Poetry by Maria Papayiannopoulou from Thessaloniki, Greece e-mail: loranthia@hotmail.com   Darkness is the canvas on which I paint my dreams in colors of the morning and shades of moonlight, so silky, so silvery, so shiny when the night has overthrown the day. As memories recall themselves in lucid pointy arrows, one by one, the hands of wisdom tie them into knots, meaningful balls of experience, of sense. Never a night so bright. Never a frown so joyfully expressed. Never a scream so filled with music. I walk along my shores and wet my feet in waves of rememberance and will.     BUT ONLY FEEL Was it a crime to feel you're mine When all around was pain? Was it for real I made you feel Your quest was not in vain? Abandoned dreams and craving flesh Irrational demands All tangled up in perfect mess Amidst our trembling hands Unanswered stand our questions, all As much as we both try But each time logic makes its call I hear our soulful cry Let destiny remain obscure Try not to draw its veil Let fantasy become the cure Think not; but only feel...       AND STILL THOSE DEVILS DANCE WITHIN Deprived of feelings, lost for words Abhorrent devils dance within Each breath cuts like a million swords Each thought a tribute to my sin. Uneasy dreams await my sleep As time relentlessly flies by The wounds I bear grow dark and deep But there are no more tears to cry. No grief; no pain; I've lost it all. The coldest cold has settled in. A lonely wolf, a lonely call And still those devils dance within.       UNION How can I trap my thoughts in words Can I enslave such wondrous birds? Elusive shadows dodge my hands I've lost my sight... A faceless soul, a pounding heart so close but yet so far apart I mourn my loss, I mourn my love I cry at night... What fate is this, so cruel and sweet, to sting my heart but numb my feet thus keeping me afar from him afar from Light... Still burn the fires deep inside my desperation I can't hide I dream again within my dream I'm there tonight... Oh dearest creature, is this real? I stretch my arms...your skin I feel! Lords of Beyond just take me now in sweet delight...       SPHERE Midnight flowers Desperate hours Painful thoughts away from you. Sounds and voices Helpless choices Everything you say and do. Feel the rhythm Hear our music Smell the perfume of the night. Touch me Take me Hold me Break me Be my darkness Be my light. Calm and Madness Smiles and Sadness Anything there is to be. Flesh uniting Hearts igniting Me is You And you is Me.       WORLDS Daylight and dark mixed up in one the street lamps on, to help the sun Drunk men and ladies hand in hand walk through the half-deserted land The clock strikes nine, the fog clears out I see two men who laugh and shout They turn and look me in the eye; and then they leave, without good-bye. Who am I now? Why did they go? How do I look? I have to know Why did they laugh? What did they see? Is it behind me or...is it me? Their laughter's loud, it hurts my ears. An old man looks at me and sneers. I hate this place, I want to go just tell me how, please let me know! The laughter stops.They dissapear. The place has changed but someone's near. His voice secures me, soft and deep: It's over now...go back to sleep.       KISS When Morning springs I do depart for places Veiled My Weary Heart cannot endure the Scorching rays that show its wounds I have to stay in Darkness, still I long for Thee thy Darkened Soul... My Veins implore for one more Bite of Sharp White Teeth in Candlelight And as I let my head fall back I close my eyes... I feel your presence, Cold and Dark Oh Come to me and make me Howl... Immortal Love of Shadowed paths Unchained once more Redeem me now and leave your Marks upon my Skin Eternally Embrace me in your Deadly Grip and show to me Oblivion...     Top | Back to Collected Poems | Back to Main Page