The experienced veteran sailors of the Merchant Marine Panagiotis Melas and Alexandros Poulos, who are both poets, are the guests of Antonis Karagiannakis in “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS – WEEKEND SHIFT” on VOICE OF GREECE.
We are talking about the new poetry collection “Child of the need for sea” by Panagiotis Melas, from where they both read us poems from the beautiful work of master Panagiotis.
They talk about personal experiences, experiences, memories and feelings from their passage all these years at sea, on motorbikes and ships.
“My first barque was in 1966 with the tanker “Albamar”, says master Panagiotis Melas, 24,000 tons of Nikos Konialidis. It was full of Greeks inside. “45 crew, all Greeks”, he stresses.
Also, master Panagiotis taks about what the sailors wrote or read; says: “The conditions were perfect for you to write and read. On long voyages, every day you saw sky and sea, so you had to do something to pass the time. The one who had a mind to think and had worries ran to the ship’s library, whether they were rich or poor. The sailor recorded his thoughts and concerns on paper, but also the thoughts and concerns of the sailor came out in the letters he sent to his family, his friends, while at the same time he waited anxiously to receive theirs”, says Panagiotis Melas.
For his part, the other poet and sailor, master Alexandros Poulos characteristically says that “our thoughts, feelings, experiences and worries were painted on paper, in texts or poems and they were very beautiful”!