(Dedicated to Native Americans)

Written by Nikos Moschovos

 Descendants of civilizations.

Lined faces

look sadly.

Bygone hymns they sing.

 

They stand, proud, on the mountain tops,

Forgotten.

They mourn, dancing,

they wait for the past future to come.

 

They fight,

but the indicator of time has left them behind.

The knowledge they touched.

Dash got away from them so simply.

They greet friendlily.

 

KINDLY FACES

how much agony they hide, one wonders.

 

THE VAGUE ONES

Became immaterial,

true angels they became,

without wings they were left,

fallen,

taken down from the cross

here, forever.

 

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

BROTHERS AND UNGLES

FATHERS AND MOTHERS

the broken chain they try to join.

 

The drums are rolling.

They are smiling,

tonight something has come from the past.

 

Here,

there,

elsewhere.

 

GOOD MORNING, they say to you jovially.

Blows they suffered

but they carry on

stubbornly.

They found an end to the thread of Truth.

WEAK DOORS

placed everywhere.

The opportunities were seized by the OTHERS.

 

The sun wept

as it was setting,

It asked:

How many years did it take you?

MANY, they replied.

 

Their baggage they took

and went away.

They disappeared,

The fire was still smouldering,

They were IMMATERIAL.

 

About the poem

Nikos Moschovos wrote the poem “The Immaterial Ones” in the summer of 1993, and it is dedicated to the Indians of America.

Vicky Dimitriadou translated this poem into English, and it was included in the World Poetry Anthology -14th series (World Poetry 1996- The 14th Series, Author: Kim Young-Woong,Editor–in–Chief: Kang Shin-IL),Αnthologist: Kim Young-Woong.

 It was included in the printed poetry collection of Nikos Moshovos entitled “The Flight of Little Janus – Poems 1991-1995″ (“Elytro” publications, Thessaloniki 1995, ISBN 960-7624-03-3).

This poetry collection was republished in 2013 as an eBook (PDF) by “Online Book Publications: NMOS – NIKOLAOS MOSCHOVOS” (Thessaloniki 2013, ISBN-978-960-90172-2-0).

At this stage, this poetry collection is not “published” in a printed book, but only on the internet.

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