Our heart’s visitors
A strange talk
With a stony garment
Threateningly hovers
In our every step
Cold drops of courtesy
Burn our breath
Did hope cease
To visit our heart?
The snow today
Isn’t white
It is colorless
Like the iris of our eyes
Like good morning
Which doesn’t come out of our lips
Did love cease
To visit our heart?
A torn poster
In the whirl of the wind
Our every word
Blue pebbles
Sunk in the blue of the sea
Our dreams
Did poetry cease
To visit our heart?
Moving
We ’re naked now
We donned the colors
Undressed words and voices
We ’re blind now
We drank the light
Swam in death
With alcohol and tobacco
In our luggage
We testified falsely
Forgetting who we are
We built our life
On a bird
And we flew again
Simply we moved
In a flash
You violated the borders
Which buried their
Know thyself
You destroyed prisons
Behind curtains
Turned ablaze by
The spark of your anger
Without cries
Without whispers
In a flash
That simple it was
You gave birth to light
When you embraced
What isn’t told
(Although written)
In darkness.
To the dead poet of obscurity
(In honor of the dead unpublished poet)
Well done!
You have won!
You should not feel sorry
Your unpublished poems
-Always remember-
Have not been buried
Haven’t bent
Under the strength of time
Like gold
Inside the soil
They remain
They never melt
They may be late
But they will be given
To their people
Someday
To offer their sweet
Eternal essence
The end
The savour of fruits
Still remains
In my mouth
But the bitterness of words
Demolishes the clouds
And wrings the snow
Counting the pebbles
But you never told me
Why you deceived me
Why with pain
And injustice did you desire
To say that the end
Always in tears
Is cast to flames
Dimitris P. Kraniotis:
Dimitris P. Kraniotis was born in 1966 in Larissa Prefecture in Greece and grew up in Stomio (Larissa). He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and obtained a Master of Science (MSc) in Medicine at the University of Thessaly. He lives in Larissa (Greece) and works as a medical doctor (internal medicine specialist physician). He is the author of 11 poetry books in Greece and abroad and the Editor-in-chief of an international poetry anthology. He has won many international awards for his poetry which has been translated into 37 languages and published in many countries around the World. He participated in many International Poetry Festivals. He is Doctor of Literature, Academician, President of the 22nd World Congress of Poets (Greece 2011), President of the World Poets Society (WPS), Director of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival (Larissa, Greece), Chairman of the Writers for Peace Committee of PEN Greece and member of the World Poetry Movement (WPM) & Poets of the Planet (POP).. His official website: https://www.dimitriskraniotis.com/