Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
Lost oar. Lost boats. There is no use in counting them. What does it say about love? Our hands that are joined together. Maybe life is too short to talk about love. I will do all I can. I’ll do what I can so I don’t lose you again. Maybe true love is not to ask too much. A love that does all it can to take care of you. Woman. If that is a boat, a man is just an oar.
You are the boat and I am the poor helm. That’s all the route I can take. Maybe that is what I wanted. What I have learned in the long voyage is sincerity. The light that is born in the hands of both of us. A light that comes from our cold hearts into the hands of both of us. That’s all you and I knew and forgot.
A quiet, very quiet flame of passion. In this cold world of violence and graves, it is enough for two people who love each other to join hands. Our world is nothing more than a small light between our hands, here and now. We hold hands and look at each other. We don’t need words to say we love.
Biography Taro Hokkyo
1998 Rekitei Shinei Award in Japan.
2021 Arab Golden Planet Award.
2022 Awarded the title of Doctor of Letters from the Arabic-speaking world.
2023 My poems are published in Orfew.al magazine in Albania. Also translated into Italian
2024 My poem is published in the Daily Global Nation in Bangladesh.My poems published in Samantaral Bhabna, India. Interview with an Algerian newspaper is published. My poem is published in Greek Police Magazine. Received a certificate of honor from English poets. Published in a Korean magazine. Published in Koltaka jishu International Poetry Magazine, India. My poem is published in a Greek e-magazine.My poem is published in the Barcelona Literary Magazine. My poem is published in Poetry Planetariat, a Nepalese poetry magazine. My poetry collection is published in Bengali-speaking countries. Three of my poems were published in India’s Half-yearly magazine. Three of my poems were published in the Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine. My poem is published in Hyperpoem in Nepal.
