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Oikogenia (Original Greek Poem)

 Oikogenia

OI oikogenia
exei yiayia,
kai papou, patera, mama,
Adelfia, xadeldia
kai allifini filoi 
Oi movi anthropoi pou prepei
na tous dwseis ebistoseivei

Otan oloi sa finounai na povas monos
OI oikogenia eivai ekei na sou parounai o povos

Oi aloi oi anthwpoi milane poli
Na xeris kati, 
Afti pou exounai megalw stoma 
va min tous fobase
Kiauti pou de milave kafolou
Na tous fobase

Giati the leve tipota ala akouvai ola
Xerounai pola 
Oi mana mou mexei pei 
o filos borei na eivai kai fidi
Yiati tov exeis dosei ola ta mistika sou
Borei eukola na spasei ti zwi sou
San parafiro me petro ap tin auli sou.

Kai oi oikogenia borounai na kanounai to idio
Giauto prepei na prosexeis 
ta logia pou bgainoun ap to stoma
Yiati ta dika sou logia
Ap to diko sou stoma 
Borounai na sou balouvai 
Stiv timoria.

Giauto filaraki mou
Prosexe me ta matia sou
al kalutera me to kefali sou
Giati auto eivai to kalutero oplo sou.

Kai na eisai kovta stiv oikogenia sou
Giati then tha exeis kaluterous filous
se oli ti zwi sou.

— Sophocles, Mar 15, 2009

About the Author

Country/Region: USA

Favorite Poets: Homer (Odyssey), Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Tupac Shakur, Edgar Allen Poe

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poewriter58

17 years 2 months ago

Hmmmm

I've read another poem by you and would love to know what this one says what about the rest of us lol? Chrys

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