Xmas words for you a;;

[Nick Tselepides 1]

:) :) I wrote a poem which I can also dedicate to you all. Leaving for China for a month on the 24th of Dec. for work for my college and these days are somewhat stressful for me.

Will be posting from there, too. Poem follows:

 

 

 

:) FRUIT AND STUFF

(after a poem by Robert Peterson)

 

 

New flowers on my balcony flowerpot

Red this time, name unknown.

Not like geraniums

Not like any other ones I know.

This is the time of year of nuts and cake spices

Vanilla and cinnamon

Oranges, apples, mandarins,

Ginseng and chocolate

And yes to Oriental perfumes

No to daffodils, and no to tea.

Peanuts won’t make the grade

But almonds will. Chicken for dinner

Seems gone forever and mint

Colors all plates. Bells have turned

Small and golden and hang

In plastic from the tree. The pine

In the street is busy making new seed

For the wind of February. Do candles

We light at night speak to each other?

With restraint, 6-star brandy brings

An ambience to the room: little secrets

We never told each other are revealed.

Yesterday, by sealed orders, I banned

All roses from the house as insipid. Today

I open the door wide to what will not terrorize.

That is you, my dear wife, and whatever flowers

And spices you still carry in your bags.

 

 

:)

Nikos Tselepides

Dec.18, 2004

[Dagger 21]

Thanks for the thought..the poem was very nice and much appriciated.I hope your time in China goes well...may the wind be at your back!

oh yeah..if you can post some pics.