Awarded in Athens

AUSTRALIAN POET
RECEIVES GOLD MEDALLION IN GREECE

Poetry in motion
Walking into the 3rd Millennium

2nd Olympiad of Culture
Program.

Barrie and Turtle

The Missing Peace
Here I am in Athens hanging out with artists from all over the world!
The people are very helpfull and most speak enough english to get me by. Traveling on my own is very character building. With attending the convention and being a tourist hours are very precious.

Although I do not speek Greek, there were many friendly people ready to whisper translations. I was officially presented to the crowd as a poet representative of Australia, and asked to say a few words about myself. On the writers night I recited a poems in English from my manuscript, and then had the translated versions recited in Greek.

The experience was a great learning curve for me.

President Mrs Chrissoula Varveri-Varra
My invitation arrived in July, and I was helped by the Mildura Arts Council to attend. They paid my airfare, my garage Mechanic, a friend in Gloucester, UK and my parents helped me with the expenses.

My parents reminded me I had spent my third birthday in Athens, when my family visited, on our way to spending a year in Reading, England. Now I have also spent my 24th birthday there, having been invited to this marvelous event.

Getting my medal was a real buzz. The Greek are such giving people, my only wish is that I could spend more time there.

The plan is... I will be back.

Barrie and Chrissoula
Barrie, Medal and Chrissoula

Sprite with Leggo Remembering Athens

Do the marbles still remember
The fall of chisels on their hide
On those so beautiful in number
Where Socrates and Plato confide

Do the pillars still remember
The words so etched in history?
From their eternal slumber
We still tell their story

Does Dionisis' theatre know
The plays therein performed
And those who watched the show
When the Acropolis was stormed

We are the Olive berries
Descended from this zone
Our culture allways carries
The words heard by the stone

Even today the minds unite
To build and grow and sow
We learn together from the plight
To know where we're to go

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