Special Correspondent,
Global Newz, Kolkata, India,
3rd’Nov’2023, Friday.
You Came Like Spring
– Paraskevi (Voula) Memou – GREECE
On the cherries’ birthday,
the loneliness of nature
found solace and hope.
How can I fall silent before such a harmony and splendor?
With blossoms in hair,
and a piece of sun in the place of heart,
you became spring,
light and life,
and you came to the feast at the crack of dawn.
We will weave together,
this spring’s wreath,
with wildflowers and wild roses.
You will speak and I will remain silent.
I will remain silent and you will sing to me
the approach of swallows.
Your touch… like rare stalactites
in an armful of armoured promises
of sealed secrets and mysteries.
Sunrise colors pacified the storm,
in the cavern of unguarded sighs,
planting armfuls of May roses
in the butterfly forest.
Maybe I was born this spring
or I bore moon roads in the midwinter.
About The Author:
Paraskevi (Voula) Memou – GREECE – is a film director. Poet.
She was born and raised in Kalavryta, in the north of the Peloponnese. In 1984 and 1985 her poems were published in Hydria and Ostraka magazines. Her first directorial work was the short film ‘ALTAMIRA’ and in her career she has collaborated with important Greek actors. The film based on her poetry, entitled ‘The Great Power of the Sea’, was shot in 2008. She has collaborated as a news journalist with many newspapers in the Peloponnese. In 1985 her first collection of poems entitled “Traversing” came out. In 2006 she published a book with news articles, entitled “Living Speechlessly”. Her poems have been published in many anthologies and the Greek Literary encyclopedia HARRY PATSI hosts her poems. Her collection of poems entitled ‘Upon Andromeda’s Rock’ came out in 2018. The collection of poems entitled ‘You are the Man” came out a year later, in 2019. 2020 the collection ‘unruly words’ in English and Greek language.2021 the collection ‘Γκραβούρες στο χάρτινο σπιτι’,a collection in Greek and Serbian language. 2022 a collection “ Tree poets, tree friends” in Grreek and Croatian languages.She has won numerous awards in international competitions. In the latest international festival in Serbian she won plaketa . in edition of the Nosside World Poetry Prize – Nosside World Poetry Prize, in 2019, one of her poems, entitled ‘Supplicants of the Gods of the Poor’, was awarded a prize. Since 2020 she has been a Member of the National [Panhellenic] Union of Litterateurs, Greece.her poems are translated in some languages.[frances,Chinois,Beggali,Arabian,Espangol,Serbian,Croate,Ukrainien].