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September 2021

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DR. ANDREAS GEORGALLIDES

Dr. Andreas Georgallides was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. He received his MA in philosophy from the University of Paris I -Pantheon-Sorbonne, France; and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. He belongs to the Arts-Sciences-Letters, Union of Cyprus Writers. He has many books published in multiple languages and many international literary awards from France, Greece, Australia and Cyprus. He has a lengthy list of publications of poetry in anthologies as well as publications of poetry with visuals and sound. Currently, he lives in Latsia, Cyprus, and is a new member of UPLI. The following short poems are from his multilingual poetry book, Colours across colours.

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THE TURMOIL OF BEING

We are in agreement with a reality
which
either we choose
or it is imposed on us.
The remaining realities
which
we neither choose
nor have imposed,
let us at least be in a mood
to respect them.
Thus,
we agree
to the agreement of one reality - our own,
but also agree to the reality of others.
We make
the veil of our knowledge
as well as our ignorance.


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SO-TO-SPEAK

The uncertainty of the past
outlines all locked seas
unobservably.
No one
knows the past tense completely
or for that matter the present.
Our acquaintance with these tenses
constitutes a fact - entirely coincidental.
It is said so-to-speak
that this is how we say things.
We connect facts selectively
and then,
call for our selective truth.

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I ANTISEISMITIZE MYSELF

I hold
the outline of your voice
and with the colours of your eyes
represent
my immovable sky.

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RELATIONSHIP OF EMPTY SPACE

I disobey
the uncertainty of time
and trap
the tautologies of my prison.
I exist before
my relationship
and am disturbed reluctantly
by the demolition of fundamental magnitudes.
I tell falsehoods
and ceaselessly measure
the passive appraisal of my composure
thus escaping
the isolation of your presence.

LACERATIONS OF LIGHT

Invited and undesired,
in the space of shadows,
I am recycled geometricized
gathering lacerations of light.
No sum total
ever declares a sun
that can shine.

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BILINEAR FUNCTION

The shadows of time
keep an eye on darkness
since light
is enclosed in its silence.
Singular number
flounders about in the wind of darkness
and the foreshocks
recycle the bilinear function.

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