MARIA MISTRIOTI

 

 

Wind and Navigator

 

I have not yet abandoned the tales

I try to write you a few words

In the way the effort is made to stitch

in the bleeding flesh

So I will bring the first word close to the last one

And I will send you this letter

As a bitter kiss between our distances

                 ***    

I am writing to you with rather simple words

And I would like to talk you

about those who travel through puzzles

and through smokes of very bitter seas

Who respond in the nights to the crying of mermaid

and search for the other side of things

***

The sea is not always calm

The ship is not always strong

Deep wound

What we love

***

I speak with you

and like those peasant women

when they lament for the separation

They leave on the wet ground

a branch of rosemary

-as a talisman for the journey-

And a ripe pomegranate

Which encloses their red tears

***

Some day

There will talk about us

The cyclamens the ones picked up

To decorate my black dress

The springs that you painted

in their mirrors our internal pictures

Some day

There will talk about us

all those which makes the pain shine

like the trees shine

while they bleed from the weight of snow

***

 

In The Veins Of Time     

          

In the pages of history I spell your will

Your though and your passion

I seek the levers and the causality

The light sleeps deeply in the hands of the night

                  ***

 To my Mother

                         Who lives in my veins

 

I asked you if you are tired

The flame of your eyes

Answered to me No

Now, I look at something which is simply a photograph

I try to unfold the wrinkles of your forehead

To read and those letters

That bitterness carves at the edges of your lips

Strong and proud in the thick fog

You buried your blood

In a distant mountain

Of Arcadia

Helen

 

MARIA MISTRIOTI

MARIA MISTRIOTI was born in the Greek Arcadia.  She lives in the City of Chalkida in Evvoia, Greece. She studied at the faculty of Social Workers and at a Journalist workshop. The course of her inspirations is mainly the Homeric Odyssey. Maria Mistrioti has published many Poetry collections and some literary studies. She is included in Greek and foreign anthologies. Her poems have been translated into English, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Arabic, Korean, Spanish, Ukrainian, Mandarin. She has participated in many International Poetry Festivals and she was honored with special Greek and International literary Prizes, like the Special diploma and the Medal ‘’Nikolaos Kriezotis’’ by the Prefecture of Evvoia and the Municipality of Chalkida for her Cultural contribution to Greece. In 2004, during the Olympic Games in Athens, she was awarded the State Prize –Medal and a Special diploma by the Polish Ministry of Culture, at the request of the Polish Ambassador in Greece at that time Mr.Grzegorz Diemidowicz. The Prize was awarded by Aleksander Kwasniewski who was the President of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to International Literature. In 2019 She was awarded the ‘’HOMER –THE EUROPEAN MEDAL OF POETRY AND ART’’ and the ‘’IANICIUS –INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, as well as the International Prize ‘’Nikos Chadzinikolau’’ in Polish. She also was awarded the ‘’BOGDANI’’ International Prize- 2023. Furthermore in 2023 she was awarded the ‘’FENIKS’’ International Prize, as well as the ‘’ MEDAILLE MIHAI EMINESCU’’ and the ‘’Diplome Ambassadeur Cultural’’  By the  Academie Internationale ‘’Mihai Eminescu’’ .In 2023 she was awarder ‘’ACCADEMICO AD HONOREM  E MEBRO TITOLARE ’’ by the ‘’ ACCADEMIA INTERNAZIONALE  LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR’’. Maria Mistrioti is a full member of the Greek Literary Society and a member of the new members judging committee. She also is an Organizer of International Poetry Festivals in Greece. In 2023, She was awarder with the special Prize ‘’ Poet of the Year 2023’’ from the Suwon KS International Poetry Festival in Seoul. She also was honored by the International ‘’GOLDEN BRIDGE AWARD’’. In 2024, Maria Mistrioti was honored with the ‘’ LE PRIX De l’ Academie Internationale ‘’Mihai Eminescu ‘’ 2024 Pour la Promotion des grands Valeurs Culturelles Mondiales ‘’ as well as with the Special Diploma of ‘’ Ambassadeur Culturel l’Academie Internationale ‘’ Mihai Eminescu ‘’. The Prizes Awarded by University Professor and President of International Academy ‘’Mihai Eminescu’’ Dr. Ion Deaconescu –during the VIII International Poetry Festival in Romania, Craiova. In 2025, Maria Mistrioti was declared a member –ACCADEMICO AD HONOREM by the ACCADEMIA DELLE ARTI E DELLE SCIENZE FILOSOFICHE (In Bari of Italy).