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In my poetry, I try to include all aspects of the human condition. Love and pain, sin and redemption, life and death and all that lies in between.
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Thirteen Silk Verses
War
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
Winter Tales | Cyprus Poems
A mystic poem of frozen landscapes, pirates, and forbidden allure, weaving a tapestry of enchantment and danger.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
A Sailor Has to Die | Cyprus Poems
The glorious colonel / —disguised as a future legend— / skulks in a musty cave, dispatching / urgent orders to his retreating army...
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
The Troubadour's Flute | Cyprus Poems
A poem about the power of art to capture a moment in time, and the beauty of innocence.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
July 1974 | Cyprus Poems
In the brutal summer heat / machine-gun fire rages on / Corpses are rotting in the streets / mothers keen their dead sons...
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
I Will Bake a Cake | Cyprus Poems
My darling son / there is a cry for war / across the land / by those who have no sons / and it calls for you to go...
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
A Shameless Thief | Cyprus Poems
A quick shower behind the mouldy curtain/with cheap soap, cheap shampoo/and an even cheaper scent...
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
The Cemetery | Cyprus Poems
I see their names carved in stone / on marble crosses with roots of bone...
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