Confused Poems

[pelegrino]

I just throw in here whatever comes that I cannot properly understand or categorize otherwise.
If you read any, feel free to tear anything and everything to pieces. Or write your own incomprehensible stuff.

 

[pelegrino]

Hph 6294: The Difference

LEMONIA ===> THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN

ALATSI & AVRA 4-5/10/2016

HPH 6294: THE DIFFERENCE
(That Endless Negation - a sequel to EDELTRAUD ==> "ALL-DRUNK")

That endless negation
that was in my guts
was due to a tension
that's driven me nuts.

No woman would enter
to claim possession,
with you in the centre,
defying comprehension.

But time was passing
and change was due,
the drink was back-lashing,
destroying the blue.

"BIG BLUE", what a seaside,
romantic, cool bar,
pure lust my inside
and whiskey in the jar.

Without regretting
I lost all my battles,
each night forgetting
bells, whistles and rattles.

One night I surrendered,
a fuck is a fuck,
but still you were centred,
she didn't have much luck.

She loved me with passion,
I fucked her with care,
also some compassion,
as if you weren't there.

*****

Two years it lasted,
did you mean revenge,
last night you were basted,
my chicken free-range.

This is a new year,
the past won't come back,
I feel in the clear,
enjoy your fuck.

*****

HPH 6294…
that's a Greek number plate,
it reads
ETA RO ETA six two nine four
and I think I know this fucking red car
even in the dark,
it went some twenty minutes ago,
it even said "goodnight" to me,
how the hell is it still here?
What does it mean?

When we don’t write poems,
sometimes,
poems are writing themselves:
01:45 Thank you for the conversation. I needed it.
01:55 You are welcome

Eta Ro Eta
ke trecha zita (so, run and seek)
efaghes ita? (did you meet defeat?)

I suppose the "R" is one of the many in "Eros",
(I comment Elytis to everyone),
but the two Eta?
How do we account for them?
Double defeat?
One then and another one tonight?
Once is bad luck,
twice is carelessness,
(just to misquote Oscar Wilde).

Anyhow,
If I had not received the above sms
I would not have replied,
and I'm replying:
What's the difference
between one fuckbuddy
and another?
For me to know,
for you to guess,
I suppose.

After Edeltraud fell
out of love with me,
she remained my fuckbuddy
for a year or so.
I never stopped loving her,
probably I never will,
that's the difference.


Note: Eta = seventh letter of the Greek alphabet - a long vowel in Greek but consonant in Latin, sounds the same as "etta" meaning defeat.

Ήτα
Ήττα

 

[Magnetron]

May we parody?

That endless negation
that was in my guts
was due to a tension
that's driven me nuts.

No woman would enter
to claim possession,
with you in the centre,
defying comprehension.

But time was passing
and change was due,
the drink was back-lashing,
destroying the blue.

That endless sensation
felt everywhere in butts
is due to suspension
of dangling nuts

Yet no woman would enter
to examine my prostrate
Be the closest thing in years
to me being on a date

Butt gas was passing
Her face turning blue
from holding one's breath
when my IBS blew

 

[pelegrino]

A good one Mag!
A shag 's a shag,
that's what I'm saying,
better keep it strait
rather than risk prostrate.

(fucking politics again, it's not my fault)

 

[pelegrino]

Athens Riot 3/10/2016

LEMONIA ===> NEEDS CAREFUL CONSIDERATION FOR TITLES AND TAGS
( THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN-MAYBE INAPPROPRIATE)

AVRA 3/10/2016

ATHENS RIOT 3/10/2016

They fought against Adolph,
against Benito,
to save their country,
many of them died fighting,
in the end they did save the country,
the survivors of that generation,
80-90 years old,
can you believe it?
are rioting in Athens!

(CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO RIOT POLICE OFFICERS)

- They riot…
- Hit them with clubs,
then throw tear gas at them.
- But they're eighty years old,
hardly dangerous…
- So fucking what?
Our orders are to hit them
and throw tear gas!
- That's not what
riot police are for,
to hit old age pensioners
claiming their pensions.
- Who said so?
- The prime minister.
- Sorry, I have my orders
from the chief of police.
- And him from the minister
of public order…
- And him from the P.M…..
- That's what I'm saying…
- ?
- ?

 

[mLa2123000195]

Two Different

Amaya's a doll, she chews on her Skittles
that roll out her dimples and sparkle her eyes
Her teeth blush the trees as they cut through the keys that squeeze juice
from a snowflake that sees her surprise

 

[pelegrino]

Amaya's a FAT doll, she chews on her Skittles
that roll out her dimples and sparkle her eyes
Her teeth blush the trees as they cut through the keys that squeeze juice
from a snowflake that sees her surprise

!!!
this description suits my (incomprehensible) purposes if I add just one word, which I've already added.
thanks and sorry for the misquote.

 

[pelegrino]

Alatsi 2016/1

LEMONIA ===> THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN

ALATSI 2016/1

It changed its old name to "Alatsi",
since then it is for me amari cazzi,
where games cannot be played anymore,
its ugliness by day is augmenting,
its dreaminess by night is lamenting,
my ghost and yours still haunt this bitter shore.

I will not let its bitterness to touch you,
or other female with her love to much you,
for you it will remain a summer blast,
its truest songs I wrote in the beginning,
the rest of them you'll find without meaning,
and maybe I will make this song its last.

I wrote of its routines and dirty habits
for all the hopeless multiplying rabbits,
who tried to intrude and made me sick,
it is too hard the present to describe,
I'm tired of every human tribe,
I only keep your dream, to that I stick.

I will be coming back for solid reasons,
invisible like you, throughout the seasons,
our teasing and our loving carries on,
the land already sold to foreign bankers,
demolishing all efforts by all wonkers,
one of these days I'll call you on the phone…

Amari cazzi = bitter cocks: Italian colloquialism meaning an unviable situation.

 

[mLa2123000195]

I'm sorry, it ruins the imagery. Then again, my taste is questionable.

 

[pelegrino]

Alatsi 2016/2

LEMONIA ===> THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN

ALATSI 2016/2

I came back from Heraklion Thursday night,
I went for coffee Friday afternoon,
I felt it weird, like something was not right,
we had fine weather and almost full moon.

Quarter to six, this place should be serving,
I did not see a soul all around,
that silence, that ugliness, unnerving,
our apparitions forming the back ground.

No coffee, no raki, no passing Germans,
(hotels are all-inclusive in this shore),
just the sea breeze repeating endless sermons,
I thought it meaningless to ask for more.

*****

I wondered what had happened to Vassili,
Canella was about, so I did ask,
she did not answer cause she thought it silly:
a human asks a dog, what useless task!

Ok Canella, I was only passing,
I'm going now, I have got your drift,
perhaps I should be cunning more than fussing,
I am not so, but not for lack of gift.

I know what has happened to this place,
I even know what will happen next,
there's nothing that its truth can hide its face,
good buy Canella, now girl, don’t be vexed.

 

[pelegrino]

Tramontana Blue

LEMONIA ===> THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN

AVRA PALM
Tuesday afternoon
18/10/2016

TRAMONTANA BLUE

"Tramontana blue",
Ari named it so,
having no clear clue
for today's show.

Feel this trans-montagna,
coming through the mountains,
stops prospecting bagna,
freezing high-hill fountains?

Made the Libyan cold
and I'll miss my swimming,
tales still unfold
as I am day-dreaming.

Tramontana blue!
An interesting thought,
neither I, nor you,
then again, why not?



foreign words
Tramontana = north wind
montagna = mountain
trans-montagna = through the mountain
bagna = swimmings (my own translation-just for the rhyme)

 

[pelegrino]

Alatsi 2016/3

LEMONIA ===> THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN

AVRA PALM
Tuesday evening
18/10/2016

ALATSI 2016/3

The light slowly goes dark,
I hear Canella's lonely bark,
I take a photo of my car,
looks like departing, going far.

(interpose photo 1)

I turn my car and face east,
beside it another beast,
I take a photo of both cars,
just for comparing some old scars.

My car looks old but pure and clean,
the other beast is full of sin,
good bye, smart dame, you've made a choice,
fat chance that you should find a voice!

*****

But why my car is pure and clean?
I never fucked with you in there,
only committing pure love's sin,
with no one else I could compare.

On its reclining front seat,
or for more comfort in the back,
no other lover could I meet,
except the one who was pure fuck!

You were not her, so how could I … ?
Your limits could not take me far,
a fuck's a fuck, that's not a lie,
the same way a car's a car.

(interpose photo 2)

A car's a car,
they are both white,
no sign of scar,
we were both right.

 

[pelegrino]

Dedicational Etymology

LEMONIA ===> THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN

AVRA PALM
Wednesday afternoon
19/10/2016

DEDICATIONAL ETYMOLOGY

ΘΑΛΑΣΣΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ - (THALASSOGRAPHIA) = in painting it means a sea scape, in music it could mean a piece like Debussy's "La Mer", or even a sea shady.
(name proposed for a sea side tavern but withdrawn by its author on detection of absence of good taste).


ΑΛΣ - (ALS) = Sea, also salt (Homeric Greek)

ΑΛΑΤΙ - (ALATI) = Salt (in modern Greek - so far, so good)

ΑΛΑΤΣΙ - (ALATSI) = Salt (in local Cretan dialect - name already patented by other people for the same purposes, therefore legal action could be taken against the present case)

Now,
it sounds strangely Italian to my ears,
if I spell it as "alaci",
let me try…

a laci
(hmmm)

a Laci (?)
that looks better,
provided that
there exists a family
called Laci
(I know some Greek ship owners from Katakolon going by that name),
it could mean:
to the Laci (!)

Still, I don’t think
that was the original intention
of the name givers
(god fathers, to be more precise).

I know,
it's cryptic!

No connection with sea,
or sea scapes,
or salt,
or cooking,
whatsoever.
(or with the Laci family).

They only wished
to refer to themselves,
to describe themselves,

…..(!), (?), (!)

very good, my dear sirs,
and to the point!

It only required one alteration,
that of changing middle "e"
to middle "a".
Ingenious, I say!
(applauding).

a Letsi !!!
(I shushed you out, mother fuckers).

a Leci - (αλέτσι)
(misspelled as "aletsi")
=
to the letsi,

Letsi - (Λέτσοι - modern Greek slang for dirty, squalid, in short the scum of this earth).

(with appropriate scientific indifference)
DEDICATED TO THE SCUM OF THIS EARTH



Snobbish note:
The above etymology has not pretention to poetry whatsoever, but was considered necessary for the erudition of the uncultivated classes frequenting that place, its management, and of course to make this dedication possible.

 

[pelegrino]

Chemical Spray

LEMONIA ===> THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN

AVRA PALM
Wednesday evening
19/10/2016

CHEMICAL SPRAY

The sky today was blue
(to start with),
the sea was also blue
(that's underneath).

The jets above were flying,
but on the Earth
the human race was trying
to keep its mirth.

The jets above were spraying
poison and led,
the people just were praying
not to be fed.

The spray spread in patterns
not like the clouds,
the stars are now lanterns
in billion crowds.

The human crowd convicted,
asphyxiated,
to face books addicted,
secured, castrated.

*****

I 've never seen the sky like today,
what mixture was contained in that spray?

 

[pelegrino]

Halfalarmhalfhypnotizing

AVRA
SATURDAY EVENING
24/9/2016

HALFALARMHALFHYPNOTIZING

The atmosphere tonight
is positively unappetizing,
around, every sight,
is half-alarm - half-hypnotizing.

The rarest eastern weather
his chilly smile is just blowing,
and takes me like a feather,
if I pretend I'm in the knowing.

My music will endure it,
a bottle of raki keeping up my zest,
but if it cannot cure it,
at least I'll say that I did my best.

Good evening beast of passion,
we were too clean for any lesser times,
now it's out of fashion,
like jazz or rock or some medieval rhymes.

Good evening Hajidaki,
among my teachers your uniqueness,
promptly brings the first raki,
and camouflages any weakness.

…
Διώξε τη λύπη παλληκάρι,
πάμε μια βόλτα στο φεγγάρι.
…

Tonight I'll be expecting,
the midnight moon will just be rising,
the night bisecting,
still halfalarmhalfhypnotizing.

Apologies grandfather,
but you would understand,
the melodies I gather
belong to just one brand.

They are all Asian made,
your songs would not fit in,
perhaps with them I'll fade,
since I cannot begin.

 

[pelegrino]

FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY (greek birthday wish)

ΦΟΥΡΝΟΣ "ΤΟ ΧΩΡΙΑΤΙΚΟ"
Patision Avenue
Athens
Tuesday evening
6/12/2016

ΕΚΤΟΣ ΡΕΠΕΡΤΟΡΙΟΥ ΘΙΑΣΩΝ

Όπως πριν δύο χρόνια, καλή ώρα,
ψώνισα για Χριστούγεννα τα δώρα,
επίσης και για τα γενέθλιά σου,
γίνεσαι επτά και ζείς με τη μαμά σου!

Δεν χόρτασα την όψη σου σαν νήπιο,
τέσσερα χρόνια μ' έχουν κάνει ήπιο,
ο δίκαιος θυμός μου έχει φύγει,
σας στέλνω δώρα κι' η καρδιά μου ανοίγει!

Έχω παρηγοριά μου αυτό μόνο,
να στέλνω δώρα όπως κάθε χρόνο,
στου κόσμου το φαιδρό φρενοκομείο,
αν έρθουν, μπράβο στο ταχυδρομείο!

Χρόνια Πολλά για τα γενέθλιά σου,
σεβάσου και αγάπα τη μαμά σου,
εκτός ρεπερτορίου των θιάσων,
Χρόνια Πολλά σου, γιέ, Μίλων-Ιάσων!

(ρεφραίν ?)
Χρόνια Πολλά σου,
ζείς με τη μαμά σου,
Χρόνια Πολλά σου,
ζώ με τη γιαγιά σου.

 

[JoanneA]

LEMONIA ===> THE THEORY OF A FORGOTTEN (BLACK) CARDIGEN

ALATSI 2016/1

It changed its old name to "Alatsi",
since then it is for me amari cazzi,
where games cannot be played anymore,
its ugliness by day is augmenting,
its dreaminess by night is lamenting,
my ghost and yours still haunt this bitter shore.

I will not let its bitterness to touch you,
or other female with her love to much you,
for you it will remain a summer blast,
its truest songs I wrote in the beginning,
the rest of them you'll find without meaning,
and maybe I will make this song its last.

I wrote of its routines and dirty habits
for all the hopeless multiplying rabbits,
who tried to intrude and made me sick,
it is too hard the present to describe,
I'm tired of every human tribe,
I only keep your dream, to that I stick.

I will be coming back for solid reasons,
invisible like you, throughout the seasons,
our teasing and our loving carries on,
the land already sold to foreign bankers,
demolishing all efforts by all wonkers,
one of these days I'll call you on the phone…

Amari cazzi = bitter cocks: Italian colloquialism meaning an unviable situation.

Hmmm... is that a swear word? I like it.

 

[pelegrino]

The swear expression is really “cazzi amari” (cocks bitter), as used in Italian and I like it also
Here it is used in the opposite way for rhyming reasons, but it is also the general title of a collection of some old songs by me.

 

[cascadiabound]

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