CASSANDRA ALOGOSKOUFI

 

The Parting

The joy of birth 

was swelled by the 

philosophical yeast.

For every stone of oath, 

the hand was raised up 

in a clenched fist.

Man shall walk, 

defining the first-to-be step 

on an untrodden path. 

Man shall talk, 

taking the first-to-be vow 

with an uplifted hand. 

The humanity is always present 

in the order of a worldly anarchy.

The man co-affirmed beyond 

the principals of universe: 

The soul that I am to deliver, 

it will be the truth, 

the only truth and 

nothing but the truth. 

Thus, the soul resides hidden in the body 

till the time of the great departure. Though,

nobody had ever witnessed the parting!

Quicksand Of Dreams

Eve's lotus was eaten merely. 

But it kept growing again, 

re-filling the gap of the bite. 

People were sinning greedily.

For the sake of the endless 

fruit of knowledge, they bit 

the lotus here and there 

softly on the earlobe. 

They heard whispers that 

revealed the worst torments. 

And the protoplasts came back 

frightened by God's Ball. 

A cotillion of kind manners 

and other social graces. 

In vain, they struck the knocker 

of the eternally closed gate. 

Nobody was there to welcome 

the return of the sinners. 

Thus, they were forced to indulge 

in the lawlessness of survival. 

They dipped into the jungle’s 

quicksand like hopeless dreams.

CASSANDRA ALOGOSKOUFI

CASSANDRA ALOGOSKOUFI (Greece) Author, poet, translator and visual artist. Her artworks are published in many magazines and artistic anthologies, among which a poetry collection by Rosa Luxemburg Institution in Athens. She has represented Greece in BJCEM festival by the Greek Ministry of Education (27 countries-700 artists, Scopje). Benefited with several awards and scholarships.