with all strength. In this way considerably more energy can be summoned up than by using only one arm of the archer as in the hand-bow.
There are no attestations through pictures or archaeological finds, but the description by Heron is detailed enough to have allowed modern reconstructions to be made.
A larger version of the gastraphetes were the oxybeles, which were used in siege warfare. These were later supplanted by the early ballistae that later also developed into smaller versions supplanting also the gastraphetes.
[edit] In modern culture
Gastraphetes appears in the Square Enix tactical RPG Final Fantasy Tactics. It is mistranslated as Gastrafitis and is the strongest crossbow in the game. It appears in Final Fantasy XII for PS2 once again as the strongest crossbow.
In Microsoft's Age of Mythology, Gastraphetes appear as a unit trainable only by Hades. They wield a crossbow and are very powerful, having few weaknesses.
A Gastraphetes also appears in the MMORPG Lineage 2. However, it is not a crossbow in the game. [from wikipedia].
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