Giorgos Karabelas, Greece The Poems«Meeting»Love isYour pace in timeYour slow unwindingThe swift -in your silence- movementsThat resolveUntil your consipiring smileCan be heardA journey to the unknownAt the eleventh hourBefore thatthe silenceOn her o...

Savvas Lazaridis, Greece INERT SUBSTANCES FIELDS OF COTTON The PoemsINERT SUBSTANCES                    To motherIn the end she laughs endlessly. After all the pains of the last months she feels ...

Mania Meziti, GreeceThe PoemsThe nestAnd suddenly I felt them all I was looking the trajectory of the mostly young grovelers - my back was already hurtingbecause of previous jobs - I saw the inconsistencythe so-called revolutionary actof the fall of ...

Chloe Koutsoumpeli, Greece THE ONLY LAND THE DOLL HOUSE The PoemsTHE ONLY LANDΙ wanted to write you a letter, but I didn't know the hieroglyphics.I wanted to touch you, but sometimes you were a century late, sometimes I came a millennium earlier.When...

Jean Jacques Pierre-Paul, Haiti The PoemsWhy Nobody is Joane FlorvilNobody wants to be the victim of their own destinyNobody wants to bear the name of their own abyssNobody wantsto get up each daywith the world's scars on their foreheadThey killed yo...

Triantafyllos H. Kotopoulos, GreeceThe PoemsAmorous DebtKisses in the beginning were redeeming,the only solution to allow amorous complexes into maniacal in-scribingsBut, you understand, they kept forcing the situationI convulsed, with a cry proper, ...

 Andrés Álvarez Arboleda, Colombia LIKE A WARY BIRD WAR The PoemsTHAT SMELL OF DEAD TREESThat smell of dead trees arrived with midnight: it was you, the announcement of your lingering on this bank of the river. It was you and news of war navigat...

 Mari Kashiwagi, Japan The PoemsButterfly/Rainbow  Rainbow shimmers a memory of Butterflyhaving been here * On Butterfly's shorelineRainbow slumbers*What Rainbowcould not articulatea butterfly*Sky's reincarnation as a rainbowButterfly*Butte...

Zacharias Katsakos, Greece Frozen planet The «doll» The PoemsFrozen planetSometimes a woman comes to my dreamswithout head, torso and fingers.A voice that sounds muffledbehind a broken mirrorchewing darkness and soil.And then the forest woman sp...

Eleni Artemiou-Fotiadou, Cyprus TASTERS OF DAYS THE SISYPHUS OF ALBER KAMI The PoemsTASTERS OF DAYSIn the eveningsfollowing the advice of expertswe spend quality time with ourself He sits in an armchair across the room We with a glass of wine drink t...

Dimitris Athanaselos, Greece Anterooms of freedom Without time places The PoemsAnterooms of freedomI was lost in coarse covers, I did not assess correctly the expansion - exploration - of the moment.I was absorbed in strange symmetries of bodies and ...

Electra Lazar, Greece THE CANARY IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER BIRDS. YOU CAN FIND IT IN ITS CAGE AND KILL IT The PoemsTHE CANARY IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER BIRDS. YOU CAN FIND IT IN ITS CAGE AND KILL ITGood nightNo one will open for meThanks I will remember this...

 Andonis Fostieris, GreeceThe PoemsTHE CELLOutside the day's colours are lappingThoughts and feelings engrave the gap.And you, shut locked internedIn these four verses.(translated by Yannis Goumas)*ΤΟ ΚΕΛΙΈξω παφλάζουνε τα χρώματα της μέραςΣκέψε...

 Anna Afentoulidou, Greece Hide and seek Double play The PoemsHide and seekWhile days pass by the edge of the skyunder the ever-turning sun and the wind howling at the skylightMy throat out of breathI send messages and I hurryleaning against the...

 Panayiotis Nikolaides, Cyprus HOW CAN YOU LOVE A POEM The PoemsHOW CAN YOU LOVE A POEM How can you love a poemwhen the deepest meaningof poetryis neither usefulnor fancyand among those writtenno poem was ever really necessaryfor survival.How ca...

 Vitomirka Trebovac, SerbiaThe Poemsoppositesin front of the'olga petrov'retirement homea man kisseda woman's handshe raised her headand he blushedand what happened afterI don't knowbecause the wheels of my bicycleare bigand I'malready in anothe...

 Luis García Montero, Spain The PoemsThe loveWords are shipsand so are lost, from one mouth to another,as if from one mist to another.They carry their cargo in discussionswithout finding a dock,the night when they're weighed down like an anchor....

Ana Victoria Padilla Onatra, Colombia Furniture in a box The PoemsFurniture in a boxThere is something hidden in the act of collecting boxesin the act of sorting them out to contain the worldor creating a little poetic scenerywhere you can remai...

 Elizabeth Grech, Malta The sun going down in the sea The PoemsThe sun going down in the seaHelp me go to sleep, mum,you said.The sun's going down in the seabut I can't sleep.My boy,count the stickson the path to school,the pebbles, the shells t...

Eleni Alexiou, Greece AFTER THE RAIN ESTRUS The PoemsINDOOR VERBS We were startled by how strong old things areevery fault became a jewelWe put on shabby clothes and found something newto dedicate ourselves to. We listened to the rhythmic conversatio...