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623 · Aug 2016
Pictures
Dimitrios Sarris Aug 2016
Photos, they say that a picture worths like a thousand words and that's
the reason we take photographs. They can capture a moment so much better than words.
If life was an album in time, how can we know that the best of them aren't captured yet.
If life is a test of multiple choice, in what quantity are the choices our own
and how much are they depended from other people choices?
609 · May 2018
Never learn
Dimitrios Sarris May 2018
Your present being you curse so much
is the future you chose and will become
the past that unfortunately you will forget.
This is how you move on determined to a path
of self destruction
casually, incosiderably and
insusceptible of any admonition.
Never learn till all is gone
never learn till is too late
never learn till you please
the gods of your unawareness.
585 · Jul 2019
Muse
Dimitrios Sarris Jul 2019
They're still standing like statues of marble rock.
They still linger in humans hearts bearing the gift of old.
Nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne keeper
of world's memory.

With eloquence and harmony of voice Calliope presides in epic poetry.

In heaven of holy spirit Urania withers away
warden of philosophy.

Sacred is her hymn, sacred is her poetry, sacred is Polyhymnia
the dancer.

Joy and laughter brings Thalia with comedy and idyllic poetry
and men overcome their grief.

With a lyre in hand Clio tells the story of the world
but with no delight Melpomene narrates the tragedy of this world.

She is the loved one, the desired one Erato of loving poetry
giver of delight.

And close to the sea stood another, with a lyre in hand Terpsichore
dancing with her daughters, the Sirens.
567 · Oct 2018
Awakening
Dimitrios Sarris Oct 2018
I sense it around me, my heart denies it
but my soul knows the truth.
All i need is to say it out loud.
We are born in a world controlled by fear
and compulsions, slaves to a meaningless
purpose.
What is the point of existing just so we can
serve someone else wishes?
All i hope is to set myself free and i would
beg for others to do the same.
My instincts always served me well i can not
deny them now.
A distant voice echoes inside my head but for
the first time it is my own.
553 · Sep 2016
Milestone
Dimitrios Sarris Sep 2016
When you have the knowledge and power to change
something to prevent a stressful situation and you do not,
anything that comes out of it happens cause of you.
But then again even if you act, change, save, prevent,
it comes up with high cost.
My heart still questions the right choice...
550 · Apr 2017
Let it flow
Dimitrios Sarris Apr 2017
Life has moments worth living and
is too beautiful to insist into unavailing loves.
Life is too short trying constantly to fix
mistakes of the past,
is too subversive to rest upon provisional facts
for the scraps inflict new wounds
and all that matters is not how many wounds
have been opened but how many
can be closed.
544 · Dec 2017
Mist ahead
Dimitrios Sarris Dec 2017
Marched through dark veiled halls
and through forged spiked gates
walked through scorched dales and dried lakes
where the beast lie and gaze
where even demons fear to tread
this ash breathing wolf
with eyes glaring red sapphire
straight from hell's embrace.
Alas if he did not fight
Alas if he did not stand
for there was none else and
the need was dire.
Leaped around the giant like murky wolf
until his sword met the dark woven heart
but teeth and claws had taken their toll.
All seemed green and silver once again
music from the rustling leaves to soften
the pain of this spent fair soul.
Something different.
544 · Jan 2019
Mythos
Dimitrios Sarris Jan 2019
He is the brother i never had
he is the friend from far distant shores.

He is a writer a poet of life and wonder
a warrior worthy of Valhala
a hero worthy of Olympus
a soul worthy of Tir na nog from Celts.

Wildman he is called in my book
of elven folk grandmaster smith
which Hephestos himself teached
of ancient long forgotten craft.

A glass of old greek wine i raise
and wish to him Happy new year.
My gift to him my humble poem
my gift to him my gratitude
for being my brother.
Gratitude for being an inspiration.
Alas, for he is a man worthy of all
the blessings of the Gods.
Was written for a good friend from HP Mark,
thanking for being the brother i never had.
543 · Oct 2018
Known?
Dimitrios Sarris Oct 2018
What if happiness is not only joy.
What if happiness is the struggle you've been through
for a cause known only to a few,
yet full of love and compassion.
What if...
What if happiness is a light
seen only by few.
533 · Jan 2017
Make up our minds?
Dimitrios Sarris Jan 2017
People will always astonish us
with their words
with their actions
with their hidden personalities
but sometimes we surprise ourselves too,
with the unpredictable outcome of
our choices
our priorities
our point of view.
People the most distraught
animals in the planet.
531 · Nov 2016
Life
Dimitrios Sarris Nov 2016
Our life moves in circles,
always in the same blood vein,
every ending, every goal it's a new beginning.
Like a cloud i change, in time colour and shape
together entangle and i suspire in lifes thread...

Each one of us alone marches on, in love, in glory,
in death.
I know, i've tried...
It does not help, let me come with you...
531 · Jul 2016
Redemption aside
Dimitrios Sarris Jul 2016
Being perfect doesn't mean to be infallible.
Ηuman nature, a notion both determinant and controversial. Expressed strongly on both accounts.
It's about the relationship we have with ourselves,
our friends, our family, our most loved.
It means that you look them in the eye
and won't let them bend, falter, deceived.
Perfection is when you do everything you could and there was nothing else to sacrifice for what is worth.
Is to know that family does not start or end in blood and cares about you not for what you can do about them.
It's just there to the good, the bad and the worse.That they got your back even if it hurts so much...
513 · Aug 2016
Fragments
Dimitrios Sarris Aug 2016
Far from grace far more than anyone has ever imagined
with feelings that cloud my judgement.
A twilight so strong so unpredictable, trying to control
these emotions or the fight can not be won
for so many others have failed.
I learned from them but i will not follow for this might
be my last.
Shadows wispering broken sounds only a fraction of the
melody it used to be, silence fills the air.
Yet love was found where it wasn't suppose to be.
The burn, the pain, the struggle all my soul's
fragments ready to hear the melody again.
Rhythm well known, tone like none other,
brightness in eyes i've missed so much,
her arms surrounding my chest,
i'm in a safe dream...
511 · Oct 2017
Release me
Dimitrios Sarris Oct 2017
I am bearing my soul but you are bearing my heart.
The pain is great and i am begging for relief.
In angels and demons i don't believe yet
i am praying for your soul
i am praying for your heart.
In godless worlds your angel i shall be
in streaming shadows your guardian i shall be
my wings softly cover you and
in malicious acts my caress your relief.
497 · Aug 2016
Bad dream
Dimitrios Sarris Aug 2016
I slept and dreamed
not fields and forests
but darkness and bliss
angony consuming.

I walked a path, all so dark.
A black wolf appears with
old cold blue eyes.
It dragged me in darkness
with invincible might.

It growled and howl
like none of its kind.
I woke up in fear
the pain from its claws
was real.
496 · Aug 2016
Dilemma
Dimitrios Sarris Aug 2016
Secrets, small statues of glass well kept in hidden lockers for they are so easy to break. Secrets that are kept from others cause we are afraid that they will change their minds for us, or we will hurt them.
The reallity is that secrets hurt more than the truth we try to hide beneath them, but the greatest mistake is that we think we'll make our lives better keeping them well guarded.
People make the separation truth or courage when there is no difference. You need courage to speak the truth but even more to hear and accept it.
So truth or lie, light or darkness. It's so discouraging to know that mankind in such dilemma has a proclivity to choose the most self destructive option.
Like the fish in the water we are, swimming between nets. Other visible and other not. We can get trapped in them but not for a lifetime, cause we insist to forget that we weave them and unlike fish we could break loose whenever we want.
484 · Jun 2017
Explain
Dimitrios Sarris Jun 2017
There are times we entrust our happiness
in the hands of others, an act of love and
selflessness. Is it safe?
A choice out of trust but sometimes out of
loneliness and all it takes is a moment of
misunderstanding, a lack of explanation.
Nothing is as it seems to be for sure but then
again we believe that it would be better not
to explain, that things would be better this way.
Does it worth the pain?
Does it worth of letting go?
I am afraid for i start to forget her face, her voice.
Feelings i can not manage, i can not control
and all i want is to get lost into the sea of her green
eyes, lie upon her soft skin, rest into her warm hug
and kiss those red rose lips.
480 · Dec 2017
A story
Dimitrios Sarris Dec 2017
Since the beginning of time man kind
loved to tell and share stories.
Absolving ourselves from our own
and learn from others.
Stories might be different but all continue
with the same phrase "...and then?"
No matter how hard our lives can be we
all live with the same angony like when
we read a very good story. Turn the page
and find out what happens next.
Always look at the stars for in the sky are things
we can see and some we can not. Speak for the
things that others can not see for people like
to hear stories and shape their lives amongst
the stars, into the unknown.
467 · Aug 2017
untitled
Dimitrios Sarris Aug 2017
That which heart defines
don't let go.
That which heart dictates
try to let go.
It's unfair and sore
to hold what's repressed.
It's insane and bold to burden the chest
which holds my heart's abyss.
I could never ask more from a soul
which always asked forgiveness.
467 · Mar 2019
Last of my name
Dimitrios Sarris Mar 2019
Here i lie on mount of smoldering rock
here i wonder in poems of silverlight.
Of gods and titans i lilt
of elves and mountain folk i write
of nymphs and elven maidens
i play this lyre
of forests and deep blue seas i dream.
Last of my name
last of my kin
lost in my lay.
461 · Nov 2017
Afterimage
Dimitrios Sarris Nov 2017
Giving a chance
testing my luck
defying my dream's will
feeling like sculpting.
I think i am going to put
you in trouble for that
cup of coffee
my memories like
offerings to an altar
of old scars.
Forgive me
excuse me
for such a long talk but
i think the trembling in
my heart has stopped.
The tone in your voice was sad
our minds were gone in feelings
we could not name.
456 · Nov 2018
In great view
Dimitrios Sarris Nov 2018
Run the full gamut of emotions
feels like demon's motions.
Great drama
great trauma
happens everyday.
Why give into light out of great dramas?
Why make sense out of fake traumas?
Within ordinary people lie
demons lie
and love cries.
Love that is older from titans
and gods of old.
Love that is sang by angels
and ancient folk.
Love that gave power to
immortal and mortal alike.
451 · Nov 2017
Wind whipped flame
Dimitrios Sarris Nov 2017
I don't know why today of all days
i was thinking about you.
I don't know why today of all days...
I might have tried less of forgetting you today.
Even if it's been so long
i still miss you
i still love you.
By no means was this love
for the faint at heart
by no means was this life
for the weak and the lazy.
I'll think of you
when i start to lose faith.
I'll think of you
when the mist goes thick.
I'll think of you
when the lament of my lost hope
takes hold in this tilted heart.
I'll think of you
as i sing the light melodies of poems
that echo between the foaming waves.
I'll think of you
as i remember your green eyes reflecting
such starlight...
So be it.
451 · Jun 2017
Forgot
Dimitrios Sarris Jun 2017
How am i standing and not crumbling?
How am i breathing and not choking?
For every second thought
marching for the sun's light
for every second look
hunting for the moon's beauty
i almost forgot your face
so horrified i felt
I need a moment to straighten
my senses.
I have to let go
no apologies will be made
have to keep walking
but never forget.
Treasured moments so true
that i have nothing else to say.
442 · May 2017
Empathy?
Dimitrios Sarris May 2017
If much wisdom is much grief then
he who increases his knowledge
increases and his sorrow.
Can i feel it?
Devil curse me i do.
I thought i was beyond this but i am not.
I waited to long and sacrificed to much.
People might not change now.
It would take another thousand years
maybe more to realise that fear
inspires control, over them, over their hearts,
over their way of thinking.
I had hope but now, disappointment for
most do not even try and all they do is making
excuses, hiding behind this ridiculous term
of insecurity. My point of view, they are just
afraid being honest to themselves.
Even i am not crazy enough to believe that
distortion of reality.
434 · May 2019
Let..
Dimitrios Sarris May 2019
Let your heart unleashed
let your mind released
let your tears flow
let them wash away your feelings
of destruction.
Let your soul free once again and
welcome the cooling breeze
of sunset's late glimmer.
431 · Dec 2017
untitled
Dimitrios Sarris Dec 2017
The greatest gift of all is to bear the pain
of your loved ones wihtout breaking and
as frightening might be that pain will make
you feel stronger to stand for them and
selflessly grant them comfort.
430 · Jun 2018
Blusted
Dimitrios Sarris Jun 2018
Driven out from your dark corner
everything feels in a disorder
i'm guessing that your comfort zone
was just a grey zone
fulfilling nothing but pleasing
untitled, meaningless desires.
Life you say is grey too but at that assumption  
you forgot about black and white
you forgot the vigorous emotions
that made you feel alive.
But don't forget you are human not some narcissistic being
pretending drama, craving attention.
No matter who you are you do not know
what kind of man you've become
until the very end.
430 · May 2017
Dreaming
Dimitrios Sarris May 2017
We are born free some don't believe it
or even try to take it away.
Crystal waters
green forests
deep blue seas
a beautiful queen
sparkling eyes
red rose lips
skin soft like snow
love beyond measure.
Lay eyes on that and you'll know what freedom is.
That's worth giving a **** and i would risk
everything even for a glimpse of real freedom.
424 · Jul 2017
Dilemma vol.2
Dimitrios Sarris Jul 2017
Another morning just the usual, music and a cup of coffee.
It was cloudy, a couple arguing outside perhaps too much...
My own break up scene came up my mind, but there was no
yelling, no confusion, no hate.
I had to. For her own good, just so she can move on. Get
married have a family perhaps. The difference between our
age was no problem she said. But then again the things she would
miss, no i could not do that to her. I could not be that selfish even if
my heart breaks in two.
Goodbye my love, goodbye my queen...
Today i was informed that i got my certificate as a civil engineer.
A great sense of accomplishment in my heart, she learned about it
and she's really proud of me but i wish i could tell her, i wish i could she
her smile.
419 · Jan 2019
Zagreus
Dimitrios Sarris Jan 2019
Haunted by grief of loss
as a soul trapped
inside a broken mirror
that tried desperately to scream
and beg solely through the tears
that slid down a darken face
cold and very much alone.

Now tell me i am wrong
now listen to the steel sing
let courage and fury fill your heart.
Kicked to the floor
now rise anew.
Alas for victory is here
alas for the gods return.
Remember for the scars run deep
remember for the scars may never heal.
Now rise at the sound of the horn
and gods demand revenge.
Zagreus son of Hades and Persephone.
A small draft from the book i write.
415 · Jul 2016
A crown for a queen
Dimitrios Sarris Jul 2016
Named and chosen by king.
Shallow manners, gentlefolk and crown jwelles
nothing mean.
Skin pale like the moon, a mellow sight with
compassion for her people,
a flaming heart for her loving king.
Queen she shall be named.
Stature of a lady and the steeliness of
a lioness.
War and discored with tears shall flood
her eyes, but her crown crystal light.
410 · Aug 2016
My path not yours
Dimitrios Sarris Aug 2016
Sometimes we seem bad to those we love
but the truth is we act like this in order to protect
them, cause we are strong and we would sacrifice
so much maybe more and even more for them.
A man does what he can until his destiny
is revealed to him. Every person is responsible
for his own path but without condemning
someone else in it.
408 · Oct 2017
Defiance
Dimitrios Sarris Oct 2017
You raised the stone on your own.
You have looked what slithers beneath
and beneath that earth, beneath that stone
the next world teems and grows unchecked.
You were gifted with admirable talent
beyond this world
beyond
below
behind
before.
Your knowledge considerable but with the sin
of wrong thinking.
At a moment of purity and ease you started
listening wispers of a dream
that you are dust of an echo in fading mist.
404 · Sep 2017
Memory
Dimitrios Sarris Sep 2017
I carry your melodies
that fill the air
and shove the waves ashore.
I carry a heart in rusty chains
burning for redemption.
I inhale
I exhale
I let you light my waning soul
and cast away the longing
i tried to bury long ago.
Your face starts to fade in my thoughts
and fear blooms within me.
I could not ask for more
just a memory of you singing happily
just the look of your sparkly green eyes.
391 · Jan 2017
The reason
Dimitrios Sarris Jan 2017
It had nothing to do with her but it was something to be seen.
I could see it in her eyes, she had no idea, what could it be just fear.
Perhaps one or two shadows of suspicion, not sure.
All i could hear her saying " I wanted to run and hide in a place
where i could see my light again"
I am holding your hand we are reaching home, somewhere safe.
War is spreading in their hearts they can't just get enough.
It would be a blessing to stop and rest but this darkness spreads,
it spreads like a fire under a strong false wind.
390 · Mar 2019
Silence
Dimitrios Sarris Mar 2019
The room is dark
all so quiet
maybe too quiet.
From window's frame
i stare sky and stars.
All so quiet.
Not a single breath
not a single soul
could be heard.
The street is empty.
No wind blowing just the sight
of flickering lights from
the mountain's top far away.
I don't know why sometimes i like this silence
i don't know why sometimes i find peace in it.
385 · Jul 2018
In their memory
Dimitrios Sarris Jul 2018
Lost for nothing
Lost in fire
Lost in vain
A memory remains
feeding the ascending pain.
Only the quackery of the
passing time in plain.
In memory of the dead at the fire yesterday especially
for the children...A day that Greece mourns
376 · Sep 2021
An ending worth to save
Dimitrios Sarris Sep 2021
Overwhelmed by anger
sorrow and loneliness changed you
power corrupted you
your lust for redemption consumed you
surrounded by pain your heart abandoned you.
An angel within sang in vain and fell
for you did not listen.
Hear my confessions
witness my truths
your eyes avert in bliss.
Mistakes are yours to burn
but i won't return in ruins.
375 · Sep 2016
A long waltz
Dimitrios Sarris Sep 2016
I am lost alone, i've stood in the very edge,
i've looked into the abyss and if i'd taken
one more step i would have fallen.
No matter how far i go she is
always there, like a devious dance between
me and her, we won't go down.
Nothing else to settle all clear like a beautiful
light, the light of her eyes.
Green eyes that always looked my own
speaking of something that is lost
like dream i can not remember.
367 · Apr 2018
New beginnings
Dimitrios Sarris Apr 2018
We are voyagers set on a course with a destiny
to find this one person our love is mend for,
a unique purpose promised to this person alone.
But be warned when we seek the light darkness
gathers and the fight during this long journey is
not fought by force but with one step of
honesty at a time. I miss you...
366 · Apr 2022
Life
Dimitrios Sarris Apr 2022
A life of pain and dreams ahead
a life of love and thoughts to miss.
Feel and live but not regret
for time is what we all got.
Time and memories is what our souls yearn.
366 · May 2017
Keeping strong
Dimitrios Sarris May 2017
If you knew how much i've missed you.
Your absence is like rain and with a silent
fall a sea is formed, endlessly sinking inside.
In darkness i shall be light, in times of solitude
your memory shall keep me warm,
in thrives of despair i shall home my craft
write and express, in confusion i shall have
no illusion, in the midst of the drakest hour
i shall have no fear.
I shall define art and it shall define me.
366 · Apr 2017
Maintain
Dimitrios Sarris Apr 2017
Can't hold, can't sustain, can't maintain
the thought that lingers in my mind.
I yelled, i shout at myself, stop!
Stop thinking the notion of going back.
But i held her at my arms and so she held my face.
We stood there for a couple of minutes no words
just a calming silence, relief.
A sense of kindness was all i needed
my thought now homed and settled.
359 · Jul 2017
I see vol.5
Dimitrios Sarris Jul 2017
It saddens my heart to
see the pain and suffering
people inflict on each other.
It saddens me beacause
they don't want to stop.
It saddens me that people
crave the opposite of honesty.
It saddens my soul that poeple
critisize and feel happy in the
suffering of each other.
It saddens me that they would do
anything for attention in the
frame of social media.
It saddens me that they do the
opposite from what they must
and all they feel is anger
just blaming anything but
themeselves.
It saddens my heart that they do
not recognize the distortion within
and they won't ever truly awaken.
It saddens me bacause it feels like
i'll be fighting these people till the
end of my days.
It saddens...sigh
It saddens me because these words
would mean nothing to them.
359 · Jun 2018
To my demons
Dimitrios Sarris Jun 2018
Within and without
can you hear it now?
it's been with doupt
can you see it now?
A mortal sin gods will bear out
a soul akin angels won't look out.
I'll let you see what was cast aside
i'll let you feel powerless when waves collide
i'll let you feel mortal in high tide.
359 · Nov 2017
Ashes
Dimitrios Sarris Nov 2017
Blood boils and a thirst for revenge is overflowing.
No i need to make this right.
I need to make right the faults that opposed me.
I need to make this right for my heart has grown with pain.
At this pile of ashes a great fire used to burn
the fire that used to warm us both.
358 · Sep 2018
Bad dream vol.2
Dimitrios Sarris Sep 2018
In black and white it seemed to be.
Thick fear was all around
ruins started crumble
frozen cold upon the frailest veil
too many paths appeared to be
but only one with a wall i could break.
There was a shapeless figure waiting
in the shadow of an old tree.
It was a woman who called for help.
Weak and sad she seemed to be
covered with leaves and feathers
from her black twisted wings.
She touched my heart
remembrance at last
she was the outcome of my lost love.
356 · Apr 2018
Delivered
Dimitrios Sarris Apr 2018
Such an abrupt ending
a chance to leave some
ghosts behind.
Behold the king
of timorous
who hoarded corruption
within his precious walls
here is his peace
by steel's swift descent.
342 · Mar 2018
Distant dream
Dimitrios Sarris Mar 2018
Is it a fragile psychology
or an agile psychosis?
Tried to settle my emotions
tried to read though your intentions.
Our hovering hearts and
throbbing bodies
a tale our touch could only tell.
Last night was not as every night
it was like our first night.
Thoughts and memories kept me
wondering is it worth all this
suffering. I only dream another life
this one you taught me.
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