ANTONIS FILIPPEOS

 

 

Depleted Light

 

Everything that torments me

spreads out like shadows all around me

twisting and turning in my mind.

Sometimes like distant noises

and sometimes like enchanting calls

reminding me not to forget

the depths in which I was lost,

when I wanted to hide from everything

that I was longing for

because I didn't have the courage to forget.

I kept on going like a wild 

white horse,

which is running away,

and keeps on running...

in virgin forests, secret,

where my white mane tore the air,

creating a song

so distant yet so familiar,

like the pieces that broke,

like the pieces of light

waiting for a fire,

a powerful flame, furiously fiery

to bring them back together again.

 

Sanctuary

 

There are secrets that no one knows,

dark oceans in the deepest depths of the mind

that you have not discovered so far.

It is the breaths that seek union with the divine,

two bodies,

one idea,

infinite light of love.

Sparkles of magic sensing the desire

to break silences,

to break chains,

to sail into the sacred sanctum of the soul

until the resonance of redemption is revealed,

with a clear destiny to listen to

small and great truths

in your deep, troubled waters

until they arise to the touch of the sun

parts of the sea

that flood the whole being.

If the eyes are born again,

if silences are broken,

if secrets are revealed,

and hurricanes are hushed,

then hearts will beat loudly

like thunder,

fears will be tamed

like pitch black

wild horses!

 

ANTONIS FILIPPEOS

 

ANTONIS FILIPPEOS was born in Athens in 1980. He had been to Italy for two years for studies in the university of Rome. Returning to Greece, he completed his studies in International and European Relations in Athens and he obtained his degree in Italian Literature at university of Athens in 2012. With his inexhaustible creativity, he managed to set in the field of poetry. His first book, “Animus Nudus”(Cactus publications), was well reviewed and he won a lot of international awards. Some of his poems were set to music and translated in English, Italian and Russian. Lots of his poems have been included in various poetic anthologies and famous magazines. His promising second brand-new book “Silentium” (Cactus publications) has been recently published.