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:
A zipper that jammed halfways
Walking through the Old City of Jerusalem
over cobblestones slick with rain,
I drink in the sensory rush
In its tumults, I heave and roll like a ship
the echoes of the wind reverberating more
like a Swiss milkmaid than a strangled cat
The drumming of winter rain
that deep chord of familiarity
stirring a welter of emotions indefinable
Caught between the past and the present,
like a zipper jammed halfway, with metal teeth
ground to a halt, peace is digging its heels in
To get it, sometimes you have to let it go
by grabbing the stalled tongue and yanking it hard
the friction, a tertium quid camp.
For other contributions by Sofia Kioroglou, please follow the links below:
- The Cocoon
- Dionysiou Aeropagitou street
- Bring her back
- 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