ROULA POLLARD
ATHENS IN THE LIGHT OF PRAYER
Under the sea darkness
darkness of ancient spirits
I saw. Then, I tried only the sky
to read, to understand Your
holiness
when Apostle Paul speaking
fervently,
like a flame, to ancient and
contemporary
Athenian citizens said “Search for
the divine”
Yes, the divine nests in our heart
and soul
even when walking on the pavement
of doubt
where a euro is a far away land all
people search for
Athens, my international prayer
my inner prayer, spoken, whispered
felt to the core, even un-uttered
on my skin
a prayer for a new era of more love
and Peace
on my new land, in search for
citizenship of inner self
© Roula Pollard
SWEET DREAM
I had a dream, I saw the earth
pure on the first day of creation
I had a dream, Jesus healed
the blind man. He created his
eyesight mixing clay,
water and earth in a glimpse of
light.
I saw how He, miraculously healed
a blind soul with rays of His
light.
I saw my soul, healed
I had a dream, Jesus healed
the blind soil of the earth today.
I had a dream, all souls on Earth
were healed
today
© Roula Pollard
THE SEA IS MY PASSION
It is Tuesday, perhaps next year
yesterday, today, or tomorrow
and the church bells passionately
ring a song for you
The sea
is my flower
our love cradle
I hold her as I hold
your hand, tenderly
like holding your breath
your smile, your return, your being
you, I am like her of many shades
of blue
I am her, uncontaminated,
untouchable sea
do not touch, do not dare pollute
her again
you promise me, you love her
unconditionally
you love her unpretentiously like
you love me.
She is an unprotected child in the
emptiness of words
a stray orphan is the sea, like a
lost refugee orphan
she is a child
my child
of mine
me
©
Roula Pollard
ROULA
POLLARD was
born in Greece; she studied History and Archaeology at the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens and obtained an M.A. in Classics at Leeds
University in England where she lived for 25 years establishing her
international appearance in Letters. She is a celebrated Greek poet, writer,
playwright, translator, literary promoter, and environmentalist. She has
received international Poetry awards and participated in many international
festivals. Her work has been included in more than twenty-five International
Poetry anthologies and published in various literary magazines around the
world, along her personal engagements, she promoted the work of more than 150
poets, writers, and artist worldwide. Roula has published three Poetry
collections in Greek, also, her poetry collection “Century of Love” written in
English has received much critical
acclaim. “Century of Love” has been translated into Telugu by the distinguished
Indian poet, writer, and translator Dr. Lanka Siva Rama Prasad. She is
translated in French, Italian, Albanian, Spanish, Hindi, Urdu and Telugu. She
runs the group “Sharing Friends of the Arts Hollywood International” founded by
the Senior Senator Pasqual Bettio (ret), she is on the Board of Directors of
Atunis-Galaktika international Poetry Magazine. She advocates peace, the
environment and a new humanism.
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