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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459691" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In a Greek Amphitheatre: George Seferis, poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Noon here in hot summer in this quarter-sphere of stepped stone; <br>the smell of herbs rolling down from the mountainside, <br>the light so strong that it seems to have bleached away all thought; <br>time is taking a siesta. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">come sit with me here in this almost deserted amphitheatre<br>which has stood for more than two thousand years, <br>only the bees are quietly moving, <br>searching the flowers which grow between these huge blocks of stone<br>which someone quarried, someone brought here, <br>someone acted out the world upon, some many sat <br>and were moved to fear and tears; <br>someone ate olives, spat the pits between the blocks of stone; <br>now an olive tree bears witness, <br>its bleached roots like an arthritic climber, <br>splitting the stone blocks with the insistence of history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Memory, wherever you touch it, <br>hurts’…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">merciful gods might have removed these stones <br>with two thousand years of rain, of wind, of searing sun, <br>so that the insistence of history might not be <br>so painful to a Greek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The only other figure in this huge amphitheatre -<br>you see him down there? In the white hat<br>and dark suit of summer cloth? He’s a poet; <br>but is his mind too, sitting in the audience? Or is he<br>on the stage? Is he<br>living the play; the hero with a tragic flaw, <br>the chorus commenting, the tragedy unfolding? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Greek, the same word means martyr<br>and means witness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was born a Greek in a Greek colony; <br>at 22, the Turks flung them out; <br>he sailed in wine-dark seas of wars and occupations; <br>and when the sailor sailed into the port to take his place in his immortal court, <br>found Greece, not celebrating peace, but Greek fighting Greek; <br>the cruellest of wars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was not Odysseus but Greece itself<br>that wandering, had not yet come home; <br>the harbours boatless; silent the shepherd's flute; <br>the olive groves untended; hives deserted; <br>grapes that never tasted wine; figs that burst uneaten; <br>Olympia's grass, all silent and untrodden; <br>temples empty, marble columns <br>their cool beauty empty-armed without their worshippers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here at noon, the summer heat pressing and intense, <br>the air still, a bee passing across our laps<br>as we sit here on the higher tier; <br>a dark-suited poet, witness, martyr, <br>like an olive tree between hard stone, <br>suffers the playing out, the painful beauty<br>like a dark thought at noon, <br>the insistence of history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Memory, wherever<br>you touch it, hurts.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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the smell of herbs rolling down from the mountainside, 
the light so strong that it seems to have bleached away all thought; 
time is taking a siesta. 

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