George Christodoulides (Γιώργος Χριστοδουλίδης)

Καλοκαίρι 1983

Language: greek

Translations: german (Sommer 1983)

Καλοκαίρι 1983

Δύο καρέκλες δίπλα στο αλακάτι
όταν ανεβαίνει το νερό
χαμογελάνε τα γαϊδουράκια και προχωρούν.
Απέναντι η κληματαριά δεμένη στα μαλλιά του.
Φέτος θα δώσει πολύ σταφύλι
έλεγε κάθε χρόνο ο παππούς
που η αισιοδοξία του
ποτέ δεν επαληθεύτηκε από τα γεγονότα.
Στα ψάθινα καλάθια του
στοιβάζονταν μόνο
ζουμερές ελπίδες
τις ποδοπατούσε κάθε χρόνο το φθινόπωρο
και βγαίνει κρασί καλό
να ποτίζεται και να μεθά η προσδοκία
να μην περιμένει άλλο.

George Christodoulides

Γιώργος Χριστοδουλίδης

photo © gezett.de

* 07.01.1968, Russia

George Christodoulides (*1968, Moscow) is a Greek Cypriot poet and journalist. He grew up in Larnaka, Cyprus, studied journalism in Moscow and worked for TV broadcaster Sigma in Nicosia. He has been a member of the management board of the Cyprus Journalists Association for more than ten years. Christodoulides’s work broaches the theme of poetry as means of adapting to the world linguistically. His expression is compact and reinforced with symbolism, which allows him to transform political conflicts, including the division of Cyprus, into an unsentimental and poetic process of recognition. In 1996, he won the First State Prize for a New Poet for his debut work. He won the State Prize for Poetry for his second volume of poetry in 2001. His works have been published in German in the “Zypern literarisch” anthology (Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus 2008).

photo © gezett.de

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