ΧRYSOULA FOUFA

 

Lonely Days

 

Exhausted,

leaning on the window sledge

he peered into the heavy mist.

A cloud of solitude

covered the half empty room.

He closed his eyes

and dreamt of past times

when his friends gathered

in his remote resort.

The sound of the waves

that broke on the seafront

had embraced him in a friendly way.

It gradually became his constant friend. 

He smiled bitterly.

It was not his fault.

-True friends never abandon you

he murmured,

and tried to discern the flower bed

in his misty garden.

 

Friendship

 

The rose approached the violet

that sunny summer morning

with its rare scent,

so rare as their friendship.

The violet smiled happily

showing off its wild colourful leaves.

They had been friends by chance-

still for a life.

 

ΧRYSOULA FOUFA

 

ΧRYSOULA FOUFA: She was born in 1971 in Farsala, Greece. She graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with honors in 1993 and then worked as a tutoring school owner for 6 years. After that, she successfully passed the ASEP exams and was appointed to the high school in Astakos Messolongi. She has been teaching   English in the 1st General Lyceum of Farsala since 2000. She attended various seminars on her subject as well as on psychology and environmental protection issues. She loves literature, poetry, traveling and dancing.  Poetry prizes have been awarded to her for her poems in national and global poetry competitions so far.  She is an elected vice mayor in her town. She had been the president of a local club concerning Epirus traditions and customs for 6 years (2018-2024). She is  a member of the Board of the Academy of Farsala. She has got three children.