Dimitris P. Kraniotis - The Best from Greece

Dimitris P. Kraniotis is an award-winning Greek poet. He was born in 15 July 1966 in Stomio (Larissa), a coastal town in central Greece . He studied at the Medical School of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. He lives and works as a medical doctor (Internal Medicine specialist physician) in Larissa, Greece.

He is the author of 7 poetry books: “Traces” (1985), “Clay Faces” (1992), “Fictitious Line” (2005), “Dunes” (2007), “Endogram” (2010), “Edda” (2010), “Illusions” (2010).

He is Academician of Academy Tiberina of Rome (Italy), Academician of International Academy of Micenei (Italy), Doctor of Literature by World Academy of Arts and Culture (USA), elected President of 22nd World Congress of Poets (Greece 2011) by United Poets Laureate International (USA), President of World Poets Society (WPS), National President of Spanish-American Union of Writers (Peru) in Greece, Ambassador in Greece of the organizations “Poetas del Mundo” (Chile), ” Writers and Artists Association of the Orb” (Peru) and “Society of Latin American and European Writers” (Italy), Poetry Ambassador by the National Poetry Month Committee (USA), Universal Peace Ambassador by Universal Ambassador Peace Circle & Universal Peace Embassy (Switzerland), Vice-President of Larissa Union of Poets and Writers, Vice-President of Thessaly Association of Letters and Arts, Vice-President of Larissa Medical Association “Hippocrates”, Editorial Director of Greek medical magazine “Hippocrates”, Member of the Board of Directors of “World Harmony Association” (Russia) and Member of the Editorial Board of Greek literary magazines “Graphi” and “Pneumatiki Larissa”.

He is member of several literary organizations: National Society of Greek Literary Writers, Hellenic Literary Society, Greek PEN Centre, Hellenic Society of Physician Writers, International Society of Greek Writers, International Writers Association (IWA), United Poets Laureate International (UPLI), World Academy of Arts & Culture (WAAC), Poetas del Mundo, Union Mondiale des Ecrivains Medecins (UMEM), Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, Union Hispanoamericana de Escritores (UHE), Asociaciοn de Escritores y Artistas del Orbe (AEADO), Sociedad de Escritores Latinoamericanos y Europeos (SELAE), etc.

He has won a number of international awards for his poetry which has been published in many countries around the World. His poems have been translated into English, French, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Dutch, Turkish, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Portuguese, Bengali, etc. Central theme in his poetry is contemporary man, his impasse, his worries, his fears, his hopes and dreams.

His official website is: http://dimitriskraniotis.com/

Ariadne’s note: Dimitris has sent a poem for World Poetry International Festival in Richmond, BC, Canada, May 14-15th. Register for the festival or send a poem for the display.

POEMS by DIMITRIS P. KRANIOTIS
Ideals
Snow-covered mountains,
ancient monuments,
a north wind that nods to us,
a thought that flows,
images imbued
with hymns of history,
words on signs
with ideals of geometry.

Fictitious line
Smokes
of cigarettes
and mugs
full of coffee,
next
to the fictitious line
where the eddy
of words
leans against
and nods,
wounded,
to my silence.
Illusions
Noiseless wrinkles
on our forehead
the frontiers of history,
shed oblique glances
at Homer’s verses.
Illusions
full of guilt
redeem
wounded whispers
that became echoes
in lighted caves
of the fools and the innocent.

One-word garments

Waves of circumflexes,
storms of adverbs,
windmills of verbs,
shells of signs of ellipsis,
on the island of poems
of soul,
of mind,
of thought,
one-word garments
you wear
to endure!

 

Dimitris P. Kraniotis (C)

 

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