Fictitious
Line
Dimitris
P. Kraniotis
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.
***
Dimitris
P. Kraniotis is an award-winning Greek poet. He studied at
the Medical School in Thessaloniki. He lives and works as a medical
doctor/specialized pathologist in Larissa, Greece. He is Founder
and President of World Poets Society (W.P.S.), the Editor and
Director of the online poetic libraries “Greek Poet,”
“International Poet” and “Hellenic Words”,
the Editorial Director of the medical magazine “Hippocrates”,
President of the Economic and Social Council of the Prefecture
of Larissa, a Member of the Editorial Board of the Greek literary
magazine “Graphi” and a Member of the Board of Directors
of the Larissa Medical Association and Larissa Medical Society.
Three of his poetic collections have been published: Traces
(poems in Greek, 1985), Clay Faces (poems in Greek, 1992)
& Fictitious Line (poems in Greek, English and French,
2005). His poems have been translated into English, French, Romanian,
Dutch and Portuguese. He has won a number of international literary
awards for his poetry (in Greece, USA, UK and France), which has
been published in many countries around the World (USA, UK, India,
Algeria, Korea, China, Brazil, France, Australia, Canada, Germany,
Belgium, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Argentina, El Salvador
& Turkey).
©
Dimitris P. Kraniotis