Χρήστος Ντικμπασάνης, Εξι Ποιήματα - Christos Dikbasanis, Six Poems

 

CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS-GREECE

ETERNAL PROMPT

Let's travel among the stars!

We will open a crack

in the darkness of eternal night

with the light of our love

We will let the waves of pleasure flow

like the juice of unripe grapes,

like a waterfall of foaming early lusts

that are about to spill out

in the river of our meeting

Let's walk

onto the stressed body of the asteroids

which for so many centuries collided

in our timid dreams

and they disappeared them indifferently!

Forget your fears

and your hesitations!

Imagine that we are two trilobites

which their union will inevitably lead

in the blooming of new seasons

Let's get lost in the vortex

of a bright, new creation!

CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS-GREECE

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REFUGE IN OBLIVION

They often come to mind

all that I craved

but I didn't have the courage to bring them to life

I usually take refuge in oblivion

but how to ban

in my mind and heart the memories?

They become beasts, monsters and dragons

and they are following me

without mercy, without pity,

without fatigue

I don't always succeed

to resist them and forget

They are relentlessly chasing me

They tear apart the colorful canvas

of oblivion and redemption

with their large sharpened claws

Then I give up myself

to their uncontrollable appetites

I no longer put up any resistance

I let them devour

my time and my soul

Then in the night

my moments become hell

I'm burning

of glowing stones

that the merciless memories throw at me,

punishing me

for I hesitated to give breath

to all that is precious, to all that is bright

and it was everything to me

DIKBASANIS CHRISTOS-GREECE

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HOPES OF REVIVAL

Years and years of anticipation painted

in our pale, wrinkled, sweaty faces

Years and years of Ioveia patience

inside our eyes sockets

Years and years of progress

among our dreams

and our expectations for an independence area

Free Besieged inside our cities

Prisoners of our doubts and universal seduction

Hope is the only refuge of our soul

Somewhere here in our hearts

there must have be a living, moving God

How to clean the skies

from the garbage of our vassalage?

How to get a new life?

How to build our new world?

How to rebirth our ancestral cradle?

Only by changing our mindset

will we establish our new life

without many questions and concerns

But only chants and prayers

we promised to our Gods

Where to set up the altar for the sacrifices

to our clean home?

How many more light years will we carry

our unholy fragility at the ends of the sky

without concessions and promises

for a painless new beginning?

How to put order a new beginning in our life?

How to force life to obey our wishes?

We still believe it like our soul and our purified earth

will restore our ruins again,

it will ease the pain in our crippled dreams

it will allow us to be born again

DIKBASANIS CHRISTOS-GREECE

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THE LITTLE CHILD

I didn’t make it yesterday

to seize the day by the hair

I woke myself up

little child in pain

from the foolishness of the world

I took it in my arms so it wouldn't cry

I comforted it

in the twilight of humanity

I covered it with a blanket of dreams

I sang to him about the years of love

who left us

but they will come back with their own hands

full of apologies and hope

for an auspicious tomorrow

I looked at his eyelids

that they were asking to imprison

the Morpheus in his eyes

I let it dream of future ages

without wars, machinations and crosses

DIKBASANIS CHRISTOS-GREECE

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PRAYER FOR BEGINNING

My prayer of relocations on other planet

today is in tears

Every fellow of mine

glorifies the last hour

that gives birth

to dreams,desires, expectations

Anyone who hasn’t sown hopes

he cannot reap

successful harvest We spread on the firmament

Our manly hands

full of flaming gifts

We taste the removal

of our technological wreckages

to other heavenly worlds

We start with momentum

for the immaculate dream

to make our cradle, the Earth,

sustainable again

DIKBASANIS CHRISTOS-GREECE

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THE INVITATION

Come up and be reborn with me, brother!

Give me your hand

from the deep Kuiper Belt,

from the distant constellation of Virgo

Climb up these elevated fields

of the exoplanets of hope

Leave hypochthonic time behind you

May your petrified voice regain its strength

May your pierced eyes be healed

You who once tamed

the wild waves of unreachable dreams

You who dared to raise gigantic temples

to adore perishable and impersonal deities

Get up here!

Take with you the chalice of a new life

BIOGRAPHY

Christos Dikbasanis is a poet, writer and scholar of religions. He was born in Thessaloniki in 1961, where he graduated from the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Master's Degree (MTh) in Religious Studies. His poems and essays have been presented in many literary magazines, print and electronic. Many of his poems have been dramatized by the theatrical groups. Also, Christos Dikbasanis has been included in the “GREAT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN GREEK LITERATURE of HARI PATSI “publications, as well as in the "WHO'S WHO" of journalists. He has participated with his texts in collective works and anthologies. He has been honored with important national and international awards.