Europe

was the rich

                  and beautiful

 daughter  

                 of  an old king.

.

She was a very sweet girl, but she escaped with a peasant from her castle.

Her brother hated him and he had prohibited her to see him.

When the moon rose to the sky, the girl saw that her lover had gone away.

She understood he was near the shore of a lake.

Suddenly, a transparent light rose from its water

and came near the shore.

Europe remained still, looking at that strange light,

All around, a light wind started to blow, moving her blonde hair.

One after the other, the flowers around them began to bloom,

letting  a pure white nectar go.

 Lifting in the air of the night, the nectar wrapped them,

Making them shine of an extraordinary luminosity.

Both of them raised in the air, covered with the hot nectar.

When the moon emerged behind the clouds

and from the sky a cold stardust came down,

the girl changed into a goddess.

Her long hair kept dancing with the wind.

The man, looking at the woman rising to the sky, seized her hand.

So, the lovers disappeared, holding hands,

in the light of the moon, when two shooting stars crossed the sky....

Veronica VB

Lady Europe

Lady Europe was the daughter of Venus and Poseidon.

She had been born during a trip in the Pacific Ocean exactly when the sun lit her mother's belly. A goddess of the ocean grew her up with some other Nymphs.

She was a beautiful creature who used to spend  the whole day singing among vegetables and flowers and dancing with all the animals.

One day Zeus came down from Olympus because the nymph was crying. She explained to him that she was sad because a group of sharks had eaten her little friends.

Not to see Europe cry, Zeus gave her as a present a new house in a new land where the sea  had very shining water and no sharks.

He called this land 'Europe'.

Martina B. VB