Europe Poem by Steve Trimmer

Europe of The Broad Face
Synonym as so;

Of Full Moon (esbat of blue or contrariwise)
Of Good For Willows (greatest grove)
Well watered (Queen Nymph nigh)
Of benighted realm
Queen Europe!
Queen Europe!

Title of our Demeter (at Lebadia Shrine)
Title of our Astarte (at Sidon Shrine)
At Crete (our isle now defiled)
Zeus hath violated thee;
Under his voracious desire……….we lament
Queen Europe!
Queen Europe!

Mote Her hand (slender, so of commanding strength)
Be the Five-Pointed Leaf (methinks it The Open Handed Emblem)
Of the plane tree;
Her five seasons (of autochthon lunations be it)
Her five senses (plus one of mantic divinity)
Her fifth month of Saille (we weep in the Spring breeze at Seed Moon) ….Salix, Salix
Queen Europe!
Queen Europe!

………………………………..............this requiem I bade


………Whence we cross such frosty mire
An iniquitous eventide at Tyre
Captives taken, at Europe’s Shrine
Levant Goddess, immured, by warring kind
Folly Taurus, new Cretan king
Such effrontery he didst bring…………………….


Where be my Queen Europe! .................Europe!