Giannis Stoupas, Greece The dead The Poemsthe dead One day you leave for the storeforgetting your keys back homebut such is life, you take offyou shop and then return.you knock. you hear a weeping from within, lament. your ringing stays unheard.you s...

Ifigenia Doumi, Greece The curtains Caravan The PoemsThe curtainsThe balcony awnings are permanently down.The curtains are drawn closed. Once a month she replaces them.Washes and stores them awayand gets new ones to protect the family warmth,to keep ...

Filia Kanellopoulou, Greece Often, you sound Underneath the City The PoemsOften, you soundLike tombs they fall upon us,Our brothers, our cousins, our father and our mother.News headlines, like dirt they fall upon usJournalists, they burry us deeper a...

Sapfo Soutsou, Greece IN ITS LIQUID ENVIRONMENT The PoemsIN ITS LIQUID ENVIRONMENTThe jellyfishWas reflected in the glass's white bedDancing beautifully within its liquid environmentDuring the conference commotionno one listened to anyoneThe waves wa...

Sotirios Pastakas, Greece Σ Υ Σ Σ Ι Τ Ι Ο / FOOD LINE Σ Υ Σ Σ Ι Τ Ι Ο / FOOD LINE The PoemsΣ Υ Σ Σ Ι Τ Ι Ο / FOOD LINEYou would certainly have seenthe snuff from my cigarettebehind lowered awningsamong lovely ornamental plantsglowing at four in the m...

Miguel Veyrat, Spain The PoemsORPHIC HYMNS TO THE PRONOUNYou expert in the trajectory of star and sphereyou grab the rains of winds,enclosing the air and inside the running fountain you makethe firelight shine brilliant.You who treads, plowing the ea...

Liana Sakelliou, GreeceThe PoemsThe Experience of LoveHe drinks her inand feelsthe buzzing in her veinswhile muzzles search for the taste of the wild the shiver—he drinks herand she feelsa fountain welling upsnow meltscompressed metals flowthen a sha...

George Veis, GreeceThe PoemsTime's (Simple) Reversal«Through the orange tree's leavesthe day passes, cleaning its wingssilver words suspended: midday.With your right hand you indicate the sea,an absence of matter, tomorrow you 'll call itdeparture. I...

Dimos Chloptsioudis, GreeceThe PoemsManifestoΙIn front of your principles I will sacrifice my last verse. I will tame the insignificantexcitement of creation, shouting when you ask me to be silent, you foolishpoachers of delusionyou think you have go...

Η κριτική επιτροπή των βραβείων "Jean Moréas 2021" ανακοίνωσε σήμερα τις βραχείες λίστες καλύτερης ποιητικής συλλογής και πρωτοεμφανιζόμενου ποιητή / πρωτοεμφανιζόμενης ποιήτριας για το 2020.Την κριτική επιτροπή συγκροτούν:-Τριαντάφυλλος Η. Κωτό...

George Blanas, GreeceThe PoemsLISTEN: YOU MIGHT ENDURE TO THE ENDSwift is the Soulswift and soft.Remember it.If you are alive it is because it can runfaster than Lifeand pass through the holes of Deathunscathed.Life follows you, slow and stiff:pantin...

Giorgos Christodoulides, CyprusThe PoemsRoaming the worldI met the man who remembered everything because he lived in a country without erasers and he was miserable. I met the man who couldn't recall his own name because where he lived Alzheimer's gre...

Antonini Smyrilli, Cyprus Me and my Cat Clinical Case The PoemsMe and my Cat Today we have the bluesand no makeup onMe and my cathave this queer relationA perverse communication We refuse to compromiseto normalize We carry our griefand like magnetsth...

Aretaios Bezanis, Greece Daddy The PoemsSummer never endsSummer is overBut sweat is dripping from the hairsOf my faceIt is not from the heatWatermelon peels on the floorRotten peachesBlackAnd green figsNext to them a heartWarmTo remind you that summe...

Marios Chatziprokopiou, Greece I HAD YET TO MEET HELIOGAVALUS Rhythm of the world, Study II The PoemsI HAD YET TO MEET HELIOGAVALUSThe Doctor said:"Maybe there'll be no need foran Operation.Maybe with some toning exercisesat the gymthey'll be fine."A...

Yannis Stefanakis, Greece The PoemsBOOKS, AS PARCELAs if they were spikesSpikes he took into his arms the parcel of the booksdusty by timedefeated by yesterdayThe signature of the poetdedicated to the poetwith love-heaven, first firs page ∙no problem...

Vangelis Tasiopoulos, GreeceThe PoemsDELIBERATE SEEKINGHunched day and night over exercises and calculations.Studying the mirror's reflectionand nodding at the seabirds.Kept the larks as collateral in the foreign earthso that they salvage the other s...

Aurora Luque, Spain Enter your text here ... The PoemsI Talk to Sappho Come, help up, Sappho,can you bring me some wings; Two pairs:some for my back (Are they nailed on? Will they hurt me?)and others lighter like a bee'sfor every word.Bring some of y...

Demetra Christodoulou, GreeceThe PoemsBANQUETSTerrified the night knocked on my doorAs if hunted by thieves.I had no reason to deny refugeTo a defenseless creature.She entered. The dawn cracked violently outsideIn a white, operating-room light.Thus I...

Alekos Florakis, GreeceThe PoemsCONFINEDHis cell has every comfort,wine-cellar, light fixtures, air conditioning,anatomic mattress,one thing it doesn't have: openings;windows and doors are missing entirely,no communication with the outside world,othe...