Mandrakia, Milos · 2017 simple beauty
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Greece, cradle of philosophy, of be and see, child prodigy. Now some call you a problem child, all nonsense, no sense. I can’t wait to see what you will grow up to be, a few thousand years from now.
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a glimpse
glimpse: PIECE | Oh Santorini sun, fiery minx, you set like no other; all dressed in amorous promises, you lean in to kiss the horizon and our voluptuous human longing for romance becomes so tangible. But, alas, the faster you near the embrace, the more passion becomes skirmish. To hell with loving surrender, everybody doesn’t want peace; a piece is what we crave! We miss gentle caresses down here, in this crossfire of sharp elbows and hectic shutter shot staccatos; but none of us can afford time or space for sentiments while demanding our rightful peek. Like the tide below, the second wave of people has arrived to replace the first; yet, the flesh pours in erratically, unlike the smoothly transitioning surf. We are all here, now, but not in the moment and not together. Oh Santorini sun, you lured us with union, but all you gave was divide. Now you wander west to seduce another sorry lot of naïve fools, leaving us in the dark.
The sea wasn't very deep just there and the sky not very high just then, and the earth felt a little more significant.
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Sarakiniko, Milos· 2017 her layers
Layer by layer by layer, but did they work their way from the bottom up or the top down?
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Imerovigli, Santorini manmade layers
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places / stories
Athens / The Rise and Fall of Empires
Who’s next?
Former empires might have traded their swords for pencils, yet the battlefields remain and the war for growth and power goes on.
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Santorini / To Be Your Lover
Aegean Sea, poetry to me
and to everyone with at least one eye to see
or even just a mind to be,
to be your lover, your sailor, your piglet, your toy,
cruel joy
you take us all into your depths eventually
Aegean Sea, in you I will never be free
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 stairway to the sea
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 into the dark
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 ebbing sun
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 night's light
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 stairs of light
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 table for three
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 off to new shores
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 one
Imerovigli, Santorini / Greece · 2017 two
Paradisos, Santorini / Greece · 2017 all over the cliffs
Oia, Santorini / Greece · 2017 their religion was the sea
Oia, Santorini / Greece · 2017 parcels
Oia, Santorini / Greece · 2017 pink
Oia, Santorini / Greece · 2017 white
Oia, Santorini / Greece · 2017 alley man
Oia, Santorini / Greece · 2017 tucked away
Paradisos, Santorini / Greece · 2017 the island's subtle backside
Paradisos, Santorini / Greece · 2017 in quiet proximity to the sea
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Milos / Shier
Plaka, Milos / Greece · 2017 wallflower
shier,
no liar
less pearls,
beauty unfurls
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Sarakiniko, Milos / Greece · 2017 open door
Sarakiniko, Milos / Greece · 2017 when the sky closed in
Adamas, Milos / Greece · 2017 color cousins
Mandrakia, Milos / Greece · 2017 childhood bliss
Milos / Greece · 2017 walking on chaos
Milos / Greece · 2017 window door
Milos / Greece · 2017 one town over
Plaka, Milos / Greece · 2017 the season's closing
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