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Poetry
by Chris Zachariou
United Kingdom


Τάκης Ζαχαρίου

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Γιαλούσα, Κύπρος

Writer's pictureChris Zachariou

Tiger Lilies | Toxic Love


Tiger Lilies is a poem about a girl with green eyes by the Cyprus poet Chris Zachariou about toxic love.
Green Eyes

All that we buried deep

has now risen to the fore.

The anger, the fury and the rage.

This reveals to me so much more

than your rhymes will ever say.

But my irate young queen, only you

and I know just what the truth has been.

I came to your garden late last night.

How beautiful it seemed, in such a perfect

kind of way.

Everything was so cute and pretty.

But where were the tiger lilies that

nourished our fledgling art?

All that noise and sabre-rattling. Really!

And you threatened me with bloodshed

at the trenches and the barricades.

Swords at dawn, was your cry of war.

But no, I'm not into that. I will just love you

and bring you flowers instead.


Part of the mosaics cycle of poems

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