ODE TO LOVE

I love you ,

Thirsty as the fire

That raked everything

In my soul’s forests

At burnt moons’ nights

When fires were lit

In the  neighborhoods of the stars.

I love you,

Crazy as the storm

That shook the branches

On my imagination’s trees

When love was secretly walking by,

Music on my soul’s clavier .

I love you,

Impetuous as the light

Shedding transparent fans

On the uncharted landscapes of your body

When starlight sets sail

On the maiden voyage of my hands .

I love you,

Immense as night

When the lotus of lust matures

In the arms of secret gardens

And angels’ wings open

On the alleys of dream.

Vaso Brataki

                      

 

                                 

(The painting is created by Maria kazazi )

RHYMES OF ANARCHY

Within the border

outlined

by your eyes' embrace,

the sadder of a flame,

kept in a fireside

so well guarded,

in an ancient times' cocoon

And I,a wakening soul,

a caterpillar dreaming

of a butterfly's birth,

that dares flirting

with its own death

while silently marking

the beginning and the end

of a moment in time,

when becoming the sacrifice

for an infallible dream,

an illusion that bleeds

feeling the fire,

at the bottom of a heart.

Within the border

that divides

darkness from light,

silence shuddering,

when the castles of your voice

fall like chartaceous walls

And Love,

silently wondering

alongside sweaty horses' breath,

above the boys of stone

that shared the silence of the stars,

sleeping riders,

secret lovers of the stone

urging on their knees

for just one night

to exchange stone with flesh,

seeking to extinguish their eternal thirst

to become the travellers of dream

madmen over the centuries...

Lyrics: Vaso Brataki

Translated by Xaris Paraskevopoulou