CHRYSSA VELISSARIOU

CHRYSSA VELISSARIOU

A STRANGE MERMAID

Most of the time

She feels people are looking through her

Just as if she was invisible

Although she feels filled with love

Just as a knocking cymbal

"Oh my sweet mother!"

cried out the daughter of the mermaid

"You whose the lament has been heard to the end of the Earth!

You whose the voice is scarcely interpreted by the enlightened ones!"

She is walking around the Earth

Through the seven seas

As a wave energy or just material

She will accept to be buried in a human tomb

None will recognise her existence

None will observe her fish tail

None will pay attention to her scream

Because she speaks the language of the many

And peoples wish their own solitude

Well she is a prophet neglected because of her super-sound voice

She is a lamenting aura

An exploding nothingness

Breathing with gills in a world where others are pumping air with their lungs

©ChryssaVelissariou2019

THE GARDEN

I have a garden

With wonderful flowers

By the time you went away my heart collapsed so rapidly

that I fell in despair.

I ignored and neglected my garden.

I was not watering it,

I was just weeping but still

my garden survived thanks to my tears

My garden amazed me growing wonderful roses

And the roses were whispering " Lord, save us!"

I started from the beginning learning how to take care of my hidden Eden

You can see there so many miracles which could make you smile like me.

They could make you remember the unscathed bliss of your  universal existence.

The treasure within you that is not futile, that you suspect it is immortal.

And it might be ...

So I have my little paradise

where I often embrace crosswise myself

and derive pleasure.

I heal the wounded part of me there and if not, I treat it well at least

Please, Do Not Be Afraid, you cannot hurt me, my beloved!

Even if that was your wish, but of course it never was.

I keep alive for you the perennial tree that Grew there

Whenever its flowers blossom orange

-the color of happiness and lasting joy-

I'll come to offer them to you.

Just to see your smiling eyes

Or maybe just because the Garden Of my Soul becomes more beautiful when

occasionally

It is fed by Your Presence

Without overwhelming the narrow path of your Precious Liberty

©ChryssaVelissariou2014

THE HUMAN HYENAS

Once a human raises his head

Above the mediocre mass

Raged herds of hyenas smell him

They covet him

They wish to devour him

They persecute him until he's left in his solitude

And then they rush on him to tear him into pieces With their nails

They Desire His Flesh

They Desire His Blood

They Desire His Brains

They Desire His Heart

They Wish So Badly To Absorb His Soul In The Dark

I saw many times the red twinkling eyes Of human Hyenas In the Dark

That's Why I Fear So Badly To Get Out Of My Lightened Shell

That's Why I Live In Here Peacefully With Snakes And Scorpions

They respect me and I respect them

I don't approach them so they don't killl me with Their Venom

In general I live isolated

In my Shell

All my life In Embryum Position

Or I would be obligated

To mutate into a hyena in Their Herd

In my Dreams I Rise Burning like a Star

And I Put on Fire the Horizon

©ChryssaVelissariou2019

CHRYSSA VELISSARIOU

CHRYSSA VELISSARIOU, a published poet in Greek and English, has been honored as the 1st International Beat Poet Laureate of the National Beat Poetry Festival 2017 and as a Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate of the same festival in 2019 in USA. She has more than 3000 poems on her blogs. She was a host in Greece of poetic events for the International Beat Poetry Festival 2015 and 2018 , for the Poetathon 2013 and the Peaceathon 2015, W P Canada and International, for the 100TPC 2015 and for the Woman Screen 2019. She is a Peace Activist and she has been the W P Canada International Peace Ambassador 2014-16 to Greece. She is a Professor of Physics (Space Physics), specialized also in NT Education, honoured and awarded by the Ministry of Education, Greece. She is also an elected Member of her hometown Municipality.