Panayoti Karousos concert in Montreal
Featuring Underground
Panayoti Karousos, Composer
President Barack Obama, poet
Veronica Navarro, mezzo-soprano
Claudette Denys, piano
Hilario Yanez, guitar
Stratton D. Stevens House
Underground by President Barack Obama
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Maid of
Maid of
Give, oh, give back my heart!
Or, since that has left my breast,
Keep it now, and take the rest!
Hear my vow before I go,
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.
By those tresses unconfined,
Wooed by each Aegean wind;
By those lids whose jetty fringe
Kiss thy soft cheeks' blooming tinge;
By those wild eyes like the roe,
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.
By that lip I long to taste;
By that zone-encircled waist;
By all the token-flowers that tell
What words can never speak so well;
By love's alternate joy and woe,
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.
Maid of
Think of me, sweet! when alone.
Though I fly to Istambol,
Can I cease to love thee? No!
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.
To Teresa Macri
(Zoë mou sas agapo - My life, I love thee)
