{"id":30826,"date":"2022-01-30T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/?p=30826&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-01-30T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T22:13:01","slug":"the-monogram-1705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/the-monogram-1705\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Monogram (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>III.<\/p>\n<p>So I talk about you and me<\/p>\n<p>Because I love you and in the love I know<br \/>\nTo enter like a Full Moon<br \/>\nFrom everywhere,like your little foot in the immense sheets<br \/>\nTo pluck jasmines and I have the power<br \/>\nAsleep,to blow to lead you<br \/>\nThrough moonlight paths and secret arches of the sea<br \/>\nHypnotised trees with spiders that we silver plated<\/p>\n<p>The waves have heard of you<br \/>\nHow you caress,how you kiss<br \/>\nHow you say in whispers the &#8220;what&#8221; and the &#8220;eh&#8221;<br \/>\nAround the neck in the bay<br \/>\nAlways us the light and the shadow<\/p>\n<p>Always you the little star and always me the dark floater<br \/>\nAlways you the harbor and me the right latern<br \/>\nThe wet breakwater and the shine upon the oars<\/p>\n<p>High in the house with the vine branches<br \/>\nThe tied roses,and the water that gets cold<br \/>\nAlways you the stone statue and always I the shadow that grows<br \/>\nThe leaning window shutter you,and I the adoration that opens it<br \/>\nBecause I love you and I love you<br \/>\nAlways you the coin and I the adoration that cashes it:<\/p>\n<p>So the night,so the roar in the wind<br \/>\nSo the drop in the air,so the serenity<br \/>\nAll around the despotic sea<br \/>\nChamber of the sky with the stars<br \/>\nSo your slightest breath<\/p>\n<p>I have nothing else anymore than<br \/>\nIn the four walls,the ceiling,the floor<br \/>\nTo cry out from you and my voice to hit me<br \/>\nTo smell from you and the people to get angry<br \/>\nBecause the untried and the from else brought<br \/>\nThe people can&#8217;t stand it and it&#8217;s early,do you hear me<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still early in this world my love<\/p>\n<p>TO TALK ABOUT YOU AND ME<\/p>\n<p>IV<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\/el\/monograma-monogram.html<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still early in this world,do you hear me<br \/>\nThe monsters haven&#8217;t benn tamed,do you hear me<br \/>\nMy lost blood and the sharp,do you hear me<br \/>\nKnife<br \/>\nLike a ram that runs through the skies<br \/>\nAnd cracks the branches of the stars,do you hear me<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s me,do you hear me<br \/>\nI love you,do you hear me<br \/>\nI hold you and I take you and I wear to you<br \/>\nThe Ophelia&#8217;s white wedding dress,do you hear me<br \/>\nWhere are you leaving me,where are you going and who,do you hear me<\/p>\n<p>He holds your hand above the deluge<\/p>\n<p>The huge retails and the lavas of the volcanos<br \/>\nWill come one day,do you hear me<br \/>\nTo bury us after and the thousands of years<br \/>\nThey will make us shiny stones,do you hear me<br \/>\nTo shine upon them the insensibility,to hear<br \/>\nOf the people<br \/>\nAnd to throw us thousands of pieces<br \/>\nIn the waters one by one, do you hear me<br \/>\nMy bitter pebbles I count,do you hear me<br \/>\nAnd the time is a big church,do you hear me<br \/>\nThat sometime the Saints&#8217; figures<br \/>\nshed true tears,do you hear me<br \/>\nThe bells open high,do you hear me,<br \/>\nOne deep passage to cross<br \/>\nThe angels are waiting with candles and deadly chants<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going nowhere do you hear me<br \/>\nAnyone or the two of us together,do you hear me<\/p>\n<p>This flower of the storm and do you hear me<br \/>\nOf love<br \/>\nWe cut it once and forever<br \/>\nAnd it can&#8217;t blossom in any other way,do you hear me<br \/>\nIn another land,another star,do you hear me<br \/>\nThe soil doesn&#8217;t exist,the air doesn&#8217;t exist<br \/>\nThat we touched,the same,do you hear me<\/p>\n<p>And no gardener fortuned in other times<\/p>\n<p>From so winter and from so north winds,do you hear me<br \/>\nTo blossom a flower,only us,do you hear me<br \/>\nIn the middle of the sea<br \/>\nAnd only the errand of the love,do you hear me<br \/>\nWe raised a whole island,do you hear me<br \/>\nWith caves and with hawsers and with blossomed precipices<br \/>\nlisten,listen<br \/>\nWho talks in the waters and who cries-do you listen?<br \/>\nwho seeks the other,who is screaming-<br \/>\ndo you listen?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s me who I scream and it&#8217;s me that I&#8217;m crying,do you hear me<br \/>\nI love you,I love you,do you hear me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Odysseas Elytis<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Source: https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\/el\/monograma-monogram.html<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>III. 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