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Greek Christmas Poem
I got this from Demo today, from our Greek friends in Hamilton, ON CA.
Twas The Night Before Hristouyenna
T’was the night before Hristouyenna and all through the spiti
I could smell fasolatha & pasticho through my miti.
Pandofles were hung on the fireplace quite low ,
Hoping Ayios Vasilis would bring some poto.
Patera in his krevati was snoring pretty hard,
Tired from stealing the tree from our malaka neighbours’ yard.
Mama was in the basement cooking like a nikokira ,
adding just enough lemon to her fresh made horta.
When the thorivo came from outside the porta,
Baba yelled from his room ‘ela mesa re malaka’.
The knocking on the door, such a rude, loud barage ,
I yelled through the window ‘It’s a Greek house re malaka, come in through the garage!’
Then, standing in the garage right next to my car,
was my drunk Thio Mitso coming home from the bar.
‘Ainde kimisou methismene’ I told him with might,
‘you’ll ruin my chances of seeing Ayio Vasilis tonight’.
About two hours later I heard a noise down the stair,
I jumped from my krevati to see who was there.
Standing by the tree eating leftover fakkes,
Was Ayios Vasilis reeking of tsiporo no less.
He was all dressed in red and as big as an ox,
Wearing brown pandofles along with black socks.
Smelling like a katsiki with a touch of ‘Old Spice’,
He’d been drinking for days and smelled not very nice.
He was putting the presents out under the tree,
They were wrapped like skata, it was quite plain to see.
Vrakyia & 6 kaltses from Myer for me,
and 12 for my brother coz he’s only 3.
This Santa was paraxenos, nothing like the fable,
Before leaving he stole my tsigara from the table.
I yelled ‘Eh, Ay’ Vasili, ti kaneis ekie?’
and he turned and he threw his ‘pandofla’ at me.
The look in his eyes was nothing but fright,
He said ‘fiye upo tho , re malaka’ and dashed out of sight.
And he called to his reindeer, and called them by name
I knew they were not the same animals from ‘Jingle Bell’ fame.
‘ Ela Mitso, Sotiri, ke Nektario,
Yianni kai Taki, Thanasi kai Yiorgo …’
‘Ainde grigora na pao ya katourima’,
and he yelled as he went ‘KALA XRISTOUYENNA’.
Why Being Greek is Great
I got this from my cousin, Demo:
Why Being Greek is Great
- Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts.
- Because we never visit others empty handed.
- Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what is “kapsoura” (burning desire for someone).
- Because in Greece family is still something valuable.
- Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment.
- Because we were slaves for 400 years yet never bring that up as an excuse for our current state.
- Because we are everywhere around the planet.
- Because “filotimo” (friend of honour, helping someone because it is a shame not to) does not exist in any other language.
- Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they use one of ours.
- Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family, not with shrinks.
- Because Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were Greek.
- Because we invented theatre.
- Because we gave birth to Democracy.
- Because we discovered logic.
- Because we jumpstarted science.
- Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars.
- Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still sleeping on trees
- Because we gave the light to all these leaders who are “striving” for peace by making wars.
- Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) and Agapi (innocent love), while we feel both of them passionately.
- Because Eros was a Greek God.
- Because we gave the oath “freedom or death”.
- Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin we were weaving see-through linen.
- Because “Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like Greeks” (Winston Churchill,1941).
- Because we are not ashamed to cry.
- Because we dance when we are sad.
- Because we work to live and do not live to work.
- Because 97% of the stars’ names are Greek.
- Because when you shout “brother or cousin ” in the streets everyone turns around.
- Because the inside of all our churches are not dark but full of light.
- Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we reach 18.
- Because when we want to sunbathe, we go to the beach, we don’t crawl on grass or jump into fountains.
- Because our sun is healthy-you know this, bc grandma say it’s good for your bones
- Because we confront every difficulty with humor.
- Because the Olympic games were born in Greece.
- Because, with OUR (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the message of peace.
- Because our sky is blue, not grey.
- Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words.
- Because we know what “Kefi” (propensity to fun) means.
- When you people were eating leaves, we had cholesterol.
