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AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR, 2022-2023 When the Space-Time Gates Open Wide Every year, During these very last hours of the year, We look once more with one eye at Our forgotten past, and with the other at An unknown future … Backward, with regrets or thankfulness? Forward, with worries or wishes … even dreams? Every year, I insist to stay, at this very special time, Quite alone, me and You, my Maker However, this year, I’ve invited many From across the long history From around the boundless world This year, As it breathes out its very last hours, Here I’m, calling those friends Of creative minds and souls Who I have had many dialogues with Here are Europe’s founders of the -ISMs Of Art, Philosophy, and Literature Here’s the Greco-Roman Greece With my pen-friend Sappho The legendary poetess of all time Out of the Greco-Roman, Comes also from Rome, Ovid, After we had our long talk in his exile, Here are also coming Cicero, Julius Caesar, and Vergil Let’s welcome the High Middle Ages And the Renaissance luminaries, Dante, as he’s talking in his ‘Commedia’ With his eternal friend Vergil, And with Leonardo, as we’re still discussing Our today's world existential challenges Then, our banquet widens to let us talk with Italy’s composers Albinoni, and Giazotto, Of the great immortal Adagio, France’s Descartes, Victor Hugo, Napoleon, And the Cathedral Notre Dame of Paris Who is still talking despite her burnings Wait! Let me also open our soul’s door to England’s Shakespeare, and William Blake Then, continue my discussion with Duke of Wellington, after his victory At the Battle of Waterloo over Napoleon, About our suffering world’s destiny And I haven’t forgotten Oscar Wilde So, I called him from his dark prisons In a little while, Germany’s Goethe, Schiller, Emanuel Kant, Von Platen, and Herder come In converse, then, with Beethoven and Wagner, I'll be talking about the great 9th Symphony Spain’s Poet St. John of the Cross is also coming, Followed by Cervantes hand-in-hand with His genius creation Don Quixote As I had before many dialogues with them both And with Don Juan of Tirso de Molina, Discussing the Sexuality versus Spirituality Then, with Salvador Dali about his Last Word Likewise, Russia’s last Tzar, Nicolas II, is invited From his last hour before leaving dramatically Our world with his dear family. Finally, I'll be running a roundtable to explore Time, Past, History, and Eternity With Gorky, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky. Some may think I’m crazy or just dreaming But they’re alive, immortal, and still breathing Filling the air with their thoughts and voices Which are still echoing through my DIALOGUES ACROSS THE CENTURIES To Message the Past with Soul’s Whispers. GeorgeOnsy-Egypt©2022-2023 With the artworks I created as sections’ separators and the book cover of my 5th book: "DIALOGUES ACROSS THE CENTURIES Messaging the Past with Soul’s Whispers" India 2022-2023 ** And to you, dear friends everywhere, I won’t say: “Happy New Year!”, but rather, Happy Beginning of an Eternal Existence, starting with a Life-changing 2023! |
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