EVANGELIA - AGGELIKI PECHLIVANIDOU

EVANGELIA AGGELIKI  PECHLIVANIDOU

Earth Victimizers And Victims

We killed your first-born beauty

That filled our existence with life

Wherever we step, whatever we touch has been corrupted.

We erased our nobility unilaterally.

We broke up and mowed and reaped

Being creative, being progressive, -so thinking-

Shattering down the foundations of thousands of years

And thus, little by little we are perishing.

We are Gentlemen, we consider and inflate

We subdued the Earth like being kings

Disaster bully punters, we squander, we consume

Our Mother Earth like cannibal bosses.

We smeared the sky with dirty clouds

Hiding routes and paths from our hopes

Our eyes and sights lying burnt and hurt

By us, savage terrorists of our future.

We fought to satisfy so many “I want”

Obfuscating our self-criticism

We did not protect the Nature-hug

Blurring and harming our sea wealth source.

As bellwethers we stand in the forests ravage

The Earth became a tombstone with "Here lies" on.

Faint-hearted and drunken “horsemen” we are

Below a sun that is taking vengeance of.

Being totally stuck in indifference to sloth

In exhaust fumes, garbage and pollutants

We have erased quality from our lives

Each one of us, people, is  a sinner, blind Oedipus.

Evangelia – Aggeliki   Pechlivanidou

Thýtes tis gis kai thýmata

Tin protoplásmoti omorfiá sou ti skotósame

Pou gémize zoí ta sothiká mas

Ópou patoúme, ó,ti angízoume alloiósame

Svísame monokóntyla tin archontiá mas.

Dialýsame, therísame, trygísame

Dimiourgóntas, proodévontas, -tharroúme-

Chiliádon chrónon ta themélia nkremísame

Kai lígo lígo ópos páme tha chathoúme.

Eímaste Kýrioi, theoroúme kai fouskónoume

Tin ypotáxame ti gi sa vasiliádes

Pseftopallíkara katastrofís, katanalónoume

Ti Mána Gi. Anthropofágoi afentádes.

Ton ouranó me néfos mountzourósame

Krývontas ton elpídon mas tis strátes

Ta mátia kai to vlémma mas pligósame

Tou méllontós mas ágrioi tromokrátes.

Ta «thélo» na kalýpsoume palépsame

Tholónontas tin aftokritikí mas

Ti Fýsi-ankaliá den prostatépsame

Lavósame ti thalassopigí mas.

Choménoi stis adiaforías ti nothrótita

Sta kafsaéria, ta skoupídia kai tous rýpous

Diagrápsame ap’ ti zoí mas tin poiótita

O káthe énas mas amartolós, tyflós Oidípous

Evangelia – Aggeliki  Pechlivanidou

I'm Not Giving Up

Having my broken wings stacked

Somewhere between the years baggage

I struggle

To keep the happy moments.

The very few that have remained

To die like butterflies

In winter whiteness of emptiness.

Ghost joys that haunted

My aged experience.

Torturers moments

Which are beheading my hopes.

Moments as light as a feather

Cheating on you

In every light sough of the wind.

Flashes that burn my wings

And leave gray ashes sculptured

And I still keep fighting

With my wings hopelessly broken

Causing pain and hope

- Every pain always shows that you are alive –

It is not yet time to accept the defeat

I do not give up as long as I am in pain.

I exist.

Evangelia – Aggeliki  Pechlivanidou

Apotassomai…

Apoklírosa tis méres mou ap’ ta páthi

ki apelefthérosa tin psychí mou ap’ ta desmá tis.

Tóra apeléftheros, lafrýs, lefkós, gemátos…

fýtrosa gioúlia, agioklímata kai giasemiá

stis anoichtés tis pórtes kai sta parathýria kai stous kípous,

gia ósous théloun na apodrásoun stin avlí mou.

Apélasa tous doúlous tis zoís mou pou m’ eíchan kánei sklávo tous.

Apekopsa ta dáchtyla pou ánthizan ta mátaia,

ákarpa, pathogona aisthímatá mou.

Apétaxa ta iovóla tóxa mou apoteichízontas tis aretés.

Apókama na kouvaló to varý fortío tis kenótitas

ki apoíkisa ton eaftó mou sti chóra tis sképsis

Evangelia – Aggeliki  Pechlivanidou

I banish…

I disinherited my days from my passions

And I released my soul from its bonds.

Now being free, light, white, full…

I sowed yulia, honeysuckles and jasmines

In the open doors and windows and gardens,

For those who want to escape into my backyard.

I expelled the slaves of my life, who had enslaved me.

I cut off the fingers that anthologized

My vain, fruitless and pathogenic feelings.

I banished my venomous bows, breaking through the virtues.

I got tired of carrying the heavy load of emptiness

And I colonized myself in the land of “thought”.

Evangelia – Aggeliki  Pechlivanidou

Den paraitoúmai

Me tis spasménes mou fteroúges stoivagménes

kápou  anámesa ston chrónon tis aposkevés

Agonízomai

na kratíso tis charoúmenes stigmés

Óses eláchistes apómeinan

na pethaínoun san petaloúdes

sti cheimoniátiki lefkáda tou kenoú.

Charés fantásmata pou stoícheiosan

ti gerasméni empeiría mou.

Stigmés vasanistés

pou apokefalízoun tis elpídes mou.

Análafres san poúpoula stigmés pou s’ apatoún

se káthe apalothróisma tou agéra.

Lámpseis pou kapsalízoun ta fterá mou

ki afínoun nkrízes stáchtes smileménes.

Ki egó na synechízo na agonízomai

me tis fteroúges mou atherápefta spasménes

na prokaloúne póno kai elpída

-pánta o káthe pónos deíchnei óti zeis-

Den írthe akóma o kairós n’ apodechthó tin ítta

Den paraitoúmai óso ponó .

Ypárcho.

Evangelia – Aggeliki  Pechlivanidou

EVANGELIA - AGGELIKI  PECHLIVANIDOU

EVANGELIA - AGGELIKI PECHLIVANIDOU is a retired High School teacher. She is a mother of three children and lives in Thessaloniki. She had activated her students in a lot of projects, winning many prizes for her school and herself as a teacher. She is a respected poet and author. She can write adequately in every literary genre. She has had 13 books published, all of them in different poetical diction and topics, but the majority of her literary work is still unpublished. Many of her poems and stories have also been published in magazines, anthologies and internet websites. She has been mentioned in many omnibuses and encyclopedias. Evangelia - Aggeliki has received many literary awards in contests of different genres from local and foreign entities. She has been an active member in social life in a lot of ways. For 6 years she wrote and presented a broadcast in a TV channel of worldwide range on historical, literary and other timely aspects. Furthermore, she is a Member of   many Literary and Cultural Organizations and Societies. She had also been elected as President of the Union of Northern Greece Writers. She is currently a member and Greek section Editor of the Diasporic Literature Spot e-magazine. Lately she has been elected as Vice- President of “Amfiktionia  Ellinismou” a worldwide organization for culture,  in Thessaloniki .