Chris Zachariou
A Century of Sleep | Cyprus Poems
I buried my songs / in a wooden hut / and in the shade / of scented candles / I saw the Trisagion grieve /in the young girl's tears...
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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.
Chris Zachariou
Mar 10, 2023
Ophelia Lost | Cyprus Poems
Ophelia is so beautiful / swimming in the murmurs of the morning / and in the red and purple sighs of sunset...
Chris Zachariou
Mar 9, 2023
The Epitaph | Cyprus Poems
She rises silently— / remote, pale, and peaceful. / Under the stern gaze of the saints / she shrouds herself in candlelight...
Chris Zachariou
Aug 18, 2022
The Assassin's Tale | A Tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca
A death poem dedicated to Lorca, Spain's greatest poet, who was murdered by Franco's thugs on 19 August 1936.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
Africa | Anti-War Poems
The starving people of Africa, the Western World's shame.
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 Passion Play | A Tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca
The gypsy and the dwarf whimper. /
They are frightened of the man /
wearing a black sombrero /
and with jackdaw feathers on his lips.
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
Yemen's Children | Anti-War Poems
Τhe devastating impact of conflict on the most vulnerable—children—whose innocence is irrevocably shattered in the process.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
Alan Kurdi | Anti-War Poems
Alan Kurdi, α refugee child fleeing the civil war in Syria who drowned in the Aegean Sea.
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