Chris Zachariou
A Merciless Queen | Toxic Love
A poem about toxic love that poisons a relationship with constant bickering and arguments that lead to pain, separation, and loneliness.
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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
Aug 6, 2022
She Loves You Not | Melancholy Poems
A poignant poem delving into the emotional turmoil of unrequited love as the narrator grapples with feelings of inadequacy and uncertainty.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
The Metronome | Mosaics
The poem echoes a man’s loneliness and captures the rhythmic monotony juxtaposed with a butterfly's transformative journey.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
Selene | Melancholy Poems
A journey through the ephemeral beauty of love under moon's gaze, where desire and loss dance in the lunar cycle's embrace.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
Flowers for Leonard
Thank you / for the beauty / the word / and for the song...
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
A Hero of Our Times | Melancholy Poems
Τhe poem delves into the anguish of a narrator whose idyllic vision of domestic bliss is ruptured by the actions of a charismatic interloper
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
A Wrecked Life | Melancholy Poems
In “A Wrecked Life,” from “Melancholy Poems,” regret consumes as the poet reflects on lost chances and the enduring ache of past mistakes.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
Circe and the Siren | A Coming-of-Age Poem
This poem presents an allegorical and idiosyncratic interpretation of the myth that suggests the angst and dreams of youth.
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
Tiger Lilies | Toxic Love
All that noise and sabre-rattling. / Really! / And you threatened me with bloodshed at the trenches and the barricades...
Chris Zachariou
Aug 6, 2022
Little Butterfly | Toxic Love
You flirted so sweetly. / Oh, how you laughed when / he teased you and how / cute you looked, blushing
the way you did...
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