Cyclades Poems


Cyclades

they often
say hair and
fingernails grow
longer when one 
is happily relaxed

they often say hair 
and fingernails 
grow longer 
when one is 
lifelessly 

dead

my breathing has gone 
from a shallow yawn
to something short
of a sigh
once i

stayed on
an isle and
a mirrorless
summer
simmered

passing by 
my heart pacer
taking time as fast
as the mules 
taking mail

to the cliff 
topped town
of Thira
a turtle vs
snail race

sitting in a cafe
sipping a frappe
an hour into 
drinking
when

someone's sound
broke my silence
asking how long
i'd grown my
beard

thoughts in Greek
and English speech
which of these
let me take
you down

to
Elysium's
Fields
Categories: cyclades, muse,
Form: I do not know?

The House of Winds and Waters

Two emerald coasts frame
the cape of the ancient pirates
Among its smooth greyish white rocks 
cedar trees being grown faintly within the centuries 
their volume curved exposing to exogenous powers 
their lawless shadow, a shelter 
under the strong Mediterranean sun.

North wind’s continuous touch
intercepts worries that being fired
shifts them far to the mountainous villages
until their thin structure accedes to the hasty clouds
becomes one with the view; thoughts, cliffs, sun and sky.
Hair disheveled, blown towards all directions
fragments of sand all over the skin.

Morning dreams lave in the water edge
dazzling crystal surface of the sea hurts the eyes
Aqua iridescences invite to be integrated
A deep breath, the playful buoyance and I caress
the wave’s ripples being embossed on the fine pearly sand 
of the untrodden seabed, pure light and eternal time, 
my underwater kingdom lasts as my longest breath.

* A poem inspired by the place "Mikri Vigla" in Naxos island, Cyclades Greece.
Categories: cyclades, beach, inspiration, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse


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