Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
I’ve seen in the midnight
the mystic sky on the ground laying.
Above it the starst got drunk with air,
and go and come on something hidden.
And thousands of butterflies completed
with colours an empty space.
I’ve come down seven stairs
under seven sky shadows,
where clouds crashed
in the sea shore like waves.
I’ve crashed with my foot my own shadow,
just when it came near me.
I crashed it without any hurt.
The magnet of the soul
A wave of your soul was burned with thirst,
and that fire made the sky blue.
I have turned into a stone
that waits the other wave,
to clean off the passion
or the passion to clean me off,
In the mirror of time
you embroider the blue,
from my stone,
violet water dropm
and the blue blood
that you mention so many times,
I feel how it dripps amongst seas.
That blueness set under the skin,
the heart drowns in the lake.
In seven sources
that come from the same rock
my soul mentions you.
And your sky remained
just like a cloud,
a magic of your eyes a mirror.
My magnet soul that attracts
you, your magnet
soul that only pushes me.
I know the sea is grieving
I know that the sea is grieving
in the middle of a waterlogged winter,
I feel sea fever at the end of December,
and fires that fade without making noise.
I’m afraid, it is getting cold!
I shiver from the wind that blows,
and like the sea
I don’t feel quite well,
even in the midst of June,
when the entire world refreshes itself in the water willingly,
when the waves fade in the branches of the foreign blood
and the fires burn in the eyes of a cyclops.
I know that the sea is grieving.
Nikollë Loka is author of ten poetic volumes in Albanian and three poetic volumes in Italian (two of which with co-authors); included in the anthology “La Poesie contemporaine albanaise”, “L’Hartmattan” publications, Paris 2024. In addition to Albanian, his poems have been published in Italian, English, French, German, Arabic, Romanian, Swedish and Mecedonian. Winner of several literary awards in the country and abroad. Member of several national and international literary associations. Included in the Lexicon of Albanian writers 1501-2001, editions “Faik Konica”, Pristina 2003; in the poetic anthology, 33 years of Albanian poetry (1991-2023), editions “Fiorentia”, Shkodër 2023; in the Encyclopedia of Italian language poets, “Aletti Editore” Rome 2021.
