Sofia Kioroglou is a twice award-winning poet, published writer and prolific blogger residing in Athens, Greece, with her husband Peter. She remembers herself born with a quill in her hand writing poems and painting beautiful pictures.
Her poems have played on the radio and are included in many anthologies, and a number of literary journals and printed books that include Dumas de Demain, Galleon Liferary Journal, Pengician, Lunaris Review, VerseWrights, Galway Review, The Outlaw Poetry Network, Festival For Poetry, Verse-Virtual, Spillwords, In Between Hangovers, Writink Page, Silver Birch Press, The Blue Nib, Poetry Super Highway, Halkyon Days, Ashvamegh, Fractal.gr, and Winamop, to name but a few.
To learn more about Sofia Kioroglou’s work, visit:
Bring her back
Six draped female figures
Greet me on the porch of the Erechtheion
Enchanting maiden dancers beckoning me
With baskets of live reeds on their heads
Waving their hands on the balcony
Immaculately attired and coiffed
The maidens of Karyai weeping over their looted sister
Stranded alone in the cold British museum
I try to wipe a tear off their eyes
And all I get is a dirty look
“Not acting is conniving” she whispered
Alas, one angry stare from you is worse than Gehinnom *
* Gehinnom is a small valley in Jerusalem and the Jewish and Christian analogue of hell.
For other contributions by Sofia Kioroglou, please follow the links below:
- The Cocoon
- Dionysiou Aeropagitou street
- A zipper that jammed halfways
- Ode to Cyprus …
- Christmas on Hydra
- The island of the iron …
- Astypalea
Poetry in this post: © Sofia Kioroglou
Published with the permission of Sofia Kioroglou