Greece
I always dreamed about that ancient lost civilization,
so sparkling in its splendour and dynamic growth
with suddenly the perfect sense of beauty and of realism
exploding in the arts, in architecture and in literature,
science being born with logic and the art of criticism,
to question everything, to pry and probe and never tire
of investigating, of exploiting curiosity and never be at ease,
the sound refuting of self-satisfaction and of hubris,
giving us the one civilization of philosophy.
My spiritual roots gave never up the ancient Greece
but always stayed there faithfully in spiritual depths
to one day, finally, return and find it still alive
and more inspiring than ever.
Greece is always there, my favourite in Europe,
with her inspiration and undying sparkling spirituality,
renewing and reminding constantly all Europe
of the fact that Europe came to be in Greece
arising, like a whole world of creation, from a myth.
That creativity is for me the most essential Greece
which I will share, support and always be a part of
carrying on the torch, regardless of where and how I may wander.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-09-12 at 09:55
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