Eros – Pteros Poem by Joseph S. Josephides

The earth of Curium quaked amid
As we indulged in a love, then slipped
A deadly pillar that put us to sleep
Absent, still present and now redeemed.

Look! In the light, two embraces now one, indeed!

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Here, in Choirokoitia, both buried as one
Under the floor of our house, woman and man,
With a boulder on our chests the burial was done
A seed, from which we grow to become a plant.

Look! Two embraces became one, under the sun!

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The verse, is a root spreading through the soil,
Offering to leaves the juice of love, for body and soul,
Up flying oxygen, upwards in clouds then down as rain,
Up and down on Cupid’s very wings, again and again.


Translation: Andis Panayiotou-Hadjiodysseos