Find the Code

Find the Code

This is a codify poem by Triantafyllos Vaitsis. The reason tha the poem has this form is that the artist wants to pass a message, that poetry is a codex. If so, someone wants to understand better the poetry, then he must decode the poets (to fined the way in which the poets “speak” – to solve the codex). To decode this particular code someone has to centre on the first line of the poem. There, if somebody read carefully, he will notice that every two letters the greek alphabet appears. There is a strange symbol in the place of “Η, “eta” which is to disorient the reader. In the end, if the letters of the alphabet were to be deleted then the poem it will remain, which it starts with the phrase “When I opened up to the sea of nice”. Similar is the way, when someone finds the way to decrypt the codex of the artist then he can “read” better the artist’s sculptures.
 
Below is the poem:
 

The Nice

  

When I opened up to the sea of nice, 

with the stirring-wheel vertically to the mole,

sweet was the wave that was eating,

my stern and my bow.

  

Next to the mast, I was standing, fixed, 

I was expecting the waters of nice with anguish,

not caring if they drown me or not.

 

Never did they touched me the waves of nice

as I wait many years now in the mast,

I am standing with my gaze on my feet

to see if the place suddenly floods.

  

Until death I will wait in the mast, the nice,

and if eventually forgets and does not show up,

nice will be the death to me,

comfort to the waiting of the nice. 

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