COUNTRY


Country, land of my ancestors
Place of my breath
You walk with me in my adventures
Deep in this foreign isle of tears

Whenever I feel like a stranger here
You rest my head on the shores of Hellas
Reminding me of the beauty of my youth
And the gift to the world of a new born child

Now you are old you still look young
As the earth struggles through the hardship
My hair turns grey each lonely day
Urban pavements paint the stanzas

Rain falls like statues from my frown
The sky toppled like a memorial sea of blue
I turn a corner and pass chances everlasting
To one day lay with you





THE LONG JOURNEY BACK TO THIS


On this bed of silk and roses
Time leaves me withered and strange
Homeland I hear you calling loudly
Through pebbled streets of unknown fame

Horse and carriage there will take me
To a rocky hot sea of love
My life is written in this azure sky
As if swimming through lines that I wrote presently, oh to be as free as a dove, the long journey back to this begins, on this  bed...

Of silk and roses
Time leaves me withered and strange
Homeland I hear you calling loudly
Through pebbled streets of unknown fame

Horse and carriage there will take me
To a rocky hot sea of love
My life is written in this azure sky
As if swimming through lines that I wrote presently, oh to be as free as a dove, the long journey back to this begins, on this bed...






Ithaka

Ithaka
Isle of longing
So dear to my heart
I see you everywhere
But I can never reach your shores
From this ship
I hear you calling
Far away
Sailing for years
Since I left lonely Troy
But I will arrive one day
Stepping out my front door
One cold morning
Ithaka
Its calm horizon
In front of my eyes



Wine Fermentation

The island separated from the land
The individual separated from the populace
The ship floating on the sea
The sun floating in the sky
Words rushing down the mountains
Hilly landscapes creating spaces
Through ravens and paragraphs
Whilst novels are written
Under textured skies
Full of stars and the moon
Floating in the night



Window Seat

The North Pole
Ice bergs peaking here and there
Surrounded by the vast ocean
Still crystal clear water
Beneath the depths
The lost land of Atlantis
Sunken over time
As I look out of the aeroplane window
In the horizon I see the sky touching
the ice and sea
Ascending up a stripped meaning



Into the Blue

As my feet sink into sun-drenched paradise
I look out to the seventh sea
The sun beaming on my happiness
My mind at one with nature

Suddenly I dive into the great beyond
For a few seconds I disappear from it all
Only to come back from the blue
My first breath of summer
Soaking my memories for weeks to come

A church on the hillside praying
The wind turbines cooling me from the winter pain
London so far away now
Lemnos beautiful and strong
Writing words for evermore
As cars weave in and out of mountainous roads
Touching the sea-coloured skies
Reaching homeward
But now where home is
Nobody knows



Delphi
 
On this mountaintop
Silence fell like thunder,
As I climbed up the steps of the temple at Delphi,
To ask the oracle What it means to be alive?
Written at the entrance were the words,
''Everything in good measure''.
 
I look away.
Up here I am so high in the heavens,
Yet below the sea is so beautiful in the distance.
The sun warming me reflecting the rise and fall of man,
Soaring with the giants of time!
My footsteps disappear in the dust.
 
 
 
The Labyrinth
 
As the sun sets over my life
I spend my days waiting for a ship that never arrives
Out there in the vastness of the blue sea
 
Will the sails be white?
In this blackest of night
Has Theseus killed the minotaur?
I hear Ariadne is in love
Am I destined to spend my life wandering through this labyrinth?
 
As the sun sets over my life
I spend my days waiting for a ship that never arrives
Out there in the vastness of the blue sea
 
This ball of thread unravels at a steady pace
Each corridor a hopeful mystery
King Minos and his palace holds a spell over me
Crete builds its dreams meticulously
 
As the sun sets over my life
I spend my days waiting for a ship that never arrives
Out there in the vastness of the blue sea
 
Ariadne aligned to the sun god Helios
Eternally searching for her confidant
Sailing on and on towards Hellas
Rising and setting each step of the way
The marble temple on the cape of her heart
A foreigner to these shores of chance
  
As the sun sets over my life
I spend my days waiting for a ship that never arrives
Out there in the vastness of the blue sea
 
Suddenly in the distance I see a light
Like a far off galaxy too beautiful to reveal
Is this the ship I have been exhausting for?
A trick of the light by pale moonlight?
Maybe Poseidon in all his might?
 
As the sun sets over my life
I spend my days waiting for a ship that never arrives
Out there in the vastness of the blue sea
 
For all I know it is the ship who has spotted land first
It is my son who has finally seen me
For it is these gleaming ships who have power over me
I am but a lone star out there in the horizon
Shining endlessly from the Sounion rock
Each one of us masters and victims of our own tragedy
 
As the sun sets over my life
I spend my days waiting for a ship that never arrives
Out there in the vastness of the blue sea
 
From his ship Theseus wanders
Has my father seen my safe return?
As the sun sets over my life
Are my sails white?
In this blackest of night
Will he jump from the cliff face into the Aegean sea?
Am I destined to spend my life wandering through this labyrinth?
I know Ariadne is in love