XANTHI HONDROU-HILL

 

XANTHI HONDROU-HILL 

 

To The Capitals Of Lock Down

 

Our days didn‘t brighten up

 

even now that spring is here.

Even if the roads are all open

 

there is nowhere to go.

 

Here in this lane

 

we will survive

 

until our values will shine

 

like equations

 

with mathematical precession.

 

Unexpected Collection

 

(Dedicated to my beautiful and talented daughter Anna)

 

 

I collected

 

sun, mountain and seas

 

from the universe

 

to make your dowry.

 

 

I went to talk to the nights

 

so that the stars will write your future bright.

 

I sat down to hear the sound of the flowers

 

the colours of the birds

 

so that your life will be full of beautiful shades

 

 

But when I heard

 

the unexpected sound of your microscopic heard

 

my life was filled with

 

music, colours and light.

 

 

Shopping List

 

 

When you come

 

bring me

 

salty almonds

 

green spicy jelly babies

 

mountain tea

 

a big blue pottery jug

 

and from the baker

 

bring me

 

the crumbs

 

of his optimism.

 

XANTHI HONDROU-HILL 

 

XANTHI HONDROU-HILL studied German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Journalism at the University of Hohenheim and Public Relations Management at Klett-WBS, in Stuttgart. She has worked as a multi-lingual teacher, journalist, translator for poetry and public relations manager. She has lived in Greece, Germany, Holland and Great Britain, and speaks several languages. Currently she is living in Naoussa, in North Greece. She has organized in the past years many poetry events, in cooperation with the local municipality and the archaeological secretary of the Prefecture of Imathias. In Germany she worked as Public Relations Manager for the Greek General Consulate in Stuttgart, designing, organizing and executing multi-level campaign to improve the Greek fame in Germany. She is writing poetry since high school. Her poems have been published in the University Newspaper of Stuttgart and in big newspapers like Stuttgarter Zeitung. Additionally, she participated in anthologies in cooperation with the Greek Society of Writers in Germany, "Gute Reise meine Augen" and the yearly anthology of the House of Writers in Stuttgart "Almanac". In Greece she runs the cultural Facebook page "ΚΙΝΗΣΗ για τα ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ και τις ΤΕΧΝΕΣ" dedicated to poetry and arts, organizes events and is helping organize events like "Poetry on Rails" and her poems are published in the anthology APIKO and in many digital social media pages. She is currently working as public relations consultant for a European Art Platform.