De Griekse dichteres Maria Polydouri werd geboren op 1 april 1902 in Kalamata. Zie ook mijn blog van 1 april 2007 en ook mijn blog van 1 april 2008 en ook mijn blog van 1 april 2009 en ook mijn blog van 1 april 2010.
To a young man who committed suicide
A spirit kept pursuing him
in the dark expanses of his life.
His occupations, his joys at a nod
became pretexts of his vital drive.
His lovely books, thought, a momentary haunt.
His love a violent sight.
Later his face filled with mystery
and nothing around him was right.
A curious stranger, he wandered among us
in altered mien and grim.
He did not gainsay our suspicion
that something frightful awaited him.
He was strangely handsome, like those
whom death had singled out.
He yielded to the direst dangers
as if something guarded him throughout.
One morning, in a walnut casket we
found him dead with a mark on the temple.
All of him was like a victory,
like light casting around him in the dark.
He had such simplicity and serenity,
a smiling form living again!
As if all of him had become a Eucharist
and the cause had marked him in vain.

Maria Polydouri (1 april 1902 – 30 april 1930)
Lees verder “Maria Polydouri, Edgar Wallace, Arnold Aletrino, John Wilmot, Carl Sternheim”







