Update on "Confessions of a Split Mind"
Tuesday, April 05, 2016 
Paul Kiritsis
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The Mystery of Give-and-Take
Sunday, January 03, 2016 Paul Kiritsis
The Mystery of Give-and-Take
And I’m always
writing, forever rewriting,
tying the rough ends
of my life together
with worn laces–
the ill-fated faces,
the forbidden places.
And I’m always
editing, forever editing
out irate segues that aren’t
compatible with
the narrative’s primary hues– ..
We're all rommmates in a house called madness: Drawing and Poem
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Paul Kiritsis
We’re all Roommates in a House Called Madness
It takes an eclipse
to make the subtle and sublime visible,
to turn everything upside-down
for a single moment.
As the light diminishes
so too do fluorescent colors
taste like Platonic solids
and letters like flavored numbers.
As the corona appears
so too do thought ..
The 2015 Antipodean Palette: Poetry as a Healing Agent
Thursday, August 06, 2015 Paul Kiritsis
As an extension of the 2015 Antipodean Palette, the Greek Australian Cultural League will host an afternoon of poetry centred about the theme of ‘poetry as a healing agent.' Seven Greek-Australian poets will entertain the audience with pieces intimately connected to the part creativity can play in self-development and healing. Accompanying them will be the special guest poet M.G. Mi ..
Work in Progress: "Confessions of a Split Mind"
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Paul Kiritsis
Below are pictures from my personal journal, a work which is swiftly evolving into my own version of Jung’s Red Book.
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Creative Expression: Poetry as a Healing Agent
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 Paul Kiritsis
Transcribing private thoughts onto paper is undoubtedly one of the most sacred art forms known to humankind. The act of putting words onto a blank slate not only presupposes a changing interpersonal dynamic between an individual and her social environment, but implicitly suggests the existence of an ongoing intrapsychic discourse of the personal self with a silent, unbeknownst audience of ..
The Persistence of Memory: Selected Poems (2004-2014) Now Available from E-Store
Thursday, August 21, 2014 Paul Kiritsis
The Persistence of Memory: Selected Poems 2004-2014 (2014) combines fifty-four poetic musings composed over the last ten years. Most of the material is hand-picked from my three poetry collections–Origin: Poems from the Crack of Dawn, Hermetica: Myths, Legends, Poems, and Fifty Confessions–and from the reflective philosophical cluster published in the New Jersey-based publicat ..
'Metamorphosis' poetry afternoon presented by Paul Kiritsis
Thursday, May 15, 2014 Paul Kiritsis
As an extension of the 2014 Antipodean Palette, the Greek Australian Cultural League will host an afternoon of poetry centred about the theme of ‘metamorphosis.' Eight Greek-Australian poets will entertain the audience with pieces intimately connected to the transformation of outer reality and inner mental life. Accompanying them will be special guest poet Judith Rodriguez for what ..
'The Time Machine' featuring David Messineo
Wednesday, August 07, 2013 Paul Kiritsis
‘The Time Machine’
Date: Friday, 9th August 2013 at 6.00pm
Venue: the Workshop Space on the Fourth Floor of The Wheeler Centre at 176 Little Lonsdale Street in Melbourne
Host: Cathy Alexopoulos and Paul Kiritsis, the President and Vice President of the Greek Australian Cultural League
Featuring: David Messineo
On Friday 9th August 2013, th ..
The Persistence of Memory: A Letter to Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Paul Kiritsis
In Philadelphia in 1731, an era most important to America’s cultural and pneumatic evolution, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) establishes the nation’s first library. Though fully operational, the library didn’t begin loaning out books until about 1774, the time period that Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was published. This letter, written in honor of this venerable ..
Singing Against the Silence: A Night of Poetry
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Paul Kiritsis
As part of the Antipodean Palette 2013, art exhibition, the Greek-Australian Cultural League will be organizing on an afternoon of bi-lingual poetic compositions in its plight to promote the written word. This program will feature select works from nine contemporary Greek-Australian poets: George Athanasiou, Monica Athanasiou, Salome Argyropoulos, Petr Malapanis, Dorothy Poulopoulos, Dean ..
2012: A Visionary Poem from 'Origin: Poems from the Crack of Dawn'
Monday, June 10, 2013 Paul Kiritsis
2012
Awakening
Slipping in and out of consciousness,
His eyelids slowly open;
Waking feels so surreal.
His body is covered in bruises;
His skin tone much darker than before.
Noxious gases fill the room,
Floating about a sea of confusion
That keeps him adrift.
Pyres dance around the room
To the s ..
The Old World: A dedication to the Cetacean Intelligence
Saturday, November 19, 2011 Paul Kiritsis
Dedicated to the whales and dolphins, the cetacean intelligence of the seas…
In a time before this
everyone spoke the same language–
The mountains, the seas, the wooded forests of the earth,
the stars the rule over our fate,
and even the zodiacal beasts
that lay entangled in its web.
Then, they were all as One;
th ..
