Poetic Habitat
The poets
live
in their
poems.
They are
born in them
they grow
up there
they are
raised by the words
in the
spaces they breath
they are
resting on the punctuation
and even
when they leave
they
exist in the white of every piece of paper
at the
edge of every pencil
and in
the infinite possibilities of
expression in every language of the world..
European Avenue...
European
Avenue
Avenue of
Wealth
Avenue of
Speed
European
Avenue
Avenue of
Inscriptions
"Out
with the rich"
Yuppies
RAUS!
European
Avenue
Street of
Loneliness
Number of
fortune
Parallel
to poverty
Perpendicular
to the railway
Collateral
of the banks
Take-off
or landing runway
of foreign
expectations
and dreams...
Λεωφόρος
Ευρώπης...
Λεωφόρος
Ευρώπης
Λεωφόρος
Πλούτου
Λεωφόρος
Ταχύτητας
Λεωφόρος
Ευρώπης
Λεωφόρος
Επιγραφών
“Έξω οι
νιόπλουτοι”
Yuppies
RAUS!
“Europa
Allee”
Οδός
Μοναξιάς
Αριθμός
Ακρίβειας
Παράλληλος
της φτώχειας
Παράπλευρος
των τραπεζών
Κάθετος
του σιδιρόδρομου
Αερόδρομος
προσγείωσης
και
απογείωσης ξένων
προσδοκιών και ονείρων.
Seeds Of Peace
In the
ceasefires
I plant
at the four corners of the horizon
where the
blood of my brothers
blackens
in the sun
seeds of
peace.
In the
ceasefires
I light
candles
to light
the paths of the spirit
traced
and lived by Gandhi.
In the
ceasefires I open
the door
to strangers
to come
and share
bread,
water, roses.
In the
ceasefires I build
with my
hands
the
dreams of children
of the
whole world.
In the
ceasefires I touch
the
hearts of those around me
to erase
the pain of the past,
to join
together to become a circle
To become
dance, joy, song.
In the
ceasefires I plant
The seeds
of my lyrics
To speak
in the tongues of the world
to become an eternal hymn for peace
XANTHI
HONDROU-HILL
Xanthi
Hondrou-Hill is an award-winning Greek poetess who
gained international recognition lately. She is writing poetry since high
school and her poems have been published in many international prestigious
media and anthologies around the world. She has won in 2022 the first prize at
the Gandhian Global Harmony Association and many awards in China, Ukraine,
Phillipines and Equador. She is cultural Ambassador for NAMASTE magazine in
India and editor for poetry columns at www.faretra.info in Greece and HUMANITY
in Russia, co-editor for the international poetry magazine in China. Selections of her poetry have been translated
into Arabic, Chinese, French, German,
Greek, Italian, Portugiese, Russian, Spanish, Slavic as well as in two
Languages of India: Hindi and Bengali.
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