“The women we love possess a divine essence
and when we hold them tightly
in our arms
we become one with the gods
we rise up like ferocious towers
nothing can bring us down
and they with their white hands
cling to us
and all the peoples and nations
come to worship us
crying out our name
immortal through the ages
because the women we love
also convey to us
their divine
essence”

[Excerpt from the poem “Hymn to the glory of the women we love”
by Nikos Engonopoulos]

Translated by Thanasis Maskaleris

Credits: Manto Vassili, Panos Astor Koffas, Iris P.