Greece is ... poetry

Beneath the hoar-frost, body damply torpid,
the dove that's Athens shivers,
is enraptured, and awaits the distant sunrise
like a bride.
 
Kostas Karyotakis


 
 The ship! - it wipes out all our chances.
The Kuro Siwo crushed us under its heel,
but you're still watching, over the wheel,
how, point by point, the compass dances.
 
Nikos Kavadias
 

Where we finish, appears the sea. Sea. Sea. Sea.
Where we finish, appears the sea.
Speak! Say something, anything.
 
Kiki Dimoula
 

In the sea caves
for whole days I gazed into your eyes
and I didn't know you nor did you know me.
 
Giorgos Seferis
 

Oh God, you used so much blue
so that we cannot see you.


Odysseas Elytis