IFIGENIA METOCHI

 

Trickle

 

The clouds are running, but you pass them

Drip drip

you're leaving me behind

The colors marry colors

Are born life

Dances in a painting that will never grow old

In the autumn glades

I open my arms in silence in the rain

It's enough for me to know

that drips God into the souls of children

the brilliance of words …

My life so far

A breath of wind

A speck in time

A drop in the rain …

Surely everyone is missing something

May your absence give less sadness

and let only nostalgia caress our thoughts with the hope

to last another day …

Μay she holds back a little more tear

You are the first winter rain and memory …

That top I haven't looked at yet …

 

 

On The Seashore

 

As I looked for shapes in the pebbles

the sea air spoke to me

Deep and unexplored sea

At dawn, you sit on her mirror, you look at her,

and you think that she is inside you,

as the sun rises...

We look alike anyway

My words wind like yours

Time to let the dreams go,

like we let the sand roll through our mouths

and scatter east and west

Drunk sea

Your world enchanted me

My soul and you filled it with waves...

I dance on a lace

I decorate the dream, my fairy tale

Notes of love given, through colors of rainbows

And beyond …

through the light and the sun,

Aphrodite goddess,

spreads her blue veil,

my sea …

Always crowned with a white foaming wave

with salty dew and breeze

To sing together to you about the beauties of shells,

pebbles, jellyfish ...

 and to be formed, the dream of every little adolescent mind,

always bathed in the beauties of colors, laughter and spectacles ...

 

Life Is Not Time

 

I love the simplicity of those words,

the true ones, that manage to move you

... that reach the heart without much philosophies

The ones that speak to you,

that touch you and that can change something in you

Life is not time

it doesn't matter how long you live

but how much life you manage to capture

I love it, I need it,

it is a source of life for me

Just like the smile that comes from the heart …

It is truly beautiful to embrace life and live with passion,

lose with dignity and win with boldness

Because the world belongs to those who dare

Life is far too beautiful to be trivial

Because.. what remains when we become wind and go

is the love we left behind...

and it doesn't scatter like we do …

It remains within the people who accepted it …

Just listen the sound of silence …

Life goes on, whether you choose to move on

and take a chance in the unknown

or stay behind locked in the past

thinking of what could’ve been …

Be happy, be bright, be You!

 

IFIGENIA METOCHI

 

IFIGENIA METOCHI was born in Limassol in 1974. She graduated from the High Shool “Peter and Paul Lyceum” (Division of Classical Studies). In Athens she received a Diploma in Jewellery (Silver-and-Gold Design and Creation). Furthermore, she is a self-taught painter; she illustrates and designs covers of books. In 1988 she was awarded by the “Seul Olympic Arts Festival” with “The World School Children’s Art Exhibition”. She talks fluently French, English and Spanish. She started writing poetry since she was young. She adores the sea, which since then remains the source of her inspiration in writing and art. She was Treasurer of the Limassol Litterateur Society “Vasillis Michaelides” since the establishment of the 2003. Since 2020 is the General Secretary of the Limassol Litterateur Society “Vasillis Michaelides”. With the Society of Writers of Limassol "Vassilis Michaelidis" in recent years they publish the magazine "Anerada" where she belong to the editorial board of the Magazine "Anerada" which published in Limassol and distributed all over the world. She is also Member of the Coordinating Team for Cultural Activities of Limassol, Member of the PEN (Greece Chapter), Member of the Intellectual Group of Limassol, of the National Society of Greek Writers of Cyprus, Member of the Spiritual Cycle of Limassol, Member of ΕΠΟΚ, recently she became Member of the Hellenic Cyprus Cultural Association (ΣΠΕΚ). She is also Member of the Writers Capital International Foundation, Member of Writers’ Union and Selected Editor in Cyprus for Anthology of Poems (A book of poems of Writers across the Globe) by Chief Editor Matin Bangali. Writers’ Union with Chief Editor Matin Bangali offered her cooperation to be Member – Secretary of Amaravati Poetry Festival 2022 in Dhaka. In addition, she has been elected as Vice-president of the International Association for Hunger and Founding Member of the Limassol Association of Music and Poetic Arts "Mousagetis Apollo". Some of her poems, short stories and articles have been awarded in Literature Contests in Greece as well as in a wider region, translated and published in different languages and have been included in Anthologies and published in literature Magazines. She is a Lyricist. (Writes lyrics, which have been set to music by her daughter, who is a musician, and who sings them). Some have also been uploaded to YouTube. Now they are preparing to release it on CD. In 2003 she published her Selection of Poems titled “Adolescent thoughts”, in 2008 her Selection of Short Stories titled “Of the Sea and the Sun” and in 2021 her stories on memory and tradition, “Painting touches of sea”.