Monologue One
Yes, I am still unrefined by you, Desired
One...
Unrefined, by you, My Heaven.
You have leaned over me.
You look at me.
You want to bear fruit through me.
Breath. Conception.
I feel you within me.
Above our cradle,
The unbridled infinite hovers.
And your voice was heard.
That all-harmonious song of yours
took flesh within my flesh, through
flowers, trees, and seas:
“You. Through You.
Poetry.
Poetry is Pleasure.
It is Pleasure.
The world is my fruit.
The world written in your womb…”
It said.
“Your heart and your weapon,” it said.
And its hands stretched over me again.
It molds me again and again.
Merging into my flesh,
You opened, Summers,
Winters and Autumns.
It stirs with the stamen of the sun.
In the heights of the night.
I merge the dew of fire, water,
Earth and air.
It touches me, I think.
I hear chirping.
Oh, its all-harmonious breath in my
breath.
It hears my bosom.
I think that from my loins, instincts of
thousands of beasts escape.
I become a part of it.
And “the two shall become one flesh.”
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| Anna Emmanuel |
Anna
Emmanuel was born in 2002 in Greece, originally from Volos. She is a graduate
of the Pedagogical Department of Special Education of the University of
Thessaly. A particular research interest in her field is dealing with art and
its accessibility in relation to visually impaired people. Her favorite daily
interests are the writing of poetry, short stories and the creation of works of
art in digital form (digital art), where she won the First Prize of the
Panhellenic Digital Art by Kefalos Competition (2024). Esti Idoni is her first
poetry collection from AO Publications. And she won the Eratous Prize –
Love-Lyric Poetry Prize at the World Cavafy Competition (2024).