Author: poetryfest

VERSE 1

When I drive around my town
See heaps of summer loves abound
Nearly crash eyeing you in that gown
Desire wonder stunned I’ve found
A match to me to wear my crown
Kill to take you dancing down
A passionate highway of magic sound

To win you
I’d do any all it takes
Fueling a wonder naturally wild
Propelling an instinct freestyled
Impusive hunting caught beguiled
Before long gonna get me exiled

Blind blinker boy me
On fire can you not see
Molten spills so naturally
Dripping prostrate for ye

Spun connection in eyes
Rip pounding love vibes
Spinning me in tides
To blown away highs

Heightened awareness
Subtle close demureness
Engaging every magnetic
Fiery furnace frenetic

Cock of the walk
Mister love to you
Watch my stride
I got what it takes
Standing out in the stalls
From outback beyond
A stallion brave
Athletic and strong
I am your song
Jump on and belong

Happily submit to my way
Pointless not to accept prey
But I’ll do anything you say
Playing me running away

Pretending never been kissed
Feeling a fizzy zest twist
A love not to be missed
Of beauty duty to coexist

CHORUS

Behaviour birds of paradise
Flipping out any sacrifice
Capturing you at any price
Want you naked on a bed of ice

VERSE 2

Pumping out charm
Embrace your alarm
Grab me by the arm
Due destiny on palm

Precipice on my knees
Fleeting momentary
Leap through this sea
All caution cast free

Over horizon run race
Wild passion on face
Quick cut to chase
Heart pace thumping bass

Hands touch connected
Feeling either complected
Buzzing undertone reflected
Dizzying energy affected

Dearest sweetest eloper
Seconds pass we closer
Nitro fuel heart head spin
Oh lushness daring darling

Eyes upon gazing
Pupils dilating
Tickers we racing
Frenzy pulsating

BOOM!

Kiss touch SMACK!
Game over WHACK!
Something begins

Waterfall devoting sugar coating
Love springs all a doting
Skin touching skins
Graceful flutter we got wings

CHORUS

Behaviour birds of paradise
Flipping out any sacrifice
Capturing you at any price
Want you naked on a bed of ice

VERSE 1

Such privilege and great honor
To own an Angel
Sadly anyone can
Justly as if they are to be wedded
Pet breeders and owners
Should be heavily vetted

So happy and merry
Legend of legendary
I’m hairy not scary
Go walkies foot ferry

Forever young in spirit
Outstanding in Merit
So smart so cool
You learn the rule
At puppy school

Creme de la creme
Star emblem
Childlike moonbeam
Dream team supreme

Knowledge of me is key
Keep me free
A reflexion of owner
I’m whatever you make me
Happily I bend my knee
You’re the trainee
Of all I will ever be

Don’t cage us in a fuss
The cage is my safe place
Where I feel secure
My special space base

Unconditional love
Simple so sweet
Think about me and treat
Kindly and well

I may seem strong
Hit me not
Striking us is wrong
Effects of that is long

Friends of timeless joy
Your devoted Envoy
Us not a toy
Always a Good Girl! Good Boy!

CHORUS

A trillion caret creature
Quintessential of nature
Bravest type of saint
A blank canvas you paint

Loyal and honest
Your besty for life
Whisper and command
Together we stand
My paw in your hand

VERSE 2

Dog shaking
Hot day we baking
Leave not in car
Care us near and afar

Exciting spark
In the park
Hark at our bark
Out in the dark

Hyper ball game
Electric lightning aflame
Definite ball thief
Often all teef

Big eyes beg we trick
Bolting food quick
Eat till we’re sick
Always find biggest stick

Love learning new tricks
Three hundred million smell receptors
To your mere six
World speaks us sense of smells
Can even detect threatening cells

Contradictory though we
Stick nose on in poo wee
Custom greeting not for thee
Sniffing nether areas in glee

Great range of jobs unconfined
First car was a sled pulled by K-Nines
From norm hunt herd guide guards
Art protection crisis responders
Lobster catching spit turning chefs
Whale poop truffle finders
Detectorists of milk wine humans
Wildlife control and many more

Awestruck Angelic contagiousness
Whomever lucky be eyewitness
Such heroic courageousness
All Dogs true selflessnes

Hard to miss feel see our worth
Our heaven is down here on earth
In service and joy please we not a toy
Just simply natures love envoy

CHORUS

A trillion caret creature
Quintessential of nature
Bravest type of saint
A blank canvas you paint

Loyal and honest
Your besty for life
Whisper and command
Together we stand
My paw in your hand

VERSE 1

This humble snow show Romeo
In a happy Christmas glow
See Cupids busy with his bow
You’re driving me all Gonzo

Look up from that stupid phone
Throw this friendly dog a bone
Don’t let me be all alone
I’m all wrapped up for you to own

CHORUS

Make me Happy
Happy Happy, Happy
Happy we can do
So Super Happy, Wahoo
A Happy Christmas
A Happy Christmas for two

VERSE 2

I’m just a simple man
An idiot man
Who just wants happy
I’ll give it all to you

Crazy locked in a love joy zone
My hearts yours on permanent loan
A shining Knight pleasure prone
Your besty own slave drone

Just Misbehaving in happy hello
Smooching slow under mistletoe
Ya know there’s nothing we’d not do
Party pash tripping not blue

CHORUS

Make me Happy
Happy Happy, Happy
Happy we can do
So Super Happy Wahoo
A Happy Christmas
A Happy Christmas for two

VERSE 1

Conspiracy or Conspirators
Naming the theorists so
Interests in the dough
Keep real undertow

Hidden libraries why
Someone knows
Casting us spell
Thinking tends dwell
No way is a hell
Fishy old smell
Well well well well
Clandestine cell
Asking to be felled

Know more of space
Than what’s in the sea
A matter dark we cannot see
Hypothetical gravity absentee

Secrets lost in rocks
Clues buried or burned
Imagination spurned
Bubbles me brain urn

A different age smarter
Aliens did we barter
Prevailing masters
Our ancestry of laughter
Current date disaster
Greater and dafter

Life’s greatest question
An endless obsession
Skulls all in session
Knowledge suppression
Suffer oppression
Forefathers transgression

Body’s acting on our Sun
Climate change smoking gun
Electric false economy spun
Elite and oil Barons Fun

Solar Storms heat us
Creating money with fuss
Looks good on paper bus
Soon all superfluous

CHORUS

Insignificant in the magnificent
An unfathomable mystery
Stone art reliquary
Dark deep bewitchery
Missing delivery
Our heritage history
Much contradictory
End the trickery

VERSE 2

Spooky action at a distance
Proven other worldly existence
Quantum entanglement insistence
Boggles most to Indifference

Tesla found Aether
Free energy professor
Better society Forever
For whomever wherever

Abundant motion Magnetism
Slaughtered by depotism
Old ruler elitism
Killing off any altruism

Great kind mind scattered cast
Free energy no profit vast
Their only crime past
Nice guys finish last

Blind to see
What’s all around me
Technology stunted we
Should stayed in the trees
Or not got out the seas
Are we not the disease

Triangulated universe
Infinity obverse
Scientific traverse
Or mind metaverse

So baffled all we can see
Is governed by light far away
Travelling to us in our Galaxy
Divided stumbling human betray
Shameful territorial play
Unity of us all made of clay

Upmost rationality
Wealthy in spirituality
Let and let be internationally
Healing Gaia fantastically
Advancing tirelessly
Past primate whimsicality

To the oceans and above
Focus ought to dream of
Share everything well
Working truths to tell
No heaven nor hell
Life could thrive swell
Bidding egos farewell

CHORUS

Insignificant in the magnificent
An unfathomable mystery
Stone art reliquary
Dark deep bewitchery
Missing delivery
Our heritage history
Much contradictory
End the trickery

VERSE 1

Love life besotted by you
Fun run swum with you
Smoke high hung with you
Dream fires food with you

Road fly adventure with you
Laugh live crime with you
Give everything betray for you
Fight forever lie die for you
Just to save you nobody else
Your body your smell
The sweet sweat on your lips
Morning hand on your hips
Waking close caressing your dips
Comfort and care
Never no time to spare

CHORUS

You were my one
My only one
Best of the best
Ripped heart out my chest

VERSE 2

Lost now to fear
Shocking tear
Sit and stare
Days weeks months
Too much to bare
Invisible pain
Daily strain
No weight gain
Fighting flat out
I see you about
Hide my love
But it’s easy to see
Heart churning
Swallow deep
Mourning loss and yearning
Entire being a hole
Vortex in my soul

Dark dusty existence
Salvation hanging
On your every word
Your indecision
Promise of hope
Numbingly I wait

I run away
But call to ask
Answers the same
Blood curdling drain
18 months pass
Nothing gets close
Utter morose

I phone again
Angry and sad
Beg to be glad
Shattered by words
World turns end over end
The line goes dead
Can’t go back instead
Shuddering and sick
Muscle spasms
Collapse in the dirt
An hour a minute
Want to die
No answer in I
All alone I cry
Grief of goodbye
Memories a lie

Need time to try
Fly fly fly
Pulling together
Whatever is left
Mojo lost
This is love’s cost
Lose time and identity
Over now
Adrift in the ocean
Heal me and seal me
Never again let it in
Love is a sin
To believe in

Years pass to hatred
Piece is missing
Tattered and burned
Never to return
Gone no trace
Sheild in place
Stupid optimism
New loves
New lifes
Move forward
Past gone
Only now

CHORUS

You were my one
My only one
Best of the best
Ripped heart out my chest

VERSE 3

Unconditional
You could do no wrong

Betrayed me bad
Of all we had
Naive to your ways
Cast to dog days

Earth won’t just rewind
Since you left me behind
Stole you my time
A most heinous crime

Away you fled
Fiance not wedd
Left me for dead
Mighty O’dread

Now I sing a very different song

Be lucky and happy
In grateful intent
Hurry no worry before
Time is spent

CHORUS

How much I long for you
To feel our embrace
Nature in its finest breath
Momentary standstill
Of all Aether meth

VERSE 1

Your eyes and sweat glisten
Sold am I
So alive we be
Together we glide
Shimmer and slide
Bride of brides
Turning of tides
Comets collide
Particles divide

Fluid movement
Entwined deep
Hearts leap
Captured beautiful
Creation from stars
Essence of everything
Primordial pairing
Staring Staring Staring
You me we I thy

CHORUS

How much I long for you
To feel our embrace
Nature in its finest breath
Momentary standstill
Of all Aether meth

VERSE 2

As if weightless
Such marvellous flight
Soaring new heights
Tuned in excite
Such wonderous light
Bright so bright
Bite slice all life

In this moment
No past nor future
Only now
Love is us
Entirety of the universe
Captured composite
In this moment

You tell me I let go of social media
like the last of three wishes.

Remind me how too much screen time
is bad for the eyes,
that I don’t leave my house,
get no exercise.

My heart is a motherboard (you say);
it keeps the rest of the machine going.
That my ears, nose, and throat
are USB ports that bring
the outside world, inside.

When I tell you how information sparks
my consciousness,
you show me a stack of books
I haven’t read.
Greeting cards I haven’t sent.
A canvas left abandoned
of my habit of adding
Cerulean blue shading.

Our lives are not a series of texts
and emojis that have replaced
the need for speech
and therefore, spelling.

Grammar is not an antiquated
language no longer practiced
by the masses.

Devices are not relationships
because they don’t give back.

Independent thought starts from within
regardless of wattage or processor,
a string of ideas that carries
in perpetuity like finely crafted code.
The errors are minor
when things flow unimpeded.

Synapses are like programming bits,
they work best in pairs.
 

She bit me

She actually bit me
She warned me many times
but I never saw it coming

Her perfectly even teeth
left perfectly even bite marks
top to bottom, side to side

On occasion, I admit,
we have had our disagreements
which often end with shouting
Bite me, Bitch!
and slamming out the door

But this time she bit me
She really bit me this time

and I never saw it coming

I want to fight with her again

In the ceasefires
I plant at the four corners of the horizon
where the blood of my brothers blackens in the sun
seeds of peace.

In the ceasefires I light candles
to light the paths of the spirit
traced and lived by Gandhi.

In the ceasefires I open the door to strangers
to come and share bread, water, roses.
In the ceasefires I build with my hands
the dreams of children
of the whole world.

In the ceasefires I touch
the hearts of those around me
to erase the pain of the past,
to join together to become a circle
To become dance, joy, song.

In the ceasefires I plant
The seeds of my lyrics
To speak in the tongues of the world
to become an eternal hymn for peace

Bio Note
Xanthi Hondrou-Hill

Xanthi Hondrou-Hill is an award winning Greek poetess. She was born in Germany and studied German and English Literature, Linguistics, Journalism and Public Relations Management in Germany. She has worked as Public Relations Manager at the Greek Consulate in Stuttgart, as teacher for German, Greek and English and is translating poetry from and to all three languages. She has gained international recognition during the pandemic. Her poems have been published in many international prestigious media and anthologies around the world. She has won in 2022 the first prize at the Gandhian Global Harmony Association and is poetess of the Year 2022 in China, won the 2023 Rockport Poetry Festival Award and has received awards in Ukraine, Phillipines and Equador. She was named one of the 30 Stars in India for 2022. She is cultural Ambassador for OXYGEN PEN Sri Lanka, NAMASTE magazine in India and editor for poetry columns at Faretra.info in Greece, HUMANITY in Russia, as well as co-editor for the international poetry magazine in China for 2022. Selections of her poetry have been translated into Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portugiese, Russian, Spanish, Slavic as well as in two Languages of India: Hindi and Bengali. She is the founder and director of the International Poetry Festival of Naoussa. She received in December 2023 an honorary doctorate from the Camerata International Escritores & Artistas in Madrid.

We are liars.
Post our accomplishments and smiles.
Destinations –
you flew miles.
Your whole life stacked up on tiles.

We are liars
Share our concerns about that fire.
Posting a black square
Makes you seem like you really care.

We are liars.
Your life is wild.
How can you be sad- you look so glad?
Always tagged.

We are liars.
Look at everything I have.
this faux life you wish you had.
We are liars.