Holden Moncrieff
Updated: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:10 pm
Biography
"Κι αν δεν μπορείς να κάμεις την ζωή σου όπως την θέλεις, τούτο προσπάθησε τουλάχιστον όσο μπορείς: μην την εξευτελίζεις μες στην πολλή συνάφεια του κόσμου, μες στες πολλές κινήσεις κι ομιλίες. Μην την εξευτελίζεις πηαίνοντάς την, γυρίζοντας συχνά κ' εκθέτοντάς την στων σχέσεων και των συναναστροφών την καθημερινήν ανοησία, ως που να γίνει σα μια ξένη φορτική." C.P. Cavafy
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Blog entries by Holden Moncrieff
Destined... (13/12/2024)
Rosary. (02/12/2024)
Jesting... (21/10/2024)
Human. (15/10/2024)
Riddle. (01/10/2024)
Owl. (18/09/2024)
Beacon. (09/09/2024)
Wrestling... (24/08/2024)
Orphaned. (13/08/2024)
Phantom. (01/08/2024)
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Comments
Thank you very much for your appreciation of my poetry!🌻
Thank you for liking my work Holden, I really appreciate it.
Thank you
<Deleted User> (35860)
Tue 20th Feb 2024 10:34
Many thanks Holden, re Fallen milestones.
Beth
Thank you for taking out your time and reading my poems, I'm glad that you liked it, Holden. It means a lot to me.🌻
Cheers Holden 🙂
Mon 25th Jul 2022 09:10
Once again thank you for liking my latest poem "Malus Ivius". Its much appreciated!
Mon 13th Jun 2022 20:45
Thank you for liking my recent effort Holden! 😊
thank you so much for your kind words on my writing!!! it means a lot😊
Thanks for the like and comment on my poem. It's always much appreciated when talented folk like yourself take the time to read and feedback - makes you realise your ramblings may have some value to others, which I find reassuring.😌
<Deleted User> (33000)
Fri 1st Apr 2022 13:51
👍👍👍👍!!! re -' Comes infinitum '
Mon 6th Dec 2021 08:12
Thank you Mr. Moncrieff! Your likes inspire me. Thank you tonnes for reading my poems...?
Holden,
Thank you for your latest comment on my poem, and also for many previous comments. The are a constant source of inspiration and encouragement.
Thank you indeed
Keith
Hey Holden!
Thank you for reading and liking my last poem! ?
Thank you for liking my Demon Poem! ?
thanks?
Thank you!
Thanks for liking my poem!
I would like to thank you for reading and commenting on my poems. It is most kind of you. I particularly value constructive criticism as a means of helping me to improve my work.
Thank you again.
Keith
i.m. C. P. Cavafy, poet
I am from Constantinople, a Byzantine by descent,
The last, the very last, Byzantine nobleman
My family lived in Constantinople before the Turks took the city in 1453.
I was born and died in the same place, Alexandria,
Egypt, on the same day, April 29th, 1863, and 1933.
I am homosexual. I died of cancer of the larynx.
I was silenced but noboby knew the difference.
There were many years between my visits to Greece
But I always loved my Hellenic inheritance..
I lived much of my childhood in England.
My last employment was as a government clerk .
I can write in Greek, English and French.
I self-published my poetry but it was unpopular
And unfashionable. I made no money from poetry.
In my poems I explore the psychology of individuals,
amidst the legacy of Greek culture, especially
Ithaca, homosexuality and Greek philosophy.
Throughout my life, and even now, I suffer
From an all-pervasive existential nostalgia.
Now my poems are taught in schools in Greece
One of my most famous poems is
Waiting for the Barbarians
Which could be about Constantinople
In the years before the Ottoman conquest.
Or could it be about the human tendency to prevaricate?
Who knows?
What’s the point of senators making laws now?
Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.
These are the sorts of words I used. I asked many questions.
Including: Do we need barbarians, even invisible ones,
To be threatening the gates of our cities? I think we do
If we want to stay alive. Be the less-deceived.
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Telioza Felerrio
Mon 21st Oct 2024 15:27
I am grateful for your appreciation, for my poem.💐
Thanks for acknowledging it.