​Thirteen Silk Verses: Cyprus Poems, - A Poignant Tribute to the Love and Loss of a Young Life

Thirteen Silk Verses, from the Cyprus Poems collection, traces the fragile passage of a young life, stilled too soon, whose absence lingers like incense after the flame. These poems move within the sacred echoes of the Greek Orthodox rites, where the Trisagion tolls in solemn cadence and the cross stands sentinel over sorrow and remembrance.

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Her memory drifts through the verses, not as a tale plainly told, but as a presence felt—half-illumined, half-concealed. A laughter once known, a brightness once near, now flickers only in the hush between lines. Loss gathers there, unspoken, like a shadow folded into silk, heavy with the weight of what slipped away before its time.

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Through symbols woven of wind, water, and light, the poems open a threshold into the hidden terrain of grief and mystery. Here the familiar world leans toward the otherworldly, where each whisper of the sea and shimmer of the moon becomes an emblem, guiding the reader deeper into the silence where love and mourning are one.