Friday, 30 June 2017

As the roads curl before them, we're alone




Roam the gloaming of the highway
I'll follow your hesitant steps
Observing the hastening world beside us
I lean forward to slow you down

Nobody watches us from their glass boxes
The days are moving fast ahead
Shifting in between day and night
As the roads curl before them, we're alone

Hand out your troubles, give me your pain
I'll plant them next to the thorns in my veins
Tie your limbs to my crippled life
Hang on, I'll carry you around

Storms lay down and come to rest
Confusion returns to how it's always been
I let you replace the taste of my pain
With the comforting of your frail skin

Hand out your troubles, give me your pain
I'll plant them next to the thorns in my veins
Tie your limbs to my crippled life
Hang on, I'll carry you around



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Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom


Tzortz St., Athens, 24.03.2016



                                             Let me not to the marriage of true minds
                                             Admit impediments. Love is not love
                                             Which alters when it alteration finds,
                                             Or bends with the remover to remove:
                                             O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
                                             That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
                                             It is the star to every wandering bark,
                                             Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
                                             Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
                                             Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
                                             Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
                                             But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
                                                 If this be error and upon me proved,
                                                 I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Friday, 23 June 2017

Art and social protest: Words Fly Away | Söz Uçar


The short film Words Fly Away (Söz Uçar) was directed by Tufan Taştan and is based on a story by Barış Bıçakçı. It refers to Nuriye Gülmen, a professor of literature, and Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher, who are on hunger strike to protest against the dismissal from their jobs and have been arrested and detained by the police in Turkey, as well as to Veli Saçılık, a sociologist, who has also been dismissed and was attacked by the police and hit with dozens of plastic bullets while protesting.




Kitaplardan geliyorlar | They flourished from books
"Nuriye, Semih, Veli..."




Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Dream free, light the fire: Crisalida





The sea
Who cries the memories of your age
The voices that do not stop screaming
Ancestral Patagonia ...
Dream free
Light the fire
That the birds fly next to you
Woman
Black-eyed girl sleeps without fear
The white-man won´t come back
Ayayema burned them
Dream free
Light the fire
That the birds fly with you


El mar
Que llora los recuerdos de tu edad
Las voces que no dejan de gritar
Patagonia ancestral…
Sueña libre
Enciende el fuego
Que las aves vuelan junto a ti
Mujer
De ojos negros duerme sin temor
Los blancos ya no vuelven por aquí
Los quemó Ayayema
Sueña libre
Enciende el fuego
Que las aves vuelan junto a ti

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

No wars, no limits, no borders



I wish I had wings to fly away, far away
Meet smiley faces who never ask where I came from;
not to ask about colour, race, or religion
What difference does it make if we're all humans?
No wars, no limits, no borders. 
Earth is everyone's right.