ODYSSEUS ELYTIS'S JOURNEY

Astonishment of travelogues
from living friends
seeing shepherds and warriors
in dream locations
beside mountains and the sea
at evensong in a sunlight of July
from visionary lamps
late at insomnia's midnights
we have not forgotten
the last waiting oars
on the trembling river dawns
along the mermen shore of ships
when siren's pass by
in the emptiness of searching
for love in the shadowy cry
in her red lips under lanterns
on a burning apocalypse of oils
by wonders of chiming glances
under an Athenian eyelid window
watching the sparrows windy sky
whose city vice and voice
sweeps by closed doorways
of the long leaves
as a sailor on the Aegean
by a Eucalyptus balm
eyeing the living bees
undisclosed by roses
against the fearless heat
in the heart of the trees garden.