Rose Garden
Rose Garden



Readings: Genesis
Readings: Genesis
Readings: Genesis
George Demetriou
George Demetriou
Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth
Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth
2025
On the world’s bank beyond
I trace the wind,
The breath of hyacinths
The mist of faded braids on a pale girl’s sorrow.
A violet's evening dress
Striving
For an intersection
Between hand and heart
With the antenna of a butterfly
On new moon
Milking
The scent of carefree souls, dreaming
And those that pain torments,
I wander the unknown:
The incense of our soul
How innocence is redeemed
In the Divine register
The prayers’ reciprocal
On the pristine sands of Paradise
The rising of supplications
To reach
The ruins of chapel “Worthy is your pilgrimage”.
Does it anoint with blessing
Or does the world's vanity disperses
Virtue
And from nothingness death is reclaimed?
The pulse of life
The alpha-beta of bees
That disinfects the depths of silence
On the petals of lilies, the spring loneliness of a caterpillar
And its unexpected into fairy transfiguration
In mid ocean a mermaid's vision
The mercury reviving memories
Of sailors’ tales
At night, on deck, drinking moonlight
The divine fulfilment of void
And the absent Goddess of All
The endless
But continuously beginning;
From trunks that deceived the axe
To the wrestling of crabs and waves
From the underground winter sparkle of the sun of the hyperboreans
To the wet dreams of the harvest just before seeds awaken.
The expanse of the Cosmos
Of my dreams, in which for leagues and leagues I wandered
drowned in sable silence
Between emptiness that freezes your veins
And effulgence that evaporates illusion
In the firmament
Of convex mirrors, indiscreetly overseen by fireflies
Naive traveller
Of the vastness of a red blood cell
And the barely visible mark of a white dwarf,
The open wound I tend
Of the unyielding knowledge of the Gods
Bleeding life’s insoluble and gelid anodyne
But who is to harvest?
On the world’s bank beyond
I trace the wind,
The breath of hyacinths
The mist of faded braids on a pale girl’s sorrow.
A violet's evening dress
Striving
For an intersection
Between hand and heart
With the antenna of a butterfly
On new moon
Milking
The scent of carefree souls, dreaming
And those that pain torments,
I wander the unknown:
The incense of our soul
How innocence is redeemed
In the Divine register
The prayers’ reciprocal
On the pristine sands of Paradise
The rising of supplications
To reach
The ruins of chapel “Worthy is your pilgrimage”.
Does it anoint with blessing
Or does the world's vanity disperses
Virtue
And from nothingness death is reclaimed?
The pulse of life
The alpha-beta of bees
That disinfects the depths of silence
On the petals of lilies, the spring loneliness of a caterpillar
And its unexpected into fairy transfiguration
In mid ocean a mermaid's vision
The mercury reviving memories
Of sailors’ tales
At night, on deck, drinking moonlight
The divine fulfilment of void
And the absent Goddess of All
The endless
But continuously beginning;
From trunks that deceived the axe
To the wrestling of crabs and waves
From the underground winter sparkle of the sun of the hyperboreans
To the wet dreams of the harvest just before seeds awaken.
The expanse of the Cosmos
Of my dreams, in which for leagues and leagues I wandered
drowned in sable silence
Between emptiness that freezes your veins
And effulgence that evaporates illusion
In the firmament
Of convex mirrors, indiscreetly overseen by fireflies
Naive traveller
Of the vastness of a red blood cell
And the barely visible mark of a white dwarf,
The open wound I tend
Of the unyielding knowledge of the Gods
Bleeding life’s insoluble and gelid anodyne
But who is to harvest?