FIRE

Through a blaze

poems emerge

Honey dripping from the words that crafted them

Kiss goodnight to your tendencies

With your fiery tongue

Light up my life

She came holding lilies

Round she is and soft

Ashes and splashes of red

Remnants of his shabby image

Picked up his pieces in her warm embrace

Mended his wounds with her hair of gold

Nurtured by her secret melodies

He found a way

Alongside his studies in piano, Greek traditional music, and classical singing, Dimitris Kostarelos has been involved in writing lyrics and poems from a young age. This poetry collection, which marks his first literary appearance, includes two compositions of speech and image—artistic collage—that poetically capture the pathways of his dark imagination, existential terror, as well as the everyday life we all experience...