19318 - The eagle of Byzantium

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou

The eagle of Byzantium
at the beginning
was single–headed
slowly
the biceps
appeared
but they continued
using
both symbols
without preference
until the era
of Alexios Komnenos
the founder
in substance
of dynasty
who chose
the biceps
as symbol
in order to represent
and for the next
of our centuries
the diachronic
Byzantium.