HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The Writers' Group of Washington DC will start off the New Year 2016 with a group meeting at
the Hellenic Center.
Schedule:
10-11 am - Poetry Group
11-12pm - Writers' Workshop
12-1pm - Writers' Group Meeting
A few members wrote poetry for Christmas, and we would like to share below:
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Christmas
May the brightness of Christmas
Shine in your eyes
To change the way you see life
And give light to
The ever increasing darkness.
May the goodness of Christmas
Fill your hearts with joy,
To cherish everything and everyone
Under the sun and the moon,
Tall or small, rich or poor.
May the spirit of Christmas
Send you the ultimate peace
That embraces stillness
And wraps you in a blanket
Of snow-white love.
May the beauty of Christmas
Stir the love inside
Each and everyone of you
So that you may witness
The miracle of Christ's birth.
May the love of Christmas
Join hands with you
And bind the hearts
Of family and friends
Not only on Christmas day,
But on every day.
by Patty Apostolides, 2015
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Χριστούγεννα 2015
Μέρα γιορτής, μεγάλη
Της Χριστιανοσύνης
Μέρα χαράς, αγάπης
και ειρήνης
Φίλοι κι’εχθροί
ανταμώνουνε
Και λεν ν’αγαπηθούνε
Κι’ολου του κόσμου τα
παιδιά
Τρέχουνε να χαρούνε
Αν είναι τούτη τη
φορά
Τις αμαρτίες ν’αφήσουν
Κι’ολα τα μίση
πούχανε
Ήθελε να ξεχάσουν
Χριστούγεννα να
είχαμε
Αλήθεια κάθε μέρα
Μα υποκρισία και
ψευτιά
Πόλεμοι, διστυχία,
Πείνα, αρρώστιες και
πνιγμοί
Δεν έχουν προθεσμία
Η δε χλιδή δε
νιάζεται
Η φρίκη δεν ζυγιέται
Μα στον φτωχό τον
ανθρωπο
Ενας Χριστός
γεννιέται
Τούστειλε σήμερα
βροχή
Για να ξεπλύνει τις
πληγές
Τις αμαρτίες όλων
Και το αστέρι φάνηκε
Μετά την καταιγίδα
Κι’εφερε το μήνυμα:
AΓΑΠΗ και ΕΛΠΙΔΑ!
Kalliopi Toufidi Christmas 2015
Holiday,
the biggest of Christianity
A day
of joy, of love and peace
Friends
and enemies meet
And say
would love
All children
of the world
Run for
joy
If
this is the time
For sins
to be left
And all
hatred would be forgotten
Christmas
would really be every day
But hypocrisy
and deceit,
Wars,
misery, hunger,
Deseases
and drownings
Don’t
have time limit
Opulence
doesn’t care
Horror
not scales
But
for poor man
Christ
is born
He
sent him today the rain
To wash
away the wounds and sins of all
And the
star appeared after the storm
It brought
the message:
LOVE
AND HOPE
Kalliopi Toufidi
Christmas 2015
