today I wish to give you simplicity: The Meaning of Simplicity
I hide behind simple things so you'll find me
if you don't find me, you'll find the things,
you'll touch what my hand has touched,
our hand-prints will merge.
The August moon glitters in the kitchen
like a tin-plated pot (it gets that way
because of what I'm saying to you) ,
it lights up the empty house and
the house's kneeling silence-
always the silence remains kneeling.
Every word is a doorway
to a meeting, one often cancelled,
and that's when a word is true:
when it insists on the meeting.
-Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990)
Translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley
found on this site: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-meaning-of-simplicity/
This isn't my poem nor is it my translation, but this Greek Poet is one of my all time favourite. I don't think I can write a poem that describes simplicity so I give you this one. I hope that I have covered copyright issues here.
YOU ARE READING
Today I will Be.
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