Three blue poets fill our life, one singing the blue from the sky

the other the waves of the sea and, the third whispers the wisdom of the wind

No matter to which shores the poem takes us,

with which clouds we want to travel,

with the wave of a blue scarf,

the white sail of a boat, or the wing of a plane

there is always the wisdom of the wind to carry us

To reach the shores of dreams,

with flowers, pebbles and sea shells as treasures.

The nights were we talked at blue tables

with friends or on the phone miles away,

listening to the tide at full moon,

the fun we shared traveling in a rental car without lights

on an island looking to avoid a monastery and

ending up spending the day there in the arms of a Saint,

bringing with us healing oils and sacred water

The paintings we discovered in the small museum, in our faces

and on the street corners looking down to the sea,

feeding a foreign hungry artist

at the little coffee shop by the seaside

We didn’t exchange letters and alphabets like our ancestors,

didn’t care if the numbers were Arabic or Greek,

didn’t even try to find common ground…

Because three blue poets, a painter and a musician filled our life

with the waves of the Mediterranean…

Xanthi Hondrou-Hill is a Greek poetess and translator who was born in Germany and studied German and English Literature, Linguistics, Journalism and Public Relations Management in Germany. She has worked as Teacher for Greek language and culture at the University of Stuttgart, as journalist and as Public Relations Manager at the Greek Consulate in Stuttgart. She is the founder and director of the International Poetry Festival of Naoussa.