Milena Merlak Detela, a poetess who died in Vienna in 2006, managed to create verses of intensive narrative power. The author who was born on 9 November 1935 in Ljubljana wrote her poetry in Slovenian and German languages. She mastered an incredible repertoire of various hues of poetic expressions. Her poetry harbours images of oppressive austerity and images of surreal logic of dreams (such as the poem Underground Dungeon). In some of her lyrics the author indicates to negative political and environmental reality. This goes mostly about difficult, sombre poems. They reflect the trauma over her father’s tragic death, her mother’s suffering over the loss of her murdered sons and the events occurring during and after the World War Two. The nature and the inner spiritual images, the myth and the history melt into a new world. The poetess creates persuasive verses whether she draws her work from the history (Carnuntum or The death of the Emperor Abroad; Alchemists in the Golden City) or whether she is extensively drawn by the world of visual arts (Otto Dix = Danse macabre / The Countess; Paul Klee = Bastard) or the heritage of ancient myths.