[Chorus] I was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, alone and unceremoniously …Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, when life was taken from me [Verse 1] Our tree was full and green, I had to leave it The sadness was overwhelming, To be alone beneath it The sun came down hot and hard, I could never sleep To disappear was the...

    GREECE AND WE, THE GREEKS BORN AFTER THE II WORLD WAR, ARE VERY LUCKY BECAUSE  IN THE 1920’s A PLETHORA OF POETS (BELONGING TO THE SO CALLED 1st POST WAR GENERATION) WERE BORN. WE ARE ALSO EXTREMELY LUCKY THAT TWO OF THEM ARE STILL ALIVE AND KICKING: MR NANOS (ΠΟΥ ΤΟΝ ΕΧΟΥΜΕ ΣΤΑ ΩΠΑ ΩΠΑ HERE IN HELLENIC POETRY) AND TITOS PATRIKIOS.  ...

     IN THIS WEBPAGE WE CONTINUE WITH METAL MUSIC AND HELLENIC POETRY OF TWO POETS BORN IN THE SECOND DECADE OF THE 20th CENTURY. THESE ARE, TAKIS SINOPOULOS AND NIKOS GATSOS.       Nox Arcana: Night of the Wolf         1. TAKIS SINOPOULOS (1917-1981)   Greece’s Poet-Chronicler Takis Sinopoulos (1917-81): An Interview  (by E. D. KARAMPETSOS & DONALD D....

     IN THIS WEBPAGE WE PRESENT THE POEM “THE BURNING MAN” BY TAKIS SINOPOULOS, AND QUITE A FEW BURNING MEN, MOSTLY THIBETIAN MONKS. THERE HAVE BEEN NEARLY 150 SELF-IMMOLATIONS BY THIBETIAN LIVING IN “CHINA” SINCE A WAVE OF FIERY PROTESTS BEGAN IN 2009.   BUT FIRST LET US START WITH THREE MEDITERRANEAN BURNING MEN. A GREEK, A SYRIAN AND AN ITALIAN ONE.   IN...

   IN THIS WEBPAGE HELLENIC POETRY PRESENTS AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT AN INTERESTING POEM/POET: In 1941, in the face of horrifying devastation caused by indiscriminate aerial bombings by the Germans, the modern Greek poet Nikos Gatsos wrote from the immediate knowledge of someone who had witnessed the obliteration of a Greek village. He, too, went directly to the famous engraving and dedicated his poem,...