THAT RING YOU GAVE MEI am so excited to see my poem running in Silver Birch Press this morning!Thank you SBP, fellow bloggers and poets for your enormous support and encouragement and for always reading my work!
That ring you gave me…poem by Sofia Kioroglou (MY PRIZED POSSESSION Poetry and Prose Series)
November 24, 2016
That ring you gave me on that day
more beautiful than a blossoming rose
a symbol of your undying devotion and our eternity
That ring you gave me on that day
declared our love to a long and arduous journey
during which true love has been forged
That ring you gave me, my love
I will always wear on my right hand
a token of eternal bliss
That ring you gave me
when I grew tired of the chase
I happened to find
And since the wind blows in my face
I sail with every wind
the ultimate find of my search, this ring
PHOTO: The author and her future husband Peter join hands at their engagement party.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: The day my husband popped the question totally out of the blue is a moment indelibly etched on my mind. The poem, however corny it may be deemed, describes exactly how I felt when he placed the ring on my finger. When writing this poem, I drew inspiration from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, which is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts, and from Friedrich Nietzsche, a rather incongruous combination that I hope makes sense to those who are tired of the chase but who learned to find. Based on Biblical references, it has always been the tradition of the Orthodox Church to place the wedding ring on the right hand of the couple.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sofia Kioroglou is a poet, a wife, a missionary, a pilgrim, and a perennial traveler to the Holy Land and Egypt. She likes to take her readers on an exhilarating tour of Jerusalem’s treasures through her poetry and to write articles on the delectable local fare in Jericho, near the Mount of Temptation, and her visits to Cana, where hundreds of couples renew their wedding vows at the Wedding Church. To learn more about her, visit her blog at sofiakioroglou.wordpress.com.
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Have a blooming good day from beautiful Greece!
ΣΟΦΙΑ ΚΙΟΡΟΓΛΟΥ 
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