ever ancient, ever new

[zirconium]

After visiting the Acropolis, last October, Saz and I walked back toward and through the Plaka. On our way down, we encountered a poem:



We later spotted it on several other buildings in Athens, but in this first instance, it had been spraypainted onto the wall of the Church of St. Elisseos. It's that square just to the right of the green door:



If I hadn't seen it up close -- were I looking at this picture for the first time -- I'd be assuming that the square was a metal screen or decorative cutout within the wall.

Comments

[twisted_times]

I wonder what the QR code points at. :)

[zirconium]

I don't own a smartphone, but I finally searched around the net a bit just now, which led to a a couple of similar qr codes on flickr that pointed to http://www.codepoetry.gr/.

As translated by Google: "The codepoetry poetry is a game in town.
QR codes scattered invite you to discover the poetry hidden in unsuspected corners.
With a smartphone scans the QR code you found him and leads to a 'random poem from the collection is constantly enriched hosted in codepoetry."

[twisted_times]

That's pretty cool and the poems are (I would hope) better than Vogon Poetry tends to be...