Sofia Kioroglou is a writer, translator, lexicographer and painter born and bred in Athens, Greece. She is an avid reader and iconographer of saints and believes in human kindness and sacrifice. She would be a cave recluse in Raitho or Sinai had she not met her husband Peter in Jerusalem at the Holy Light Ceremony in 2012. As for her poetry, she was one of the winners in the 4th Ceasar Dapontes Poetry Competition and her poems have appeared in many international literary journals and magazines such as Silverbirchpress, Halkyon Days Magazine, Verse-Virtual, Dumas de Demain, Ashvamegh, Poet’s Corner, Writink Page, Bonsaistories as well as in many anthologies like the Poetry against Terror Anthology, the Spiritual Horizons Anthology and the Universal Values Anthology. Her poetry will soon be featured in the Poetry Against Inequality Anthology.She is also a historical novelist and writes flash fiction for fun.
I fell in love with a frog,
who was sitting alone on the banks of the Nile,
mooning over the premature decease of his beautiful wife.
...
Your stabs hit me exactly where you hope they would
with such ferocity that gouges out all vanity and conceit.
A knife thrust through the illusions of my bloated ego,
An ugly distortion of an inner image through a plastic glass
...
I am walking ahead and ahead
and still in the same place.
I am treading water
walking through a morass.
...