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Christmas on Hydra
Christmas on Hydra.
Fingers interlocked
squeezing tightly
I and you
looking at
the shimmering sea
kissing each other as
passersby are surreptitiously
stealing a look at our eternal
bliss
swathed in mufflers
with breaths misting up
the crisp winter air.
I and you
melting
into each other forever
during this holiday season.
1

Jarring disjuncture
As wide asunder from pole to pole
My Eastern and your Western
in jarring disjuncture I am breaking
laying to rest the yawning divide.
East is East and West is West
and never the twain shall meet.
In dissonant chords and yodeling voices
My North I cede to your South.
The ice is cracked open
melting our hemispheres’ differences
into oblivion, engulfed eternally
in an ocean of seamless convergence.
2

A doleful ditty
Disturbers of the earth and of heaven
nothing weighs on our conscience.
Let’s sing a doleful ditty and then weep
as ye sow so shall we reap.
3

A monster
In today’s world, creation means destruction
Unravelling time-honored values means fixing
bombing for the sake of peace charitable work
By strangling free speech, you create a monster
which you then call a Savior
I am a journalist,
I simply report the facts as I see them.
4

“Hic de Virgine Maria
Jesus Christus natus est”
Bethlehem,
so remarkably unimpressive
and yet so holy.
I long to visit you
Small and humble
but great and glorious.
Hic de Virgine Maria Jesus Christus natus est
an inscription reads
as I get to a grotto.
A fourteen-point silver star
embedded into the marble
is now indelibly embedded into my memory
scorching its way into my heart
burning that moment into my brain.
5

Jerusalem
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.
You appear so beautiful,
with beauty so singular
no master wordsmith
could capture in verbal form,
no painter could accurately paint
on canvas with oil colors so vivid
and glorious as its past.
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BIO
Sofia Kioroglou is
a writer, translator,lexicographer
and painter born
and bred in Athens,
Greece. She is
an avid reader and iconographer of
saints and believes in human kindness
and sacrifice. She would be a cave recluse
in Raitho or Sinai had she not
met her husband Peter in Jerusalem at
the Holy Light Ceremony in 2012. As
for her poetry, she was one of the
winners in the 4th Ceasar Dapontes
Poetry Competition and her poems have
appeared in many international literary
journals such as Silverbirchpress,
Verse-Virtual, Ashvamegh, Poet’s Corner,
Writink Page, Bonsaistories as
well as in many anthologies like the
Poetry against Terror Anthology, the
Spiritual Horizons Anthology and the
Universal Values Anthology. Her poetry
will soon be featured in the Poetry
Against Inequality Anthology published
by Fabrizio Frosini, a famous
Italian poet and publisher. She is
also a historical novelist and writes
flash fiction for fun.