ZANNETA KALYVA PAPAIOANNOU

ZANNETA KALYVA PAPAIOANNOU

THE SPRING

The coming of Spring

flowers will bring

and Angel Gabriel will offer

to the Virgin Mary the lily.

All yards are

full of roses and lilacs,

anemones and hyacinths,

whispering love songs.

“You love me”,

“you don’t love me”,

you play with daisies,

walking on squares

and asking for your mate.

Cyclamens and jasmines

in little vases,

beautiful and fresh

they always look forward to you.

NOSTALGIA

On bed of pain,

alone, a night,

I wish I had

your touch.

I feel nostalgia,

I’m scared of the lust

and with a big pain

I cry your name.

MEMORIES

America’s places I missed

a midday,

and with pain in my heart

I remembered… all the past.

The beautiful years

we passed together,

always in laughter,

love and affection.

LIFE IS SO BEAUTIFUL

Life is so beautiful,

it’s made for love,

but we never know

what it will happen to us.

So, take delight in

all this beauty

and never think

about fame and wealth.

ZANNETA KALYVA – PAPAIOANNOU

GREECE

ZANNETA KALYVA-PAPAIOANNOU: She was born in Larissa. She comes from Vachlia, a small Arcadian village. She is poetess and author. Her work has been published in national and international  newspapers and magazines. Her poems there are in Anthologies and have been translated in English, Chinese, Albanian, Italian, Spanish and Korean. Her writing has won international and national prizes. She is a member of the WAAC/WCP (which awarded her the title Doctor of Literature), of the IWA, of the “Union of Greek Writers”, of the “WPS”, of the Accademia Ferdinandea (Italy), of the Literary Club “Xasteron”, of the Literary Club of Helioupolis, of the International Society of Greek Writers  & Artists, of the «Poetas del Mundo» («Poets of the World») and many social Associations of Greece. She referred in the American “Who’s Who” and in “I. B. of Cambridge” (U.K.). She has published the books: “MEMORIES”, narrative stories from her childhood, Athens 2001. “A LIFE’S NOTES”, poems (Greek-English), Athens 2002. “LIFE’S ESSENCE”, poems and short stories, Athens 2003 and  “WITH MY HEART’S WINGS”, a collection of poems (Greek, Chinese, Italian, English and French), Athens 2005& 2007.