To take advantage of the opportunity that this day offers, we read and interpreted in our own way some short, yet well-known poems, filled with powerful images and ideas. Listen to our students reading these poems with their sweet voices which immediately enable us to look deeper within us and consider the poets’ ideas from a child’s perspective.
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Read by Minas Papadakis and Michael Katsibris
Fame is a fickle food (1659) by Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Farmer’s Corn
–Men eat of it and die.
Read by Konstantinos Barkatsas
In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Read by Alitheia Chatzinikolaki
