Feelins and Words2

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5.5x8.5 paperback, 108 pages

George Pafitis writes poems of contemplation. Whether he is considering nature or human behavior, his poetry permits the reader to see into his mind and see through his eyes. Poems of sense memories, poems of sensual description and allusion, unexpected humor and downright whimsy, poems political, poems of everyday life all keep company with poems revealing deep emotion. Open Pafitis’ book to any page and you’ll be opening the goings-on in his heart and head. A fine read.
~ Dd. Spungin is a member and host of Performance Poets Association™ (PPA) and Poets In Nassau, and is a prolific writer of poetry.

SAMPLE POEMS:

Nature’s Light And Wind Show

Branches bend, leaves flutter
drift away taken by wind,
fall through light, scrape the ground.

Nature’s motion strips leaves
from branches, their arms
reaching out, pointing in all directions
embracing air with dedication.

The tree stands taut touching heights,
a reach in pure wind, invisible light
filling my eyes in a flickering dance...

and the tree remains.

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Just Because

Because there will be time
and because we have
one mind about so much.

I know all about it
but because it would have been
worthwhile after all.

To bite it all off and wonder
because we linger in some
shapeless cloud looking down.

Since tasting the peach,
I wipe my hand
across my mouth in lust.

Because juice dripped on my shirt,
I still smell the peach, see the stain,
feel the crust, and hear myself blaspheme.

Because I do not worry and
go on and since I do not
hope to do it again.

And because the cigar is burning
on the ground, the smoke rising
gracefully, amorphously.

Escaping, melding,
circling upward into a time
and space forever hidden...

because.

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The Road Not Taken By Most

There are roads not traveled by most of us,
like learning that people’s nails get pulled out,
they are tortured or hear sounds of horror in battles,
see bodies crisped by napalm, see a child’s
cheek melting as jaw unlocks.

They walked the fields when Agent Orange was
dropped from planes, they didn’t know
about Agent Orange then.

But they knew when the sky was red
with fire and the moon burnt orange;
they knew it was the last they would see.

Yes, this is the road the Gook and Charlie walked,
and their progeny hear the echoes of their footsteps,
feel the bones corroding in the rice paddy
and wonder about the road.

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In the fall of 2003, George Pafitis joined the Poetry Workshop Class at the Great Neck Community Education Center, where he began writing and experiencing poetry under the direction of Evelyn Kandel and Kent Ozorow. George still attends the workshop which is under the direction of Evelyn Kandel since 2009. George also attends and participates in Performance Poets AssociationTM (PPA) readings regularly and other Long Island poetry events. His poems have been published in the PPA Literary Review and the NCPLS (Nassau County Poet Laureate Society) Anthology. In 2014, George published his first book of poetry, Feelings and Words Traveling Together; and now, Feelings and Words Traveling Together Vol. 2. George is a retired businessman whose professional work was salesperson of advertising media from 1968 through 2002. Since retiring, his avocation has been writing and studying poetry; he finds the poetry experience pleasurable and rewarding.

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