RANIA ANGELAKOUDI

 

Beckoning

 

Ink is dripping from my pen,

water is dripping from the ceiling.

Night descends to claim my being

in a house bleak and wrecked.

Lonely the mind wonders off

to weary journeys dark and long

heavy my body on the mattress falls

with silent tears my pillow soaks.

Come, like the sun

rising in the morning,

like drew resting on plants

and envelop me in your arms.

Come, so I can feel your scent

So, I can paint you red!

 

Suddenly

 

like lightning scorching the soil,

like hail crashing the crops,

like an earthquake devastating the ground,

like lava gushing forth

and sweeping everything away!

This is how you came into my life.

 

Like a bold of lightning, like an earthquake

you tore my soul asunder,

rampaging through my emotions,

derailing my sensibilities

tossing me down in the abyss.

 

And just as suddenly, you left!

 

You stormed away

and I was left a broken twig

of a tree charred,

my life in ruins

buried deep under the lava!

 

Until the time comes

that you stretch out your arms

to pull me out of the rubble

to pull me up from the abyss!

 

Only then will the earth be green again!

Only then will the Northern Star light up

the grey sky!

 

Tempest

 

Insufferable the city seemed

shrouded in its gray beauty,

smog from the buses

and shouts from the marches.

A space closed off like a bubble

we are like animals in a jungle

bitter voices…empty promises…

a rampant rabble!

Then you like a tempest came

sweeping everything in your stride,

and the jungle became a meadow

the rabble a caress

the gray became a mirror

the city changed its dress

life its sail sets!

 

RANIA ANGELAKOUDI

 

RANIA ANGELAKOUDI was born in Kronaberg Sweden where she spends plenty of her time. She had the opportunity to meet people and places in her different trips exchanging ideas among other artists regarding life, man and Mother Nature she loves too much! Her studies in English Literature and language helped her to meet the international Poets in combination with the Greeks. Her thoughts have been influenced by them as a result she created her own poetical path. Being invited at the poetic festivals in Singapore, Tawian and Hayderabad in India from cultural authorities her poems taking part in international and national anthologies and competitions this offered her significant awards. Some of the most important are: Ιn2015 under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of culture based in Ankona. She was awarded in a special ceremony in Museo della citta and she is the unique Poetess in Greece who has received that honour. She has nominated as the ‘Icon for World Peace’ in November 2016 for the devotion of her penwork to peace. Later in January 2017 she was titled Peace Ambassador at large for Greek and Swedish Branches for World Institute for Peace global organization. She has contributed work to a number of national and international Collections and Anthologies. Via her writing path she was announced a member in honor from FIJET union of Journalists based in France. Her books can be found in the historical library Stadsbiblioteket in Stockholm and her poems have been translated into Italian, Swedish, Bosnian, Spanish, Turkish, Serbian, Arabic, English, Hindi of India and Slavic language.