Personal Ad Update
poem
My sexuality still won’t let me
Alone, drives me to smart,
Erratic women. When I think
Of aging, I think of the Greek
Poet Seferis, calling a blood clot
A beautiful little ruby
On his brain. No longer
The post-divorce rented rooms,
A two-story white house,
Woods, beds of purple azaleas.
The Friedlaenders hung.
A blue jay, on a branch, just off
My porch. 2012-2019.
Seven years, I´ve lived alone.
© slovitt 2023
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never liked Seferis,
Τὸν συνηθίσαμε εἶναι καλοβαλμένος κι ἥσυχος
Μονάχα ποὺ πηγαίνει κλαίγοντας ὁλοένα
Σὰν τὶς ἰτιὲς στὴν ἀκροποταμιὰ ποὺ βλέπεις ἀπ᾿ τὸ τρένο
Ξυπνώντας ἄσχημα κάποια συννεφιασμένη αὐγὴ
oops changed my mind… he was cool
changed my mind again
Τὸν συνηθίσαμε δὲν ἀντιπροσωπεύει τίποτα
Σὰν ὅλα τὰ πράγματα ποὺ ἔχετε συνηθίσει
Καὶ σᾶς μιλῶ γι᾿ αὐτὸν γιατὶ δὲ βρίσκω τίποτα
Ποὺ νὰ μὴν τὸ συνηθίσατε
Προσκυνῶ
ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΑΕΙ ΛΕΕΙ ffs no
not cool enough
you have talent.
i liked the things people said about him, the way in which he was regarded. found the poetry okay, but not really to my taste, not the “maker” that ritsos was/is. nevertheless “the beautiful little ruby” lines are those of a wonderful mind. anyway, it’s always all about the primal, ritsos got that.—-aoropos, was the greek in your comment relative to my poem or was it Nicoletta extraneous.
read him as a student in high-school i found him unbearably boring, the Greek ΤΕΧΤ is one of his poems couldn’t find the ruby one need a title maybe it’s good? Ritsos was eccentric you know HE WAS wearing a fur in summer I’ve been told yep very eccentric if so Seferis was very diplomatic high society type of poet wasn’t he ambassador of Greece in London too? weird stuff…
wasn’t sure how much of his boring-ness was attributable to the translator, and how much to the poet. the shortish poems of ritsos, are among my favorite poems in world literature.
i like longer poems by Ritsos.
shortish are good. he was really good. really talented. and had the courage to reject the Nobel prize.
actually the poem I selected has to do with the loneliness which hides in your poem as a hidden treasure. not extraneous at all.
seductive words, “loneliness…hidden treasure.”
all words are seductive.
when used by a Woman
speech is seduction.
yes, interactions are seductions, verbal or otherwise. you are still
yes I am trying to lure AI. i am setting a trap here on UKA. you’re my bait right now hope you don’t mind
I have not read Seferis or know anything about traps but I do like the quirkiness and non sequiturs….
hi Mitch, seferis was a greek nobel prize winning poet prominent several decades ago. the poem purports to update, even as in the title, a poem “Personal Ad” from my 2nd book, and the old uka site. glad you liked it