my boy
Now that you’ve spent some time out there
seeing futility in vain
now that you’ve learned it’s not all just a game,
as it sets your youthful heart
please lets not drift too far apart…
Now that you’ve had your first heartache
gasping for air as it set upon you
you must remember all I’ve taught you,
be bold and never think you’ve lost
life’s lessons learned, a positive cost
Yes, I accept it, you know it all now
as varied cravings starting to show
all over your tender, adolescent body,
hastily marked by tonic love
be mindful of its perplexities my son.
And as your father drifts away,
as life and death run their trepid course
consider the echo of my distant voice:
never give up your lucid dream
no matter how hard it all may seem…
......
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About Makednos
Iakovos was born in Thessaloniki Greece, and arrived in Australia as a migrant in 1970. He has been writing poetry (in both Greek and English) since he was a child and here in Australia was President of Hellenic Writer's Association of Australia between 1993 and 2004. He founded the first bi-lingual literature website in Australia in 1997, organised the first book exhibition of the works of writers from Greek origin in Australia. Together with Costas Athanasiou organised the first photographic exhibition of writers' portraits of Greek origin in Australia and was the first to research literature on the internet by Greeks of Diaspora, a paper which was presented at the Flinders University Conference of Greek Research in 2005. ---- Γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη, έφτασε στην Αυστραλία το 1970 και υπηρέτησε σε πολλούς παροικιακούς οργανισμούς. Γράφει λογοτεχνία στην Ελληνική και Αγγλική από παιδική ηλικία.
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