Penelope Zardoukα, GreeceThe PoemsPenelope's OdysseyIn my own OdysseyPenelope goes down to Hadesevery dayHidden travel undergroundshe comes down with an improvised flashlightshe stumbles constantlythe downhill is endlessshe hears the dead screamingti...

Fani Athanasiadou, Greece A lesson in confinement Between us the touch The PoemsA lesson in confinement A lesson in confinement crossword puzzle for strong solvers read the small advertisements published in the local newspaper until it was final...

Christos Dikbasanis, Greece WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT? OFFER AND SACRIFICE  The PoemsWHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?I gave you my dreams, my dead sponds in spaceWhat else do you want?In the frozen Universe I was left alone to look you in the eyesNo sadness l...

Marta López Vilar, Spain THE TREE The PoemsTHE TREEI look at the tree bathed in sunlight. I look at its branches, its leaves, I observe how its roots emerge from the dirt. The sun rises and nothing seems to end ever. All things return to their beginn...

Anna Griva, GreeceThe PoemsArtemisia Gentileschi in her atelier The walls tables and floors filled with Holofernes' head sometimes cradled by Judith and sometimes in the arms of a maidservant She looks at the heads and feels deep inside the weight of...

Konstantinos Bouras, GreeceThe PoemsI am a tiger in a cage with Polar bearsI am the dead man who was dragged upFrom the electric railway. I committed suicide in a state of Mental rapture without thinking of leaving a Note behind. No, it wasn't despai...

Cleopatra Lymberi, GreeceThe PoemsTHE BOWMEN OF SHUWhat flower has come into blossom?(Song of the Bowmen of Shu)Ezra PoundThe bowmen of Shu still live inside the poemthe bowmen of Shu still exist – I speak, thereforeI am (I 've always been chatt...

Vladimir Martinovski, Republic of North Macedonia The PoemsFAMILY PORTRAIT Inspired by a black and white photographfrom the Museum ofPhotography in ParisThe Fatheris missingHe probably neverliked to have his picture taken(or maybe he's hidingbeh...

 Nikos Fotopoulos, Greece The wave of a night set adrift The Poems The wave of a night set adrift A rowdy windcarries awaymy darksome landnostos -onerously longing to return home-drawing me down into the deepand the black seais nourishing within...

Kostas Gouliamos, CyprusThe PoemsThere are surprises in the air I am considering a more spacious death Like the one your ink is shaping Because the time when planes hung from my neck has passed And I couldn't tell what was hiding behind the machine P...

Helene Tzatzimaki, Greece If I shot the moon  The PoemsThe hedgehog's dilemma The hedgehog's dilemma (or porcupine dilemma)Refers to the inevitable frictionCaused by human contact.We can't love each other without pricking each other And hur...

Christos Armando Gezos, GreeceThe PoemsTHE ONLY WAYI loved you the way they kill themselves those blue birds you so craved to touch.I picked them all one by oneto make the sky above your bedthe sea on the floorto dive in and watch you sleep. And if t...

Vasilis Pandis, GreeceThe PoemsCerement SaturdaySecret labourSaturdaya joltinside your throatthe way of such a lightfalling on the cerementthe way of so much whitenesson the woodThe nightthe bitterest pulleyinventsthe worldGuard your soiloh soulfor f...

Tonia Tzirita Zacharatou, Greece The PoemsLakis the cosmonautWith a scarpel in each handthey cut a star off the sky.Fortunately, that night you were cryingand you didn't see anythingLakis my doga teeny tiny dog a cosmodogthe first who touched the sky...

Chryssa Vlachou, Greece The Red Peacocks The PoemsThe Red PeacocksI came down the stairs of the house. Red peacocks fluttered in my amputated arms. The young ladies of Avignon, beaks of surviving birds, pecked at the April plaster. A strange gum-tree...

Rocío Acebal Doval, SpainThe PoemsIT' IS NOT YOUIt's not habit – that sly milestoneof death-. Neither is itgoing to weddings alone or escapingsome foreignbedroom on Sundays; even less so is it makingdinner for two and dining alone.It's not eventhe lo...

Leopoldo Castilla, ArgentinaThe PoemsNEVERto Daniel MoyanoIt is the same flythat buzzesthe same summer,the same flickering candle in the bedroomsand in the gallows the thunder;the same child, that man with his wet chestunder the rattled skies.There i...

Andrés Sánchez Robayna, SpainThe PoemsXΙΙΙ  (Hydra.)PASSING once more are the white cloudsin a time when there's no time. This is one hourof time and it's your body and it's the watersglistening under the sun of memory.(translate: Manos Apostoli...

Michalis Papadopoulos, CyprusThe PoemsThe disagreement For Cavafy, for Seferiswe are more or less in agreement   even withwhat they said that you didn't saywith words you put into their mouth    that they didn't speak thoughyou ha...

Ioanna Lioutsia, Greece The PoemsWhen I utter "freedom"When I utter the word "freedom"two images always come to mind:sixth grade boyswith bicycles in packsAugustaround the city's neighborhoods anda chubby Chinese teenagersecond generation immigrantwi...