The Waltz of Lost Dreams

Ode To Manos Hadjidakis

I have been struggling since yesterday to come up with an artist or a band for the title song poetry challenge—today’s letter X is a shallow pool of choices. I wrote a little poem (you can read it in the comments of Writer Pilgrim’s post), but as it turned out it was not enough. With no alternatives, I turned my attention to the Greek alphabet. Among these strange-looking letters abides a great master, whose legacy exceeds the borders of this strange country I call home, and whose compositions are forever engraved in everyone’s soul.

I chose four of his songs to write the poem and made a free translation to rewrite it in English. Substack’s fonts do not behave well with Greek letters, so I had to compromise with an image for both text versions.

Manos Hadjidakis needs no further words from me, his work speaks for him.

Photo © Manos Hadjidakis’ Archive

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