Paradise is inside us – A Bouquet of Poems from Greece

EVA Petropoulou Lianou

Eva Petropoulou-Lianou was born in Xylokastro, Greece. In 1994 she worked as a journalist for the French newspaper “Le Libre Journal” but her love for Greece won her over and she returned in 2002. She has published books and eBooks: “Me and my other self, my shadow”, “Geraldine and the Lake elf” in English – French, as well as “The Daughter of the Moon”, in the 4th edition, in Greek – English. Her work has been included in the Greek Encyclopedia Haris Patsis. Her books have been approved by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus, for the Student and Teacher library. Her new books, “The Fairy of the Amazon Myrtia “dedicated to Myrto with a disability, and Lefkadios Hearn, Myths and Stories of the Far East, illustrated by Sumi-e painter Dina Anastasiadou, were released in 2019. She recently published her book “The Adventures of Samurai Nogas san” in English by the publishing house OntimeBooks, based in England. She collaborates with the electronic literary magazine ‘The poet magazine’. She partners International Literary Union based in America; collaborates for the promotion of literature and promotes the work of Greek poets. Eva is a member of the “Association Alia Mundi Serbia”, the “International Society of Writers and Artists of Greece” and the “Piraeus Society of Letters and Arts” as well as the Corinthian Writers Society. She is President of Greece Association Mille Minds of Mexico; International Ambassador of e _magazine Namaste India; Advisor and Editor in chief Web Magazine Hubei China; Advisor Member of editorial board Las Olas del Arte Magazine Belgium, and Editor in chief Prodigy magazine USA.

Paradise is inside us

We need love

We need kindness

We need dreams

We need happiness

We are humans

I love humans

I decided to see the best version of them

 

More you see good

More the good is coming out

 

We need more poems

We need more storytellers

We need more Angels

 

Believe

Be gentle

Believe and do good

Paradise is inside us

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Hope for peace

(Syria, Iraq Armenia)

We pray as Jews

We pray as Christians

We pray as Muslims

If all those prayers were one

Nobody needed the war

 

We pray as children’s play

We pray as newborn look the sun

We pray as we see the sea for the first time

 

This think called virus came at night to our bed

Called dark angel try to take our souls

Try to take our dreams

Our existence

 

We call the source above

We pray to the Holy Spirit

 

The darkness came above our houses

The grey cloud near the windows

Nobody knew his name

They call it the Son of Krown

 

No bodies

No injuries

No blood

A body start to become

An empty bottle full of air

 

No breath

No move

Just an empty bottle full of water

 

We pray as birds sing in the forest

We pray as we travel to the Moon for the first time

 

We pray to Holy Spirit

Against the Beast

We must fight

And have no fear

No panic

 

Because at the End

The Angels and Him

Shall rise again.

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Homeland

In a small place

A place we call home

I make a nest with my little hands.

 

In a small place where the heart beat like a taboure

I make a window to look at the sky

 

In a small place that no one else can see or know his existence..

I call it my homeland

I build a strong house for my family

I feel safe and I hear the birds singing every morning

Homeland

Homeland

They sing to me.

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Good morning

My soul sometimes

Love

With passion

 

People are so far

My soul sometimes

Need affection

 

My soul for years

Leave with portraits

 

Portraits of people I love

Father

Mother

Brother

You

 

My soul sometimes

Become so small

Need air

Need hug

 

My soul sometimes

Is a child

That want to smile

 

My soul sometimes

Feel the sadness of the whole world

 

My soul sometimes

Is a bird that wish

To fly high

Travel far

See you

Give you a message….

***

When surprises keep coming

DREAMS

 Dreams are God’s plans

Dreams are the wishes of the Virgin Mary long live the heroes the goodness of people Dreams are the smiles of the Angels

Dreams are the colors of the rainbow Dreams are your words when they speak to me

Dreams are the love that makes everything strong and full of light …

***

I need to write a poem

A poem that will serve as peacekeeper

Between the God and Humanity

Between the brothers and sisters

Between myself and my mood

 

I need to find the verses

Be completely different from the past

And so new to fit in the present

 

Need to have one truth

Justified and accepted

 

Need to write a new story

A new book about the life

 

Every single day is a new discovery

People become evil

Failure earn in so many levels

And love is replaced with food

 

People are divided

Between those who love the food

Between those who love the humanity

 

Need to write a poem about the fear

And the dark

 

But many of stars are shining

So must not afraid of darkness. But definitely need to re organize in our mind what the unknown is like?

 

People are divided

Between those who love the food

Between those who love the humanity

 

Is so, difficult to think with the stomach full

People forgot to love and they become

Slaves of their stomach

Little servants of this great stomach

That cannot filter anything

 

Poetry unites people

Poetry travels faster than the unknown words that remain unborn

In the mind of an author…

 

Need to write a poem

About the happiness

The smile of the children

 

The journey that never ends….

Who is the captain of the boat??

*** 

Metaphor of hearts

The bird said if you ever decide to love me,

I hope you have two hearts with you to give me one…

 The last one who told me that he loves me so much,

 Deeply entered my old heart,

Made it fall apart and melt away..

 

Since then, I fly high without a heart with the clouds of the company..

 

So, if you love me

Keep that in mind

 I’ll need a heart… a loan heart…

***

Dear Soul

Close your eyes

Let your soul free

Open your heart to me

 

Hope I am the shoulder

You will cry

The eyes to see you’re good and bad

 

Life is full of small miracles

U are this miracle for me

 

Let your sorrow

Embrace your mistake

People come and go

 

Hearts and soul

Are meant to be together

In a moment

Suddenly without asking

Without talking

In a perfect magic moment.

***

To the unknown man

Long distance relationship

Days you smile

Nights I cry

Days you become silent

I become so communicative

 

Birds are coming from far lands

Back to their nest

Wondering will you come to our nest

Long distance relationship

My why become so long

Your words are a rainbow

In my rainy moments

 

Hope the heaven hear my prayers

Soon you are free from unknown chains

 

Hear my heart beat

Hear my heart voice

 

More and more

Every day

Every night

Singing for you

My precious man…

***

Wishing be a star

I could be a wish

No importance if I was big or small star

My wish it depends on the person that make it

Asking for peace and happiness

Wishing be a cloud

A Grey or a white

I could express the feelings of people who cannot speak

Rain day if they are sad

Sun day if they are happy

 

Wishing be a star

***

For my father

Death took children and young people Death has always been like that Unfair… do you want to know about death?

 

 It is slow and painful, does not discriminate, he comes suddenly and takes loved ones like lightning like a thunderbolt like a sharp knife… Keep them deep in your heart

 

Those who left…

Burn a candle for the soul to see on the dark path, put water near the candle to quench the thirst of the soul A pray, God forbid you say … God hears and acts!!

 

In my deepest fears

Alone I walk….

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