Dimitris P. Kraniotis (Greece) was born in 1966 in Larissa Prefecture, Greece, and grew up in Stomio (Larissa). He studied Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and currently lives in Larissa, Greece, where he works as an internist. He is the author of 11 poetry books, with his works translated into 36 languages, and has participated in numerous international poetry festivals. He holds a Doctor of Literature degree and is an Academician. Kraniotis serves as President of the 22nd World Congress of Poets, President of the World Poets Society (WPS), Director of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival (Larissa, Greece), and Chairman of the Writers for Peace Committee of PEN Greece.

 

 

 

MOVING

 

 

 

We ’re naked now

 

We donned the colors

 

Undressed words and voices

 

 

 

We ’re blind now

 

We drank the light

 

Swam in death

 

 

 

With alcohol and tobacco

 

In our luggage

 

We testified falsely

 

Forgetting who we are

 

 

 

We built our life

 

On a bird

 

And we flew again

 

Simply we moved

 

BLAST FURNACE

 

 

 

Early ash

 

Of the blast furnace

 

Thrown into the sea

 

Like another emigration

 

Of our fate

 

 

 

The uncertain

 

Of our will

 

And the impassable

 

Of our morality

 

 

 

Every morning

 

That we mourn dreams

 

Every night

 

That we offer promises

 

 

LIST OF SURVIVORS

 

 

 

Decorated dreams

 

With ideas of achievements

 

Full of missteps

 

Mistakes and guilt

 

 

 

You hang for earrings

 

Like a ghost of waves

 

That in the shipwrecks

 

Is lost

 

In myriad versions

 

 

 

Without ever

 

To be

 

On the list of survivors

 

Without ever

 

To be drowning

 

In people's orders