XANTHI HONDROU-HILL

 

Stories Of The Snow

 

the snow writes

even in the loneliest streets

beautiful stories

 

erases all speckles

so everything can shine

under the starlight

 

creates a new canvas

blank - to write love

in an innocent way

 

snow angels and snow men

all equally fallen flakes

all beautifully united

 

Window To The Fifth Season

 

Do you know the hair that wrote it’s story in the wind?

 

They don’t want you to know

Their names are hidden,

Their fame betrayed…

the women who write with their hair the fifth season.

 

They dance out of the rhythm

They don’t smile at all, you say,

talk back,

let their hair down

let it go with the wind…

 

The fifth season always

starts with the first drop of blood,

with the first lock which can’t be tamed

with the first different look in her eyes.

 

Open the window to the fifth season,

it is the window to freedom

But the way which leads to equality

has just begun.

 

Word Games

 

It’s a just a game

just add your word

whatever comes to mind

quick, without any thought

and them add the words together…

who knows the results?

 

Sometimes it’s just a word game

sometimes words twist and turn

inside the mind,

outside the lipps

and wars start…

 

No, it’s not just a game

carry your words carefully

in your arms in your breath

they are tearing castles down

removing kings and queens

in a flash of a second

just one word

and the weapons talk.

 

We carry the words

of the illiterate

and the unjust

we carry the ones who fell

for a lock of untamed hair

 

we carry in words the weight of world

 

XANTHI HONDROU-HILL

 

XANTHI HONDROU-HILL: Xanthi Hondrou-Hill has studied German and English Literature, Linguistics, Journalism and Public Relations Management in Germany. She has worked as Public Relations Manager at the Greek Consulate in Stuttgart, as teacher for German, Greek and English and is translating poetry from and to all three languages. She is an award-winning Greek poetess who gained international recognition. She is writing poetry since high school and her poems have been published in many international prestigious media and anthologies around the world. She has won in 2022 the first prize at the Gandhian Global Harmony Association and many awards in China, Ukraine, Philippines and Equator. She has been nominated as one of the 30 Stars worldwide in India. She is cultural Ambassador for OXYGEN PEN Sri Lanka, NAMASTE magazine in India and editor for poetry columns at www.faretra.info in Greece and HUMANITY in Russia, as well as co-editor for the international poetry magazine in China. Selections of her poetry have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Slavic as well as in two Languages of India: Hindi and Bengali.