April 7, 2018
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou

Upon first glance, Dionysiou Aeropagitou street
looks like any other cobbled pedestrianized plot
Flanked on one side by antique looking houses
bustling with life and music wafting from a roving cellist
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August 11, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou

First published in the Silver Birch Press “Beach & Pool Memories” Series (June-August 2016).
Swathed in silky aquamarine waters, far-flung, butterfly-shaped. Astypalea, the bank of Gods, is my ultimate escape from the scurry and scramble of bustling Athens. With a frozen piña colada, I behold the rugged beach fringed in gas-blue waters, not holding out much hope of sighting a mermaid.
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June 8, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou

Life is like riding a bicycle
You don’t fall unless you stop pedalling
But what about freewheeling?
It is like allowing your life
to be controlled by destiny
The truth is that I have never learned
to ride a bike but only to freewheel
I love flying by the seat of my pants
I just love the unpredictable
I just want to see life like a walk in the park
*The poem was originally published in June’s Winamop issue
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May 16, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Your stabs hit me exactly where you hope they would
with such ferocity that gouges out all vanity and conceit.
A knife thrust through the illusions of my bloated ego,
An ugly distortion of an inner image through a plastic glass
which finally crumpled with me looking at the looking-glass self.
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May 4, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
I see an obstacle
always a roadblock
in my dreams and when awake
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April 25, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
I know I am not much of a poet myself
I just love to describe what I see
what touches my heart, what leaps to mind.
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April 10, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
For a moment I thought
I had found a new home
I was swathed in blankets
and given some food.
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March 30, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou

Death never forgets.
Our sins will haunt and
find us out so beware
Be not deceived;
God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap
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March 24, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Poetry challenge: Easter poem.

I see my Lord, the Way, the Truth and the Life
He moveth on wearing a crown of thorns, carrying a cross
I see my Lord crawling on the raggedy way leading to Calvary
the blood from his forehead smarting His eyes.
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March 17, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
I am
not a saint
I try not to swear
but sometimes I do
I try
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March 12, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Raitho
the Land of Fruits
the biblical Elim
a stopping place for travellers
El-Tur


The photos were taken on Mt Sinai last year
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March 9, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Jerusalem
The city of Gold
Jerusalem
Where Jesus walked
O’ Holy city,
Holiest of all
The land where Lord
on the Mount of Olives
would stand to talk.
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March 7, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou

I fell in love with a frog,
who was sitting alone on the banks of the Nile,
mooning over the premature decease of his beautiful wife.
He was sobbing his heart out,
his lips convulsed with woe, dripping emotion,
his chin atremble, the words buried in a raven black but deafening silence.
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March 1, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Je déteste les mensonges
S’il te plaît, ne me mens pas…
il est préférable de me faire du mal
au moins ce sera la vérité
—
Don’t lie to me
I hate lies
So don’t lie to me
It is better to hurt me.
It will be the only Truth
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February 26, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Terrorism
Dark and Lethal
Shooting, bombing, killing
Blood, Corpses, Chaos, Anarchy
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February 22, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
The leaves have turned yellow
the skies scowl at me
lobbing thunderclaps and lightning bolts
drenching me with torrential rain
The scowl deepens
as I enter Attica Toll way.
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February 19, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Ein Karem
John’s birthplace
The city of Juda
7.5km south-west of Jerusalem
Blessed
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February 15, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Your chocolate eyes sparkle
effervescent and fragile
they melt like cream in your latte
as they flutter like a butterfly before
its flight to heaven.
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February 12, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
Death never forgets.
Your sins will find you out
and come home to roost
So, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap
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February 9, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
I go around in circles
around myself
having lost my destination
I am stuck in my mind's morass
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February 8, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou

I met you on Madison avenue
four thirty in the afternoon
while trying to catch a ride back home.
Not careful.
Head buzzing with dates and numbers.
I just bump into you.
My soulmate clock stops.
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February 5, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
The photo was taken on Mt Sinai last
December during my trip to Egypt
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Woe betide the unwary
engulfed in worldly pleasures
Accustomed to seeking the material well-being
For if we had been blind
we would have had no sin.
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February 3, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
The Woman of Purple
Lydia of Thyatira
The Merchant of Purple cloth
The Porfiropolis of Heaven
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
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February 2, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou
I have No regrets
I have learnt from my mistakes
We live with the scars we choose.
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February 1, 2016
by Poetry and Literature by Sofia Kioroglou

It smells like winter.
The hot tea is steaming in the mug
Peter got from Hong Kong on his last visit,
along with a pinkish scarf.
I am anxious to see him back on terra firma.
He called to say he’s lost his visa.
But rest easy!
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