Potpourri of smiles, laughter, colors, downtown-bound on O’Connell Street;
Younger looker with shades, 
older bloke with tattoos;
Dublin abounds with memories 
I will not forget

OM
Aug 24, 2019

Six-eighths,
endless loop;
Fiddle arpeggios,
guitar coloring,
concertina conducting;
Up and down,
scale of sine waves;
Melody, flavoring cultural palate,
uplifting crowd

21 August 2019
An Droicead Beag
Dingle

Copyright 2020
ODYSSEUS MIKALIS

(Memories, 2020-22: COVID Chronicles)

Daybreak is greeted by exiting dream of pre-COVID years (it was only yesterday, or so it seemed).  I think about what to wear; the thought quickly dissipates.  Boxer shorts are very, very comfortable.. why change?   

Siri does not yet know how to interpret the word COVID; however, "covert" may be a good word it is misinterpreting, or covertly interpreting.

We have been in this isolation mode for over two weeks. It has made for a strange behavioral patterns, such as human avoidance, sanitizing inanimate vectors, etc.

April 2020



Από όνειρο ξύπνησα,
μήπως πραγματοποιηθεί;

Waking from a dream
will it materialize?

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WHO’S  W.H.O. ?

Select players,
dictating policy,
germinating seeds of distrust
and dark crops?

11 April 2020

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Ποιος ακούει;
Το πονηρό χαμόγελο 
κρύβει ο σκοτεινός θάλαμος φρενώνM

Who’s listening?
The sneaky smile
hidden in dark cerebral tunnel

10 Απριλίου 2020


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MONOTONY OF MONASTICISM

Myopic and melodic,
imagination meandering

New iterations of intimacy,
in maize of constriction,
personal space redefined

Periods of exuberance,
escape complete,
replaced by reality,
only to repeat

Differentiation of days, 
what is meaning?
Existentialist, yet esoteric,
limited by mental threshold

Opportunity to reflect
meaning of life;
Priorities,
not labels and expectations,
catharsis of brainwashing

Mental abbey, 
no garden plots
Existentialist memories,
the only preserves


21 April 2020






Αντίληψη ελευθερίας
Ελευθερία, κρυμμένη στο δάσος
ιών και βίον

βιασμός εγκέφαλου

Ψυχική πλάκωση


Anticipation of freedom
Freedom, hidden in the woods
of viruses and life

Mental abuse
outstretched soul

25 April 2020


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Tree of Relationship
rooted in insecurity
where fruit never ripens

Δέντρο σχέσεων
βασισμένο σε ανασφάλεια..
άγουροι καρποί

26 April 2020


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JULY 2022

Twenty-seven months later, we are in a new phase, no less frustrating…

COVIDOLOGIA
Covid Chronicles

Treated as if lepers,
where  socializing
was a dance of paranoia

Σαν να είμαστε λεπροί,
οι κ οινωνικές σχέσεις
παρανοϊκός χορός


 

(From “LA VIDA COVID”)

Where are you, Pan
role model for party, fun,
entertaining in Pania, now Arcadia?

Your homophonic sister,
shadow in darkness,
Pandemia, 
stealing show
 
Everyone is Pan
 all are not panicking;
Pan not related to virus,
(is Corona related to Pan?)



*** This is to distinguish difference between the god Pan and the origin of the word pandemic. "Pandemic" from pan+demos, πανδημία = all people, where "panic" (Πανικός) is derived from the god Pan (many of his parties ended up in frenzies (are we looking forward to this after Covid has been tamed??). ***

OM
5 April 2020

Many triangles and squares; 
Two triangles make a square, 
however, 
not many shapes of polygons

Sweet and sour,
surrounding pool;
Reflection of contrast
of content and void 

25 July 2019

Bathing in Aegean,
early morning;
Calming waves,
massaging outlook;
Depths taking away
stress of weight and cortisol 

Immersed in calmness,
IVIG of soul,
dripping at rate of continuity,
enabling optimism 


Marikes
17 July 2020
OM

Η αμμουδιά πάτωμα,
ήχος θαλάσσης μουσική

The beach a floor,
music, sea’s echo

Ουρανός άπειρη σκεπή,
φεγγάρι φωτισμός

Infinite celestial cover,
luminescence of moon

Παρέα διατροφή 
στo πάλκο της ζωής 

Friends, the nutrition 
on Life’s stage


Ταβέρνα "Ο Ξυπόλυτος"
Tavern “Barefoot One”
Αρτέμιδα , Artemida
2016

HVAC, 
you stab in the back;
In (sub)urban fox hole,
you challenge the soul

Prisoner of climate,
let us rethink, 
life is finite

Transport us to place,
where wind
blows air in our face
and drywall bars
give way to freedom


B. 


Prisoners of HVAC,
soul in a cage,
trying to fly out
from suburbia's rage

Cocktail of social media and humidity,
as if immersed in bath;
'Tis an achievement
to have taken another path

Pods of dwellings,
all looking the same;
How can we reconnect with sanity,
if we've succumbed to the game?

OM