Friday, August 21, 2015

Thracian Eve

              Thracian Eve
Subsequent, the fog walls act,
(dance solitaire of its white sway),
the sovereign of woods display, 
- adaxially, his life protract. 

Amidst the woods and in the haze, 
(diffused in air's the misty light)
advertent nymph in veiling white 
- and ancient their spirits' phase. 

An aisling, she appeared, and ere 
her solitude his stare absorbed 
she spelled his name - a song birds curbed 
- betrothal mountains' claim of e'er. 

A melody of singing aves 
upon the slopes where lantern-moons, 
interconnected with the tunes, 
- aloneness of her festal Eves. 

Belike beams floated on air streams 
the Gods invited while fog's soars 
agremones clothe ancient wars 
entwined with Strymon's seaward themes. 

Aberdevines on Thracian wold 
and nightingales' expanded song 
the mountain mists embrace erelong 
- abthane the temples eyes behold. 

Her flight has reached the ether's heights 
steep slopes that mortals followed thence,
amid the thymes their lives commence,
when nightingales invite the nights.

© 05-24-2013, G. Venetopoulos, All rights reserved
(Iambic tetrameter)