Using as everyone knows my cunning
I left my shadow at sea
and returned immediately to Ithaca.
Nobody believes that I am here.
That is why I now pass my days
as one of the suitors.
I am secretly weaving, however.
Penelope is disturbed every morning
when she finds a new dress on the loom.
She immediately makes us unravel it
each suitor pulling a different thread.
Without a single dress her body
will become a wedding garment
and she will marry one of us
dispersing the rest to foreign places.
It is in our interest therefore
when history delays
and in her eyes we are all part of the plot.
Time passes this way, waiting
Odysseus’ arrival.
Yiorgos Chouliaras (20th century) Greece
Translated by David Mason and Yiorgos Chouliaras
Source: Create and Do
I left my shadow at sea
and returned immediately to Ithaca.
Nobody believes that I am here.
That is why I now pass my days
as one of the suitors.
I am secretly weaving, however.
Penelope is disturbed every morning
when she finds a new dress on the loom.
She immediately makes us unravel it
each suitor pulling a different thread.
Without a single dress her body
will become a wedding garment
and she will marry one of us
dispersing the rest to foreign places.
It is in our interest therefore
when history delays
and in her eyes we are all part of the plot.
Time passes this way, waiting
Odysseus’ arrival.
Yiorgos Chouliaras (20th century) Greece
Translated by David Mason and Yiorgos Chouliaras
Source: Create and Do
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