Stamatis
stpgeorg.bsky.social
Stamatis
@stpgeorg.bsky.social
Mostly here to post poems into the void
116. Writing in the genocide by Omar Sakr

This is not your genocide
to write poems about
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
115. Axion Esti: Prophetic by Odysseas Elytis

And secretly the Rulers shall take stock of their human merchandise declaring wars ... big ships shall hoist their flags, marching songs shall advance along the roads, balconies shall strew flowers on the Victor. Who shall live in the odor of corpses.
July 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
112. The Stenographer by Alden Nowlan

and imagines
the office overrun
by Circassian slavers.

They strip her naked.
February 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
102. Needles by Brian Bilston
February 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
101. The Tiger by Nael, age 6
February 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
89. The Twelve Lays of the Gipsy by Kostis Palamas

Who is this fiddler,
Who instead of bringing good cheer shocks and outrages us
Who does not see what we see nor cherish what we cherish,
Who on a happy holiday stands before us like a nightmare,
Traitor, assassin, destroyer of our national genius?
February 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
86. Growing Pains by Brian Bilston
February 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
83. Sorcerer's Apprentice by Margaret Atwood

and the magic machine grinds on and on
spewing out mountains of whatnot
and we throw it all into the sea
as we have always done
and this will not end well
February 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
58. Les Manèges de la mer by Edouard Maunick
February 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
44. To know silence perfectly by Carl Sandburg

To know silence perfectly is to know music.
November 16, 2024 at 2:01 PM
26. My Friends are Blackbirds by Katerina Gogou

My friends are blackbirds and wires
in your hands. At your throat.
My friends.
November 15, 2024 at 10:22 AM
6. The Colony by John Hewitt

we would be strangers in the Capitol;
this is our country also, nowhere else;
and we shall not be outcast on the world.
November 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM