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As a second disclaimer, and as the first line of the collection

warns, much of the content was conceived and written down sponta-
neously. Thus, some material may not make sense. Nevertheless, I
have worked on much of this spontaneous content to make it com-
prehensible. Many of the poems also have metre or rhyme. I lean to-
wards the view that Art is created to be shared, and so with the effort

for (neo-formalistically) understandable verse, I hope something will
touch you, even as a song hopefully one day!
The third disclaimer concerns the length of the poems. You may

find the poems short, perhaps because the author was forced to write
one each day. However, many others from the pool of the 470 poems
are lengthier. Those poems are either extensive narratives, or mael-
stroms of thought. In contrast, most of the poems in this collection
come from a single thought, feeling, or image, as seen through a

window in a moment of reflection on unrequited Love...
The fourth disclaimer is related to the English rendition from the
original Greek: should the rhyme and metre of the original poems be

preserved, and at what cost to the meaning? In the end, the trade-off
was to make the least changes to the meaning to preserve the rhyth-
mic and homophonic character of the Greek version.
As a fifth and final disclaimer, this dissertation is not yet accessi-
ble to people with disabilities, e.g. those with visual impairments, but

I would like to make it so, should you consider it worthy!

Danis,

Polichni, Summer of 2025

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