Our heart’s visitors
Dimitris P. Kraniotis
A strange talk
With a stony garment
Threateningly hovers
In our every step
Cold drops of courtesy
Burn our breath
Did hope cease
To visit our heart?
The snow today
Isn’t white
It is colorless
Like the iris of our eyes
Like good morning
Which doesn’t come out of our lips
Did love cease
To visit our heart?
A torn poster
In the whirl of the wind
Our every word
Blue pebbles
Sunk in the blue of the sea
Our dreams
Did poetry cease
To visit our heart?
Short bio:
Dimitris P. Kraniotis was born in Larissa Prefecture in central Greece and he grew
up in Stomio (Larissa). He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. He lives in Larissa (Greece) and works as a medical doctor (Internal
Medicine Specialist with MSc in Medicine at the University of Thessaly). He is the
author of 11 poetry books in Greece and abroad. Also he is the Editor-in-chief of an
anthology in English with 205 poets from 65 countries. He has won many
international awards for his poetry which has been translated in 36 languages and
published in many countries. He participated as guest poet in several International
Poetry Festivals. He is Doctor of Literature, Academician, President of the 22nd
World Congress of Poets (UPLI), President of the World Poets Society (WPS),
Director of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival (Larissa, Greece), Chairman of the
Writers for Peace Committee of PEN Greece and member of World Poetry Movement
(WPM), Poets of the Planet (POP), Hellenic Literary Society, National Society of
Greek Literary Writers, etc.