Best Thessaloniki Poems

Ouzo, oh ouzo,can make your head verily spin
But it made me feel like I was morphing into Aphrodite's twin!
And, more potent were your eyes stare and long eyelashes.
Dancing the Greek soldiers dance, OPA and in proud sashes.


Decades down life’s river, in the boat of life,...

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I left my heart in Thessaloniki;
I left my love by the Aegean Sea. 
What in the world, 
what in the world,
is happenin' to me?...

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The Greek Taverna 

Where can you be, dancer of my soul?
I want it be 1967 right now.
Where I can walk into the Minerva
Be seated by a handsome host,
And with my heart pounding..you are now walking towards me.

The red and white, checkered tablecloths -all fresh
My heart beating faster...

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Ah, finding the right Greek to go
after!
That stole my soul forever with
love and laughter!

Twas my glimmering treasure trove 
to secure.
I admit fully to being anything
but shy and demure!

His buoyancy, his enigmatic zeal
while we soaked our toes in the...

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Whatever magic elixir did you add to my drink?
That the thrill of you in my sacred soul never shrinks?

Minutes of decades ago bubble and laugh so happily in my veins.
I close these deep brown eyes, thinking of you, like the finest of
champagnes.

I find myself sacredly...

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