lemonpie dreams

i've never tasted one but they sound delicious

Thursday, November 30, 2006

MORE POETRY

Gap

A dress itself
Or a well- ironed shirt
You see, doesn’t
Exactly work

A drive
With the car
You’ll never be able
To afford

A dream
About the person
You are never again
Meant to hold

Are you up
Looking down
In any hole?
You may find your soul
You may see your soul

Are you up
Waving the water
That fills the hole?
You may see your life
Being out of control

Stuff the gap
Generations before shaped
You are sad
You’re just not blind

Stuff as you can
The wound from being betrayed
You’re just mad
You’re not out of your mind

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

SHE'S BEEN TO OLYMPICS

Today I met an Olympics championship… I thought I should write this…. It’s not happening everyday, nevertheless. And yeah, I guess I felt admiration towards her. I think she was kind of shy when the manager of my office introduced her to all of us working there. She was very unpretentious and good- looking also.

Monday, November 27, 2006

WEEKEND

I spent this passed weekend at Thessaloniki, which is the second largest city in Greece after Athens. There were so many things we could do during those couple of days and as it happens when there are many options, we only managed to do the half.
So, my friend’s and mine exodus involved a visit at the mall, a cool cloudy afternoon hanging at a cafeteria, a visit at the place where the international annual cinematographic festival takes place and a visit to the museum of contemporary art and the gallery where the photographs of German’s director’s Wim Wenders are hanging for a week I guess, already.
This exhibition of photos I’m talking about was really interesting and they were in fact still images of moving pictures. Anyway, sadly we missed two gigs from Juliet Lewis and the Licks on Saturday and from Morrissey this very night, both I guess exquisitely worth seeing but I’ll skip this.Apart from these, Sunday night was a movie night as it turned out… and we watched Babel…. This one was really great… Such a crafty director, I can’t recall his Spanish name, with so many things to say.
So, with no gigs nor clubbing it was a rather intellectual weekend. I guess the craziness was missing but so did the consistent hang over.

The following picture was taken on Friday… I had been seeing that derelict car for some days in the same place and I was thinking that with the wood factory behind it, looks like it’s from a different old era and deserves to be photograph so here it is…

Friday, November 24, 2006

Thursday is already yesterday but anyway

You only can tell

I know
There’s a song
I haven’t heard yet
But it’s really my favorite one

I know
There’s a poem
I haven’t read yet
But it’s speaks right to my heart

And the tree
I didn’t happen to come across to yet
But I’m amazed by how many big its roots are
That keeps it steady at the ground
Don’t tell me it’s not for real

And don’t tell me
That the view
I haven’t yet seen
Does not really exist

Because every time
I close my eyes
I can find myself there
Easily, again and again

Monday, November 20, 2006

A short story I wrote

Eye contact



An odd urban tale

During an era, a strange contagious virus launched its deadly action in one of the most highly- populated cities of the world. Its potency was so radical that it managed to utterly annihilate its residents within a few days. Its spread extended to the next city and later on to the next one. It didn’t take more than a week and the entire expanse of the Western civilization was being endangered by that new and sudden threat.
Its high- scaled impact was so unexpected and unprecedented that the scientists from all around the world, decided to unite their knowledge and their skills for the first time in the chronicles, in order to find a quick and effective fix for that inexplicable predicament.
Transfers and contacts between the ill Westerners and the unaffected population of the Eastern world were prohibited. Airplanes and boats anchored in land and the economic world collapsed in the same way a child’s tower in the sand falls apart, when the first wave inundates it, due to the cruel but –must say- necessary restricts.
At that time, people were living in panic. It was hard for them to integrate the frequent spectacle of the dead bodies being lied down on the streets and the subways, or the pavements and nearly everywhere else, in their everyday routine. In that mess, not all dead could get buried (some even didn’t have relatives or friends to seek for their corpses) and every city was using the same procedure to get rid of the supernumerary bodies. A few drains of a brown liquid made from a combination of chemical elements were the magic filter, able to decompose the human flesh within two seconds or less from the time it would come in contact with it. It was so toxic and so effective on burning, or to put it better, on vanishing the lifeless flesh but unpleasant smells weren’t occurring. If you were present in the place and the time one of the many times the event was repeated, you would feel like what you had just watched was something almost magical. The body was disappearing in front of your eyes in a flick of a moment. As if it had never even been there in the first place! This may was even more shocking than the body itself. Perhaps if someone was in great hurry, he wouldn’t be able to know for sure if he had seen the “polish” or if he had just imagined it.
The virus’s last stop was the city where Jean and Jane had grown up and continued living. They were so young and so in love with each other but in no case they could be described as two careless youngsters, beside their great enthusiasm about their recently- built relationship. And how could they be careless when the whole universe and primarily (for them) their lives were in such great jeopardy…
Not many precautions could be taken so that they could feel safe from the danger, except one. The bizarre killing virus, whose identity and cause of birth was still remaining a riddle, was imparting from a people to the other through the contact of the eyes. Yes, quite odd, but in that epoch, way too many odd occurrences were taking part in general that this was not taken aback those people. Healthy men and women would get sick and eventually die in ten or eleven hours from the contagion and all this by looking in the eyes a contaminated person. No symptoms were visible during the left over space. They were just loosing their senses when the sly virus had reigned in every single cell of their blood.
One of those days, Jean came back home and before he get inside to the living- room, where Jane was watching the latest news about the goings- on of the pandemic that had crushed their city too, he told her very seriously and anxiously not to turn and look him in the eyes. Full of concern and probably by instinct, the woman turned her look straight to his. Possibly instinctively too, Jean had already covered it with his two hands only a flash of a moment before. Jean went on talking in this way, without removing his hands from his eyes and told to his lover that their neighbor and friend from the next apartment, Todd, stopped breathing just before they both reach their destination stop at the subway. It was clear that he was affected and Jean was sure that he had too, since they had spent a lot of time, one sitting next to the other talking and it was inevitable to exchange a glance or two, despite the fear that was making everyone striving to avoid other people’s eyes at that time.
Upheaval occurred to the wagon right afterwards, since everybody around feared that they may had been affected by the dead man. If there was one to have the virus in his blood, everyone near him was a probable virus- carrier, as well.
The subway’s guards realized what had happened in that wagon only after all passengers had gone. That saved their lives because policemen and army forces were authorized to shoot everyone who was suspicious to carry the virus.
Jane took it for granted that her lover was affected but when at night he was still alive they both felt relieved and surprised. Naturally, they couldn’t see this to each other’s eyes because that would kill Jane but they both could feel it and could tell it. It was not logical why the virus hadn’t claimed his life, as it was happening with the rest of the affected people, but they both presumed that his blood was stronger than the virus, or at least enduring to it. Of course, a professional opinion could not be asked since they knew very well which would be Jean’s end if they would announce to a doctor that he was caring the virus.
At that same night a worldwide announcement was released through the total of the media. Scientists weren’t proved capable of finding the solution but the more practical minds did. People from every city the virus had made its appearance, were obliged to stay inside their houses for a day. If any person was being seen in a public place, it was proclaimed that he would get shot. Paradoxically or not, nor even one was shot by authored fires during that day.
This simple restriction appeared to be the most powerful of all actions against the pandemic. During that time, the affected got killed by the deadly molecule and the healthy ones didn’t come in contact with them. When the imposed curfew came to its end, the virus had died with its last carrier. A few days later, all that history seemed like a bad past joke which everyone seemed to had totally forgotten everything about it and all had returned back to their everyday routine again or at least they were pretending they had.
A year later and after their night out in the club they first met, Jean announced to Jane that he wanted to leave her. They had spent a year not seeing each other in the eyes (Jean had managed finely not to have eye contact with every person he was meeting at streets and everywhere else; fortunately, as time was passing by this was getting easier and easier) and this turned out to be more important than they both had though it would be, in the beginning. The lack of that kind of contact between them was the main reason that made Jean’s inner gaps and insecurities grow. He was feeling like he wasn’t sure if there was still alive the sense of trust and sincerity between them. It was like they were cursed to be near to each other but being like they were living miles apart. It was almost terrifying, to be so close but at the same time to be divided by an enormously huge space; because even though all of their feeling were poisoned, they were still remaining deeply in love. Jane was feeling the same way but she couldn’t possibly imagine herself apart from her partner. She tried to convince him think otherwise but he had already made his mind and they both knew that this couldn’t change.
Jean took his coat from the chair beside the door. He turned to say goodbye and at that moment he wished he never had. Jane looked him straight in the eyes, probably purposely, and as a natural reaction Jean looked her back. Everything they hadn’t said for a year was said just in that moment.
At night, Jane was the last victim of the virus and Jean a sad man.


End of story

Thursday, November 16, 2006

CHECK IN

Some time ago, I heard a song on the radio and I can't exactly recall the tune but it was saying I guess, about a blue hotel. I don't know if this a classic song, it sounded like one at least and I'm not going to do guessing cause if it's a really well- known song I'm not aware of it, I'll may feel kind of emparassed. So, if anyone knows about which song I'm talkning about, just let me know..
So, I thought I should write a poem about a blue hotel too, which you can read right down below...
I also knew what the prompt was all about and even though I had already decided that I would post this poem, I guess it fits if I'll add... I lie about the blue hotel.

Blue hotel

Blue hotel
Where people come and go
But never really leave
Blue hotel
Where drinks flow
Like high waterfalls
And music never seems to stop
Blue hotel
Where women mesmerize
Men with money inside
Their pockets
And have a certain price
For their meager fleeting kiss
Blue hotel
Where no one gets out of it unscathed
Blue hotel
Where no one gets less suffer than delight

Monday, November 13, 2006

LOST AND FOUND

Really glad, cause for some time I couldn't use my own PC due to some problems with the line I can't tell for sure since I'm totally ignorant when it comes to technology... but now it's working just fine (add this to the reasons I couldn't post as frequent as I wanted all this time).
So, right now, I guess I'll get the chance to post and for different reasons than the poetry... Not that the poetry itself isn't good enough but this is not all me...
At the moment I stay just with that, adding just that for the past couple of days I'm rapt with "Lost"... I know, I hate it when I spend time just watching DVD'S or the telly but don't you thik that this show deserves it...? I know it's not educative or constructive or anything, but although many of the programms we watch on the screen are ditasteful for me cause they just stupefy the viewers, not giving them the time to think about what they are watching, this makes me think and think what is might going on and what's it all about... OK it's not Nitche but at least it is something...

Thursday, November 09, 2006

COUNTDOWN

This poem is may not related with the prompt, but it is with my own previous post. In that, I may was joking a bit too, but what I tried to say, was that there are times you feel off your way or not loyal to yourself. The moment I wrote this poem, I didn’t have in my mind the “fooling yourself” thing, but back then, it was a period with a couple of misfortunate events and I wanted to create a shelter I could see nowhere at that time…
As it seems it fits for both of the situations

PS I know I said I woldn't write anything, at least for a little while, but in truth I actually haven't. There are still two poems left and they have been writen because of poetry Thursday and I'll participate until tey're all posted.



Some times

There are times
You might feel astray
And your only yearn is to get lost
In one of those millions of ballad songs

And there are times
You might feel off your way
And you only look for shelter
In one of those millions of happy ending tales

And you only know you walk this path
When you realize it’s pointless
To still hold as your grip
A moment that has passed

And you only know you’re in that path
When you realize your wish
From world stop spinning for a second
Was way too much to even ask

Monday, November 06, 2006

VARIATION

Doing one thing after the other, like almost a complete lunatic, doesn’t really allow me to have the proper time to just sit relaxed in front of this screen, like I do this very moment, and drop a line or two for my blog. Well, at all other occasions I should feel blessed, because I’m the one who always say that real life is where real people are and where you can really have actual experiences, interacting or just feeling a total dump incapable of tracking high- speed evolutions everything and everyone is following.
But the thing is, I really miss having a few moments to write anything here or to think what I should write about, and happily right now I have some. But I don’t know what to write about, so I’ll write just about anything that will cross my mind. Be ready I can be very impulsive….
So, first of all I want to make a comment about me blogging only for poetry Thursday lately. This may is good, cause otherwise I wouldn’t post about anything and I what's more, I also had to punch my head once or twice to get some ideas, which is tambien good, but I feel like my blog doesn’t represent me anymore… simply because I don’t feel like a poet, not even an amateur. I just write in occasions I want to express all that I feel, and though it’s such a personal procedure I’m glad I’ve shared it with the few people that have read them and I’m thankful for all of the kind words I got from time to time.
Despite for exchanging opinions with some people I wouldn’t in other ways and I have read some great pieces of works, I feel like I may won’t be able to participate for much longer. I mean, I have a couple of poems still reserved on my pc folders but after those, I don’t feel like I can write for some time. It’s already been some time I haven’t written anything and I feel like I took what I could from this mean of expression, I hope there were a couple of good outcomes also, and we both got a little bit tired from the “relationship’ we developed. It’s like when you go for “one night stand” and you keep seeing each other for a little more but then it gets more serious than what you had reckoned in the beginning and you are in the point where you either have to stop or see it with a different look… Anyway, I hope the flame will eventually come back and feel like writing again. Maybe I should give a chance to my stories I dropped all this time, or just write nothing for some time. Literature will get more beneficial if I’ll act in this way I guess. And I’ll just be fine going to the gym…
So, let me think… other than poetry… will this blog represent me more if I write random trivial things like for example … I got a new hair cut last Wednesday and I have my hair really short now but I love it, even though I feel my head cold when I walk at mornings for work? Or that, last Thursday was full of angst cause I had a presentation of my essay in the faculty but everything went fine and I really liked one of my examiners...? I gave her a compliment afterwards, she seemed like responding! Not the way come in my bed, but thanks you just earned an extra point…
Or would my blog become more “me”, if I wrote that I was so tired from everything during the whole last week and I spent Friday night as I should, which means I went to the movies…? I watched “devil wears Prada” and I think it was amusing by the way, or should I just write that it doesn’t matter what I should write or not, as long it reflects me and don’t feel like blogging is a waste of time…?
Ps I wish everyone reading this, if you feel like loosing yourself by doing something or for someone just leave it aside…

Thursday, November 02, 2006

THURSDAY'S CHILD

PORCELAIN

A porcelain young girl, woke up from her sleep
She had lost her pearl, in a well way too deep
Though this was only a dream, a dream that she had
The echo was vivid, it was an echo so sad

Her mom wore her robe on, and came in to see
As she had sensed the upheaval, her girl might had been
But her young girl was missing, she wasn't still there
And as if she was frozen, she left there to stare

But then she saw from the window, through the half- opened blind
Her girl walking drowzy, but her tread was leaving no hint
And when she eventually found her, looking down at the well
She noticed her bracelet, with the one missing pearl


Here it is one part of a poem I like
and it's writen by Joseph Conrand

Only a moment;
a moment of strengh,
of romance, of glamour,
of youth...
A flick of sunshine
upon a strange shore,
the time to remember,
the time for a sigh, and -goodbye!
 
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