EVANGELIA – AGGELIKI PECHLIVANIDOU

EVANGELIA – AGGELIKI  PECHLIVANIDOU

COME ALONG CALLING FOR FREEDOM

Come along with us

Up on the snow-white mountain

To search and find our shelters

Among the trees

Ensure our tracks are not erased

On the snow

That’s spread over nature wild

-With respect -

Come along with us

To feel our breath

That warms you tenderly

In the engaging cool.

If you listen carefully

You can hear it

In the vast tranquility

Of the snow-covered old fur-tree

Happily sleeping under its cape

Made of snow.

Come along with us

Become free like we are.

If you feel pain

Out of slavery to the soul,

You will understand our swiftness

Rolling down silently

Within the veins of our instincts,

Setting our presence away

From your eyes.

Come along with us

The snow is longing

To taste your tracks,

Oh Man,

On its untouched embrace,

Liberated,

In sisterly hold with our own.
We!  The animals!

THE EAGLES PERISHED

The eagles perished away

In their running after fashion

And glory ,

In their pursuing the ordinary

And the tasteless

Their tail got entangled

In the meagerness

Of  the “string” pleasures.

The glance was fixed

Upon the low and easy games.

The eyes became unable

To turn to flights to the top.

And the wings became incapable

Of holding the weight

Of valor

For the hummocks.

Poor eagles having

A sparrow’s wings

And a turtledove’s singing

Who hallucinate perfumed veils

From shy night flowers

And seaweeds which rotten on the reef

Out of loneliness.

The young eagles nestled their dreams

Broken into pieces

Under sunless shelters

Having no direction or target

In the sounds and flashes

Of “dexterous” spotlights.

The hooked bills perished

Under the lipstick

Of vanity.

LOST TARGET

We have been dancing in bars and cafes

We pay in checks and in soul

Our goals in life have been erased

We have become veterans having no uniforms

And been all black and grays.

We have been running after Kroisso’s ghost

Grandguiniols become VIPs and stars

Drugs, discos and all crazy cars

Being  inhabitants of a lost Paradise.

Everybody took a portfolio and made himself a doctor

Dictators and sponsors are in their heights

We ’ve lost “plus” and “minus” when calculating

Our only(very) goal is to be “in”.

Gods got drunk on Olympus mount

Our targets are being sold out

Being not caring fully governs us

Angels threw away their wings and became “cool”.

GLADIATOR

When I try to look at my little moon

my eyes are burning.

When I try to get hold of the sand

at the bottom of the sea

I run out of breath.

When I try to listen to the ripple of waves

the tempest overflows my thought

When I try to feel the pulses of the voice

the echo demolishes their origin.

When I try to shout out of joy ness

my voice is drowned sobbing

under the attack of falseness.

When I try to lay my soul out in the lightness

hypocrisy pulls close the curtain

being ironically sarcasting.

I am a gladiator without weapons and fighting armor

wrestling in an arena full of lions

and on the bleachers

a finger is risen downwards.

So simply!

Just for the merit of the times being.

EVANGELIA – AGGELIKI   PECHLIVANIDOU

EVANGELIA – AGGELIKI  PECHLIVANIDOU is a retired teacher of High School who lives in Thessaloniki with her family (3 children).  She had activated her students in a lot of programmes bringing many prizes to her school and herself as a teacher. She is a respected poet and author. She can write adequately in every literary genre. Despite the publication of many books (12), the majority of her literary work is still unpublished. Many of her poems and stories have been also published in magazines, anthologies and internet sites. She has been mentioned in many omnibuses and encyclopedias .Evangelia has received many literary awards in contests of different genres from local and foreign entities. She has been an active member in social life in a lot of ways. For six years she wrote and presented a broadcast in a TV channel of worldwide range on historical, literary and other timely aspects. Furthermore, she is a member of many Literary and Cultural Organizations and Societies. She has also been elected as President of the Union of Northern Greece Writers. She is currently a member of Diasporic Literature Spot committee.