Always Spring

As the World Goes Away by Lights & Motion

The winter sun is coming in through the window, but if you forget about the cold then it doesn't feel like winter any more. Flowers are already in bloom and the days are getting longer. It's time to reinvent one's self, to breathe life into our heart and soul and bones. I always thought of myself as a summer child, but the older I get the more I realise that my favourite month is the month of May.

It’s always Spring
In my heart,
It’s been a while now.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

The shape of our mutual dream
Unfolds before us
And I cannot wait for it
To take us away.

Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.

By Alice Karayianni

Late Afternoon

What do you go home to? by Explosions in the Sky

It's late afternoon
And we're riding our bikes
In the neighbourhood I've come
To love so much.

How strange
The Spring twilight is;
A crimson horizon
Filled with hopes,
An infinite landscape.

And I think about how magical
Ordinary things can be,
How the best moments
Are the unanticipated ones.

By Alice Karayianni

2022

Photograph by Alice Karayianni

Each of us is given

only so many mornings -

to look around and love

Here's to always being present to the moment and being mindful enough to recognise how to make the most of it.

Happy 2022 to all! ❤

Our Kitchen

Reverie L.68 by Claude Debussy

We are dancing in our kitchen
Late at night.
It's the end of the summer,
And the windows are open.
A soft breeze is coming in
Carrying a faint familiar odor,
Jasmine.
You kiss me softly and
I can't help but laugh,
As I trip over my own feet.
Everything is wonderful.

By Alice Karayianni

My Ruby

Photograph by Alice Karayianni

I couldn't quite understand
What it felt like to grieve,
Until I lost you.

Now I know what it feels like
To have all this love
That you cannot give,
To have all this love

With no place to go.

Instead, it gathers up in
The corner of my eyes;
The lump in my throat;
The heaviness in my chest.

You are the Ruby of my heart
And nothing will ever change that.

Love you infinitely.

22/06/2021

By Alice Karayianni