Caressing Myths

By Libros Libertad Publishing

Dina Georgantopoulos was born in Vrahati, Corinth. She studied at the Law School of Athens. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines on line and in paper form. “Caressing Myths” is her first poetry book outside Greece.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Libros Libertad Publishing
• Release date: Sep 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310672309

Libros Libertad Publishing

Manolis was born in the small village Kolibari west of Chania on the Greek island of Crete in 1947. At a young age his family moved first to Thessaloniki and then to Athens where he was educated, achieving a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science at Panteion Supreme School of Athens. He served in the armed forces for two years, and emigrated to Vancouver in 1973, where he worked in several different jobs over the years.He attended Simon Fraser University for a year, taking English Literature in a non-degree program. He has written three novels, a large number of collections of poetry, which are slowly appearing as published works, various articles and short stories in Greek as well as in English. After working as an iron worker, train labourer, taxi driver, and stock broker, he now lives in White Rock where he spends his time writing, gardening, and traveling.Towards the end of 2006 he founded Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company in Surrey, BC, with the goal of publishing literary books.

Book preview

Sins of the Night

Little sins of the night

wait for me

to travel to other nights

resembling my small

shivers gathered

my bigger sins trying

to find space

in prayer when

I beg of forgiveness

for not embarking

on the voyage

Υψηλή Θερμοκρασία

Κάθε μέρα γεμίζω και αδειάζω ρούχα

με σειρά, με ευλάβεια

αδειάζω και γεμίζω πιάτα και ποτήρια

προσέχοντας μη καταστραφούν

στην υψηλή θερμοκρασία

Στη τελειότητα της προσπάθειας

καίω τα χέρια μου που γίνονται

απ’ τη συνήθεια εξαρτήματα

εξαφάνισης κηλίδων μα

ξέρω σε τι αντέχω πια

Το να βρω ισορροπία σε υψηλό ρίσκο

θερμοκρασίας μου πήρε χρόνια

Θέλει χρόνο να μάθεις να κάνεις

το αντίθετο

που έκανες σ’ όλη σου τη ζωή

High Temperature

I fill and empty cloths daily

coherently

in reverence

I fill and empty plates, glasses

carefully albeit I shall ruin them

in the high temperature

In the wholeness of my effort

I burn my hands that become

habitual tools

that erase stains

yet know what I can endure

To find my balance in the

high risk of temperature that

long ago existed took years to learn

Truly it takes time to learn

the opposite of what

you have been doing all your life

Φλογερό Πάθος

Όλη η ζωή μου βουνό

ένα μοναχικό πεύκο

που περιμένει

μια πανσέληνο

να φωτίσει

των ριζών του

το φλογερό πάθος

Fiery Passion

My life a mountain

and a lonely pine

that waits

for the full moon

to light

the fiery passion

of its roots

Υποκύπτω στο Φιλί

-Μυρίζεις χάραμα

-Α κι εσύ σούρουπο

Είμαι αμήχανη

μα μου αρέσουν τα λόγια

που στέκονται

στη καμπύλη του