Nesreen

The tempting, dancing Nymph performs her chore,
unfolds in air, resplendently and splays
datura flow in mind her moves implore,
her vision passed.-  a wraith on thoughts, she stays.

Upon her altar sacrificial tolls,
her face, her scent, will challenge and indulge,
manipulates and in half light, enthralls,
ethereal to conquer and divulge.

Instinctive ancient dance, the crowd accourts,
she flows in veins, red aconite domain,
no fate will be as sweet - but one she thwarts -
as thousand lengths to feel of brunette mane.

And triumphant aggresses with applause,
(blade-splendid in her bedleh and shalwars) ,
unfolds her wings, a desert hawk that claws,
betrayed male minds with apathy ignores.

She dances, and her jingling cymbals rings
incursion of a deathly whiff and rye;
monotonous the Dervish siege she sings
for victims of her charm, eager to die.

© Georgios V. 08-25-2013 All rights reserved

elegant giraffes

He wondered if his verse was made for mules
or chickens cackling their jazzy tales;
composing dull sonnets was chased by bulls,
by elegant giraffes and crazy snails.

Amid the donkeys, in his country cot,
while gulping spirits the pig-farmer writes;
his scrawl becomes a cultivated naught
and straight he quaffs one more for his insights.

The detrimental muse of his confused
absconding inspiration, though, evades
poetics so much alcohol-abused
and drinking up the Absinth liquor, fades.

The prompting advent of a healthy burp
made pigs and chickens to comment 'superb'!

© 06-27-2013, G. Venetopoulos, All Rights Reserved
(English sonnet, Iambic pentameter

ghostly barque

ghostly barque

The seabirds fly amid the clouds
and all along fear naught to stray
accompany the autumn shrouds
that deference the rain's ballet.

Define me in their source of gray
where sky dimensions sting like thorns
with flash and thunder to convey
rain's irreversible each morn.

Beloved picture here returns
before me blooming glowing light,
some prominent September ferns
and primrose scents define the night.

Up there our songs recite above
obsidian glass of granite crags,
the scents and railleries of clove
and breezes, too, caress the grass.

Two forms are dancing on the field
evanescently feast in dark
the waves become their nightly shield
as they set forth their ghostly barque.

© Georgios Venetopoulos,08-12-2013 all rights reserved
(Iambic tetrameter)

Μαέστρος ΙΙ

Μαέστρος


Αερικό του ορεινού κι ατέλειωτου χορού
ασφάλτινος ο δρόμος ζωντανεύει·
εκεί που κατευθύνεται το διάβα του καιρού,
στου άπειρου τ' απέραντα ερέβη.

Κουβέρτα εβένινη νυχτός και πέταγμα του νού,
των φύλλων αγκαλιά τον σαβανώνει,
που γίνονται αλλόκοτη υπόσχεση κενού,
ο βρυχηθμός της μηχανής, παγώνει.

.............

Ιδανική χορεύτρια σε χρόνια αντικρινά
ωδή συγγράφει στης ζωής την άκρη
της πρωτινής αντάμωσης φορά τα γιορτινά,
και άνθηρα στου άνεμου το δάκρυ.

Και ο χορός τους λέγεται το τάνγκο του καιρού
επιταχύνουνε κι η νύχτα φεύγει
ασπάζονται τις αστραπές, στην άκρη τ' ουρανού
κι η θαλπωρή της μοναξιάς τούς στέργει.

..............

Οριακά, στα κόκκινα, ηχεί η μουσική
τετράχρονης στον παγωμένο δρόμο
βουνίσιο οδόστρωμα, των άστρων εθνική,
πια της ζωής του καταπάτησε το νόμο.

Ω! Πόσο τέλεια χορεύει κι είναι χθες,
μαέστρος, στροβιλίζεται στο χιόνι·
κι ακολουθεί του ουρανού, ιδανικές τροχιές
καθώς το πεπρωμένο του ανυψώνει.

Copyright 2015-01-16, G. Venetopoulos, All rights reserved
(Ίαμβος 14/11 συλλαβών)

Young lady Mary

Young  lady Mary walks on the meadowland
composing a romantic pentameter twixt
the sovereign trees, meantime the zephyr sound
and her Iambic knitting intermix.

So amorous, she paces on the ground,
where gracefully the butterflies romance,
divine her inspiration, in command,
requires in verse the nature's élégance.

Her carefree Alexia-dog is jumpsing round the trees
so blithely at the insects laughs and woofs,
the bees encounter blooms inside the breeze
and harvest nectar nighly and aloof.

Whate'er the maiden's inspiration forms
disperses round the flowers and the trees,
the dreamy pentameter, hence, transforms
to abstract lines the buzzing bees appease.

'Woof hither not, ungrateful doggy mine,
my lines' last syllables repose unstressed;
while thou art dancing round the blooms and pines,
I'll miss the deadline of the great contést.

Apollo, bless my metered création
and countenance me as thy designee
while I pronounce my heart's déposition
to be perpetually thy devotee.'

Marmalade upon the bread

Marmalade upon the bread   7
- yet not there alone -   5
tempts the birds to taste the spread
search the unbeknown.

Stood before them, overwrought,
- Poetry and Art -
clever efforts led to naught
sweetness to impart.

© 2015-04-07, G. Venetopoulos, All Rights Reserved
(Trochaic 7/5)

My Adiabatic Love

My Adiabatic Love

'My adiabatic love', she smiled;
event encountered in tales;
exclusive were our input trails,
anisotropic our directions, filed.

Our enthalpy dispersed out slow,
it was a process isentropic,
inlet and outlet states, endoscopic,
efficient in standard flow.

The binary vapor power regions,
reversibly worked, ecstatic;
two isothermal - two adiabatic,
thermal heat engines and conditions.

During the fluid standard cycles,
utmost availability was obtained,
the standard state was sustained,
touring forever on our cycles.

© 07-24-2012, Georgios Venetopoulos, All Rights Reserved