ELLI LAGIOU

 

 

Dreams On Hold

 

A glance

that refuses to fade.

A spring

that never touched summer,

still lingers.

 

Life’s fruit longs to sweeten,

to ripen, to be plucked…

But the season resists;

it waits, silent.

 

A touch

that became a migratory bird,

a swallow far away,

never forgetting its nest…

wounded, wingless.

 

Time moves swiftly,

memory leaves gaps,

yet never forgets

that adolescent gaze.

When spring turns to winter

and summer cannot reach,

the soul searches for lost desires,

even as hair turns gray.

 

The soul never ages, never forgets:

a caress that sprouted wings,

a “yes” that cannot rise,

a body unsure if it lives,

and another that longs deeply.

 

Courage arrived too late,

the “if” remains.

Yet the soul remembers

sunsets and dawns,

together, in waiting…

 

The Whisper Of The Moment

– Silent Waiting

 

In the silence of dusk,

anticipation ripens.

 

The wind falls quiet;

and waiting blooms.

 

Within the dim light,

it quietly guards the miracle.

 

In the half-light of dawn,

the answer hides.

 

The earth’s silence whispers:

“just a little longer.”

 

At the root of waiting,

the unpredictable flowers.

 

Every lowered gaze

hides a hope.

 

Waiting sets the stage

in the deserted heart.

 

In the flicker of the day,

tomorrow is built.

 

Where the gaze falls silent,

the journey begins.

 

ELLI LAGIOU

 

ELLI LAGIOU is a regular member of the Panhellenic Union of Writers of Greece (PEL) and of LNPSHA “PEGASI” in Albania. She has published the poetry collections Breath of the Soul (ΨΥΧΗΣ ΠΝΟΗ), Shades of Emotions (ΑΠΟΧΡΩΣΕΙΣ ΣΥΝΑΙΣΘΗΜΑΤΩΝ), and The Silence of Unseen Endurance (Η ΣΙΩΠΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΦΑΝΤΗΣ ΑΝΤΟΧΗΣ), a bilingual Greek–Albanian edition.