Dimitris P. Kraniotis

 Born in 1966 in Stomio, a coastal town in central Greece. 
He studied at the Medical School in Thessaloniki. He lives and works as a medical doctor 
specialized pathologist in Larissa, Greece. He is vice-president of the Larissa Writers' and Poets' Society, 
an executive member of the board of the Larissa Medical Society and the editorial 
director of the medical magazine "Hippocrates". 
Three of his poetic collections have been published: 
"Traces" (1985), "Clay Faces" (1992) and "Fictitious Line" (2005). 
Central theme in his poetry is contemporary man, his impasse, his worries, 
his fears, his hopes and dreams.  
 


 

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.
 
 
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.
 
 
Rules and visions  
 
Life counts
the rules;
the sunset, their exceptions.
Rain drinks up
the centuries;
spring, our dreams.
The eagle sees
the sunrays
and youth, the visions.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
The end
 
The savour of fruits
still remains
in my mouth,
but the bitterness of words
demolishes the clouds
and wrings the snow
counting the pebbles.
But you never told me
why you deceived me,
why with pain
and injustice did you desire
to say that the end
always in tears
is cast to flames.