Spyros Kitsinelis

A Greek poet, living in Netherlands.

 

 

  spiros.kitsinelis@philips.com

Biography

He was born in Mesologi on the 29th of may 1976.He was raised in Nea Smyrni and attended the 4th junior and senior high school there. At the age of 19 he left for England. He studied chemistry at the university of Sheffield and got his doctorate in spectroscopy from the same university. After 8 years of living in England he move to Japan for a postdoctoral study at Ehime University of the city of Matsuyama. One year and a half later and upon completion of his postdoctoral research he was employed by Philips Lighting and has been living and working in Eindhoven, The Netherlands to the present day.

 

Mermaid Cry

By     Spyros Kitsinelis    

 

I hear the voices of mermaids at the sea

crying for the loss of love and life,

dreaming of a land where they'll be free.

 

Their only partner is the wreckage

of the sailors' lust and fears,

forever locked in the horizon's touch.

 

With dimming lights ornamenting the passing hope

and forming eyes on dormant rocks,

when night has fallen and work can stop.

 

This darkness merges in an eternal play

the starless heavens with Neptune's world,

while demons surface until the light of day.

 

This cry I am hearing comes from within

for there's no creature that could exist,

without reflecting man's soul or sin.