Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
BIOGRAPHY: Christos Dikbasanis is a poet, writer and scholar of religions. He was born in Thessaloniki in 1961, where he graduated from the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Master’s Degree (MTh) in Religious Studies. He writes poetry, essays, studies and short stories. His poems and essays have been presented in many literary magazines, print and electronic. Many of his poems have been dramatized by the theatrical groupes “DITHYRAMVOS EX AMAXIS” and “PARAVATES TIS SKINIS”. Also, Christos Dikbasanis has been included in the “GREAT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN GREEK LITERATURE of HARI PATSI “publications, as well as in the “WHO’S WHO” of journalists. He has published poetry collections and books: The Memoirs (poems) 1984, Escape to the State of Man (study), 1986, Crumbs From Green Galaxy (poems), 1991, Concert at the Edge of the Night (poems), 1994, Worship of the Great Snake (essay), 2002, The Climbing the Wall (poems), 2002, Etho-Government: The Road to the Methuman (essay), 2003, Occult Adam: The Man of Cognitive Texts in the Passage of Time, (essay), 2003, Monsters and Dragons (essay), 2011, The Aversion and the Pilgrimage – The Poems of Chaos (poems), 2011, Animals-gods, Sacred Animals (essay) , 2012, Noga – The Awakening of the Nightmare, (novel), 2017, Escape to the Impossible – The Poems of Chaos (poems), 2020, The Reaper of Spring (poems), 2020, Worship of the Great Snake (essay, 2nd edition), 2022, 200 Steps Away (poems), 2022, 100 Βreaths Away from the Nightmare(poems), 2022. He has participated with his texts in many collective works. He is a member of the Society of Writers of Thessaloniki. His life and work are always inspired by his great love for human, nature, Universe, anthropology, mythology and especially the research of the history of religions. In addition, he has been honored with important national and international awards.
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LIFE AND LOVE ARE ELKS
Silent night, immortal night
Our love is born
The desires as elks run quickly through the snow
The dark past seems a distant dot,
like all the sighs of our life
The iced wind hits us, but in a purifying way
He is happy for us, smiles at us, sings songs to us
for the first day of a new reality
It floods our heart with pure light
It’s in our hands
that it may never again be extinguished
It’s up to us to have always lucid dreams
No chain of malice and hatred
can enslave us again
No one darkness, none war
can extinguish our hopes anymore
for a peaceful tomorrow
No more screams to be heard
at the last frontiers of the world
May life and love always be the glowing deers
that will take us away
from the hardships of injustice and pain
DON’T BE AFRAID
Fear no more!
We have arrived at the hospitable planet
whom we have been searching for all lifetime
In his unknown desert we will now light fires
to warm the love, the desire for a new life,
the end of our loneliness,
the expectation of a new beginning
in the days of the creation of new worlds,
our destination which has God’s blessing
Fear no more!
The dangers have passed
Seasons of cleansing rain are coming
The death that lurked in our eyes
it is now nowhere
It will be long before the time of our departure comes
for other secret corners of the Universe
Let’s warm our hands together!
Tomorrow we will have many nice things
to make for ourselves and for the human race
THE THINGS THAT BELONG TO US
The vanity of people is endless
It is spread by the defilement of the air
up to greed dioxide in space,
from our unholy desires
till to the unfair competition of profit
We launch the aura of our dreams
at the ends of the universe,
looking for planets of happiness,
cause we can’t stand life on the globe such as
we humiliated her
The light of our visions
for a bright life
no longer flashes continuously
Now it repels us
othertimes it invited us
Other wishes remain
at the bottom of pessimism
Others reach the peak of greed
We continue the fight between
the impermissible and the defiled
to the indifference and the failure,
to the forbidden and the unjust
We hate to love the environment,
the Nature, our eternal home.
But they are beside us
some minimal dreamers
which they fiercely claim
what suits us and belong to all of us
