IOANNIS KARAJOLI
Earth’s Gravity
Let your soil and passion embrace us
to make us
reveal our secrets!
Let your sky embrace us,
the sky that colours our love,
so we can learn the language of the earth
in order to start a new life.
Earth, I love your smell!
Within you the soul gets mature and from my
ash
a new love will rise,
and endless roots will be fed with my ash,
roots that will form a myth and
a thousand novels!
The Ship
Leaving with my back
looking with my eye
my only light, the moon.
My only companion, the wave.
The memories are beautiful
in nature.
Flights of joy to the ports of happiness
having the moon as a guide,
upon the wild waves
I travel across the Aegean’s darkness
and I get lost.
Travelling from Piraeus Harbour
Siros
A metropolis rises from inside the vast
sea.
A bride of the Aegean seeks her match in
vain.
She crawls on the high stairs seeking
secretly
the blue sky for a fiancé.
A lively town with theatres and cafés
An oasis with beautiful people
A city with many buildings
Scheduled by specialists.
Everywhere beautiful diamonds of the past
follow us
They still have something of their old
charm
Everywhere at the palaces of the Aegean
Syrians full of life and happiness,
there, in those distant winter nights,
share their dreams with us on land.
The ship has just arrived
The Turkish delight and halva perfume
is waiting to sweeten
the dear passengers.
A wonderful world is hiding under
the velvet dusks
of the Endless Aegean Sea.
IOANNIS KARAJOLI
IOANNIS KARAJOLI: Is a
Greek poet, born in Syria on 09/01/1951 in Efrin city, north from Aleppo. His
family is of Kurdish origin. He spent his early childhood in the city of Efrin
where his father served as e Prefect. His mother, Amina Seicho, was a gifted
and charismatic woman, with numerous artistic qualities. His father, Adnan
Karajoli, was a writer- lawyer who fought for the rights of the beloved Syrian
people. In the spring of 1955, the Karajoli family was relocated to Damascus,
where they had previously resided. He had the opportunity to study in beautiful
Romania, at the Bucharest Dentistry School and he finished his studies by
acquiring the specialty of Orthodontist. After he completed his course of
studies, he had the opportunity to visit Greece, after being invited by his
Greek fellow students. Since then, 34 years of creative work have passed,
delving in the area of orthodontics and literature. He is a founding member of
a Greek association for Orthodontic study and research, with an Honorary
distinction at the 9th Pan-Hellenic orthodontic congress (Athens 2006)
He barely felt as a foreigner in Greece. He received
the love of the Greek people and he still enjoys it, here in beautiful
Thessaloniki, Macedonia. In the summer of 1985, the Muse bestowed her gift on
the poet, thus he started writing his first verses. His first poetic collection
was published in 2011 under the title “Colors of an Era “, from ALDE
publishing. His second poetic collection was published in 2018 under the title
“Hellenic speech, Light of the World “, and his third poetic collection under
the title “The daughter of the North “, and his forth poetic edition under the
title “ The Moon of the Orient “ and his last poetic collection under the title
“ Love And Tenderness . He is a member of the Litterateurs Association of
Northern Greece and of the cultural social institution “Amphictyonic League of
Hellenism”. He received ‘Honorary Distinction’ at the 4th International Poetic
Contest on “Hellenic speech, Light of the World” (Thessaloniki, May 3rd, 2014)
. He gave a lecture at the 3rd International Amphictyons Congress on : The
History of Hellenic-Syrian Culture, they took place at the French Institute of
Thessaloniki (May 2014) , at the festival: Celebration of Multilingualism on: Language
and Communication (Municipality of Thessaloniki, May 30th and 31st 2014) at the
“1st Panhellenic Contest –Bequest of Nana Kontou 2010” by the Association of
the Smyrnian people of Asia minor in northern Greece , with his poem titled
“Smyrna” (Thessaloniki, November 20th 2010). His work under the title “Colors
of an Era “ was published on the
magazine “Critique of Language and Art , positions and views “ (50th issue ,May
–July 2015). He became a member of
WIP and Peace Ambassador branch
of SYRIA in
2018. He lives in
the town of
Thessaloniki – Greece .
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