by Ndue Ukaj
The Freedom Of Poetry
The angels are descending slowly,
Softly
Quietly
With love
Over your fiery letters
Kissing only the pain that you know
Kissing only the love that you see
Kissing the solitude touched only by you
Caressing the Oh of the bountiful spirit
The brave poetry.
Then slowly and slowly
Caressing your stonelike tears
The wrinkled cheeks where the fatherland
Of pain has been hit with the times
Through the screaming metaphors
Screaming all night and day
Oh, quiet and scream, scream and keep quiet
In a parallel fashion,
And emerge with a Sunny smile
In the blue mornings with thickened pupils
In the black nights with frightening storms
They call you beautiful, call you a Queen
They call you many names
And you are, quiet as solitude
With noise like sadness
Bending your lifelong pain
The endless mystery, just as the creation
Where happyness and pain are hit in the mirror
And roll the soft vision through the lips
From mouth to mouth
As a rapacious bird in silence gathers
Sometimes pain and at times engulfed in happiness.
Oh lucky poetry that loves endlessly.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Ndue Ukaj (1977) is an Albanian writer, publicist, and literary critic. He was a member of several editorials literary. He has also been editor of the magazine for art, culture and society "Identity" that was published in Pristina. Ukaj is included in several anthologies of poetry, in Albanian, and other languages. He has published books of poetry, shorts story, literature criticism, essay including “Godo is not coming”, which won the national award for best book of poetry published in 2010 in Kosovo. He has also won the award for best poems in the International Poetry Festival in Macedonia. Hi won also PRIZES 2013: The International Best Poets, Translators, Critics, and Poetry Magazines, Selections of Poems, IPTRC in Chines and Creativity prizes' in Naji Naaman's Literary Prizes 2016., His poems and texts are translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, and Chinese. Ukaj is a member of the Swedish PEN., Books:, "The Biblical Discourse in the Albanian Literature", AIKD; Kosovë 2004, "The Waterfall of Metaphors", M&B, Albania, 2008, "Arka e shpëtimit", Drita, Kosovë, 2012, "Gjithmonë diçka mungon", OM, Kosovë, 2017., "Krijimi i dashurisë", përzgjedhje poetike, botuar nga Festivali Ndërkombëtar i Poezisë "Ditët e Naimit", 2017, Tetovë, "Ismail Kadare: Kryqëzime leteare dhe kulturore", Onufri, 2019, "Mbretëria e ëndrrave", Onufri, 2021, Books in English, "Ithaca of the Word", translated by Peter Tase, published by Lulu Enterprises, USA 2010, "Godo is Not Coming" translated by Peter Tase, Lulu Enterprises, USA 2010, Book in Spanish, "Godo no viene", translated by Peter Tase, Lulu Enterprises, USA, 2010.
Last updated October 06, 2011