- Thracian Eve Poem by Georgios Venetopoulos

Thracian Eve

Subsequently the fog walls act
(dance solitaire of its white sway)
the sovereign of woods display
- adaxial his life protract.

Amidst the woods and in the haze
(diffused in air's the deep green light)
advertent nymph in veiling white
- and ancient Thracian spirits' phase.

An aisling she appeared and ere
her solitude his stare absorbed
she spelled his name - a song birds curbed
- betrothal mountains' claim of e'er.

A melody of singing aves
upon the slopes where lantern-moons
interconnected with the tunes,
- aloneness of her festal Eves.

Belike beams floated on air streams
the Gods invited where fog soars
agremones clothe ancient wars
entwined with Strymon's seaward themes.

Aberdevines on Thracian wold
and breeze in foliage straying song
as mountain mists embrace erelong
- abthane the temples eyes behold.

Her flight has reached the ether's heights
steep slopes that mortals followed thence,
amid the thymes their lives commence,
when nightingales invite the nights.