Poetic adventures in black

Death of Ophelia in Shakespeare's "Hamlet",
as painted by the french artist Odilon Redon.
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of Ophelia, as seen by famous artists....

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OPHELIA

Ghosts ugly and white
howling, haunt my darkest nightmares
Tormented black ruins
is all my heart in sorrow bystares.
So pale and still floats my dearest Ophelia
among the nenuphars.

Towers grown old
that cast their savage shadows on me.
Castles of past
and their proud chest of stoneness.
Remnants of damned and tortured souls engraved within them
standing in front of me!!

Oh crystal eyes
so innocently looking at me,
if you don’t see me
still eternally you love me!
Hard drops of rain and ricochets of frozen whirlwinds
please say good night to her!!

And take me away from this by god forsaken dark place
that can't be touched at all by summer's warming embrace
take me away with all your last remaining fury
from seeing her going down to earth’s great depths, so lurid.

A POETIC ATTEMPT IN GREEK, ON SHAKESPEARE'S OPHELIA'S CHARACTER BY CONSTANTINE TAOULAS
POORLY TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH BY V.N.

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This is an oil painting by the famous
greek surrealist Nikos Engonopoulos, entitled
"The Mediterranean Muse". Learn more about
this controversial painter and poet by clicking
on the picture...

Costas Kariotakis - The Poet.
Pessimism as a way of life!
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information about his work and his life"