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Zakis

out on the horizon

About Me

my real name is Sotirios, which is Greek, but i've gone by Nick over the years. when i was younger, i didn't like it but now i respect my 'real' first name. graduated college with a bachelor's degree in history. do freelance writing. do some volunteer work. have written a lot of verse which explores nature, the cosmos, eroticism and mystical experience. would like to join the PeaceCorps someday. for me mysticism is a necessity as is an appreciation for nature and beauty. also find philosophy and psychology fascinating.

My Interests

poetry, nature, mysticism, music, hiking, women, volunteering, existentialism, etc. the truth is out there.

I'd like to meet:

someone with something intelligent to say. drop me a line.

Music:

a variety. i can listen to death and black metal and switch gears to something progressive like porcupine tree or dream theater and then listen to jazz and then something experimental like mike patton or anything ambient. classical music is really good, too. over the past ten years, my preference has always been extreme music.

Movies:

reservoir dogs, bad lieutenant, mean streets, the machinist, the outfit, thief, straight time, the driver, infernal affairs, the assassination of richard nixon, leo, the usual suspects, the funeral, fingers, the killers, lost highway, heat, manhunter, the killer elite, cross of iron, bring me the head of alfredo garcia, pollock, the insider, the thin red line, eraserhead, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, seven samurai, yojimbo, husbands, the killing of a chinese bookie, faces, under suspicion, kiss the girls, mikey and nicky, fulltime killer, for a few dollars more, hostage, hard-boiled, the killer, the passenger, withnail and i, the scalphunters, opening night, henry v, braveheart, oldboy, judgment night, the longest day, the parallax view

Television:

WOUNDI.Forget today.I've already fallen.Far away from light.Cold in these depths of dark.No stars go through a mourning horizon.Sleep covering me.Ashes of the sun linger.Tomorrow knows nothing.II.Imperial Wrath.When time melted with the birth of jasmine.Hours of sunlight fell asleep and left.Which dimension leads back to you ?III.Jewels showered the morning sky.Purple and bronze majesties.The dance of autumnal leaves and aether with a summer gale.Through fields and forests in search of truth.IV.With which enigma do you belong ?For years I've pondered the beauty you stream forth.Sleepless nights attempting to unlock the domain to your awareness.Days, too often, wondering if anything can remain true.Recalling that your words could be a poisonous bliss.Nearly forgetting, in oblivion's outpost, that your seemingly placid gestures slay one and all.V.Lull me to sleep when all of heaven is tumultuous and distraught.With dreams, I pursue hidden marvels and grandiose feats that no words can describe.With waking words, you tend to grow anxious and distant from utopian shores.No longer explore the futile lands of this maddening reality.Steal a moment in an opalescent chamber.Enter the forest of Elysium.VI.You resemble a spring day.I've noticed this during the hours and months that fly beyond.A gentle breeze brings me closer to you even when I try to ignore.The simple sunsets and happy flowers are so much more surreal when I breathe your innocence.Even if I grabbed the golden wings of a phoenix to escape, your beauty would still find me and lead onward to one destiny.VII.Summer may leave but don't break.At the skyline, sun and moon converge.Twilight and dawn could be one and the same.Gold and orchid skim the ocean waves.Lost no longer but all the more exhausted.

Books:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Art of Living (by Epictetus), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Lords of Chaos, Johnny Got His Gun

Heroes:

Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, George Sterling, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Washington Irving, Apollonius of Tyana, Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce

My Blog

New Poem

ReverieA waterfall sparkles, with the colors of the rainbow, in an enchanted vale.Stars of pearl and aurulent splendor ornament the shades of azure.Opalescence enlightens the spheres beyond.An aftergl...
Posted by Zakis on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:07:00 PST

Sunset Dreams

Sunset DreamsA sunset with citron and roseate hues.Terraces adorned with lilacsand jessamine.A spectral ship sets sail oncrystalline blue oceans.The ecstasy of a prismaticsky....
Posted by Zakis on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:35:00 PST

take me away

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Posted by Zakis on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:52:00 PST

beauty

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Posted by Zakis on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:10:00 PST

dreams - - -

old poem revisited.DREAMS IN THE VOID Away from the twilight's crystallized glare, the shades ofslumber drift towards fountains of glistening silver and bronze. Moonbeams hang from the cold remnants o...
Posted by Zakis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

bare autumn days

Bare Autumn DaysLeaves of gold, orange and brown are ablaze upon the azure horizon.Clouds of white drift into the realm of the stars.Autumn reaches the zenith of glory beyond weeping summer's shadow.T...
Posted by Zakis on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:52:00 PST

dawn

DAWNThese last days bring the fond embrace of autumnal leaves and a mystic sun.Solitude lingers, below the pines, as a zephyr carries the ashes of summer into shades unknown.A vast empyrean, of orchid...
Posted by Zakis on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:19:00 PST

nature's beauty.

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Posted by Zakis on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:39:00 PST

remnant - poem

REMNANTBeyond ancient forests, the beauty of the night surrounds.Cold breezes drift through the forgotten vales where summer once held its radiant ceremonies.An autumnal moon hovers upon a blue horizo...
Posted by Zakis on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:30:00 PST

old poems rediscovered

Brief note:  Although these poems are nothing special, for me, they are mere examples of my interest in nature, the cosmos and mystical experience.  To make it more simple, writing poetry is...
Posted by Zakis on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:31:00 PST