Jan Škrob, Czech RepublicThe Poemsfour riversa man with scars on his chest takesa smouldering branch of elder in his handthe mountains part and their coldnessruns down my bodythere're four rivers meeting here threelive ones and a dead one the laptopi...
Yiannis Doukas, GreeceThe PoemsMY ATLANTIC STATΕ I said to him, Sea-Parrot,navigator, up to the arctic you were going, poor you, transoceanic though you were,your only egg is what you claimed. The rock, a wounded curtain – and would...
Nadya Radulova, BulgariaThe PoemsThe Open WindowWhen soft morning light enters the roomand turns into a cat, the cat into a rose,the rose into a small, barely noticeablewound above the ankle, whenno one notices the wound and it closes up unnoticed,wh...
Spyros L. Vrettos, GreeceThe PoemsTHE PROPER MOVEThey were so much the same that as soon as she made a movein her home, he, who was elsewhere, guessed what the movewas and saw her doing it as if she were there in front of him.Or as soon as she starte...
Anna Afentoulidou, GreeceThe PoemsCollectorBurnt butterfly wingsbeside the lineleft by a squished firefly.Tales I forgepinning broken earringson the eyes of plain dolls.I shall be smoking at nightstaring at their remains,scattered upon the wall.*Συλλ...
Andrej Al-Asadi, North MacedoniaThe PoemsBlack mirrors above DikankaHope shot In a thicket of times.A golden rug spread Over never-ending fieldsUkraine! U-u-u!Youuu! Cain's crow! You're not a turdTo be stuck on the bear's bootMaking it snort more swe...
Alexandra Bakonika, GreeceThe PoemsBacchanal Revelry The excursion coach made a stop in the idyllic town.The CD player continued playing music full blastas the passengers were getting off.Earlier on, en route, a lively merriment broke outwith songs, ...
Roman Kissiov, BulgariaThe PoemsMYSTERYThis spring, the birds did not come back from the south.The trees did not bloom.There are only vultures perched on branches.Vultures have perched – on house balconies,on boulevards, at cafes,on benches, on cars,...
Chloe Koutsoumpeli, Greece The PoemsSOME ADVICES FOR A MORE CAREFREE LIFEDon't be afraid to let things fall down. A feather does not weight as much as five chickens.Don't pluck each day from its morning.Cultivate cabbages,fluffy smiles-grim...
Timur Bék, HungaryPoemsLabyrinth #2My thread is tightened, its two ends stuckedinside my infinite dungeon's bloody corridors.I have been living the years inside these walls,my thought-ships did not stray further.My loneliness brought horns upon my he...
Popi Aroniada, GreecePOEMSV …I flow following the rhythm of limpid waterswearing the cassock of a nunI sip voluptuouslythe end of the warp I sink to drownin the inkof a passionate night I throw the dice for a warm game punting for sixto gain the flow...
Konstantinos Ch. Loukopoulos, GreeceThe PoemsDINANT/ NADINESomeday arrives this season with the red clouds,that out of habit, we used to call"The season of decommissioned trains",when the river recedes and a low tide appears(similar to that found in ...
Petra Kolmančič, SloveniaThe PoemsHOW TO STAY FAITHFUL Believe me, I am a faithful woman. Faithful to my hairdresser, even though on days when she finds out her husband will return homelate from work she sticks the comb into my scalpas if it wer...
Josef Hrdlička, Czech RepublicThe PoemsHEADandHANDSson solemnly draws a human one finger after another – is thata star in its hand? – yeah,and here's a cave, he addsas the little stick slides in deeperyour best poem yetwith a star for a handI enter a...
Theofanis Papageorgiou, GreeceThe PoemsGround zeroThe man walnutwas inhabiting in his shelluntil the white and the yolkdipped into a piece of a walnut pie then he met suddenly his last layerthe cherry pinned making the sweet desperatethe subject dism...
Lena Kallergi, GreeceThe PoemsIdentitiesIn northern countries with round hillsand mist rising from the lakesI was Greek.In faraway continentswith canyons and red desertsI was European.In the dark alleys of big citieswith frightened footsteps and hurr...
Kyriaki-Koula Adaloglou, Greece Messages to Odysseus As if it were summer The PoemsMessages to OdysseusFirst Draft Dear Odysseus The suitors have all leftsome you sorted (cleaned) out, some ran awayNo one left, not one to flatter my vanit...
Eleni Sigalou, GreeceThe PoemsGENEALOGICAL TREEThe house grew on the rock.Aged it was bent to the boneone night when it blewfrom his father's generation.For years the floor was solidbut now invisibly expandsas the wood is swollen with oblivion.In the...
Gjoko Zdraveski, North MacedoniaThe Poemsthe body remembers everythingone should sit still for days.be quiet with his eyes closed. butbe awake and observe.for days on end one should, bit by bit,patiently sharpen up the mind.not let even a scratch und...
Angeliki Sidira Papakosta, GreeceThe PoemsMOTHER OF ORGAN DONORYour eyes resuscirtated in a stranger face Look around surprised without memory And indifferently pass over me As if they never loved me. Uneven your heartbeats In the breast of some unkn...
