DIMITRIS P. KRANIOTIS

Dimitris P. Kraniotis was born in 15 July 1966 in Stomio, a coastal town in central Greece.He studied at the Medical School in Thessaloniki. He lives and works as a medical doctor specialized pathologist in Larissa, Greece. He is vice-president of the Larissa Writers' and Poets' Society, the editorial director of the medical magazine "Hippocrates" and a member of the Board of Directors of the Larissa Medical Association and Larissa Medical Society . He is a member of the Hellenic Literary Society, International Society of Greek Writers, World Academy of Arts and Culture (WAAC), International Writers and Artists Association (IWA), United Poets Laureate International (UPLI), International Society of Poets (ISP), Poetry Society of America (PSA) and The Academy of American Poets. Three of his poetic collections have been published: "Traces" (poems in Greek, 1985), "Clay Faces" (poems in Greek, 1992) and "Fictitious Line" (poems in Greek, English and French, 2005). Central theme in his poetry is contemporary man, his impasse, his worries, his fears, his hopes and dreams.

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MAYBE

The cloud struggled
against the sand
underneath the rain
of no and yes,
forcefully treading
on the rationale
that obeys
the impasse of maybe.