Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
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.
An old piano
A vribation of the soul inside of you,
the words are turned into feelings,
another world is born.
In pentagrams there are foams,
rose pollen,
eternity steps and worriness.
My son in your eyes lights itself up,
seven dreams and seven wishes all together,
the untold in musical notes,
translated in songs.
The poetry written in another sky
comes in wind pentagrams,
and my old piano
put behind a door,
is gifting you music without words…
Sing that poetry
then or throw it in the fire!
Touch my soal and revive me!
A Blue Butterfly
A blue butterfly comes
and rests on the eyebrow,
without a key
and without any knocking, opens up
the door of the soul,
and measures your feeling’s depths
with the pending dawns,
when the night separates from the sun.
And you, the new moon,
with the orbit that, when it comes
and gets close,
gets burned in the invisible
flame of a world that awakens.
Only a little
bit of your breath remained
inside of me,
is enough for another world,
without the moon and the old sun.
Nikollë Loka was born in Sang, Mirdita, Albania, on March 25, 1960, and resides in Tirana. He is the author of ten poetry collections in Albanian and three in Italian (two of which are co-authored). His work is featured in the anthology “Contemporary Albanian Poetry,” published by L’Harmattan, Paris 2024.
In addition to Albanian, his poems have been published in Italian, English, French, German, Arabic, Romanian, Swedish, and Macedonian. He is the recipient of several literary awards, both in Albania and abroad. He is included in the Lexicon of Albanian Writers 1501–2001, published by Faik Konica, Pristina 2003; in the poetic anthology 33 Years of Albanian Poetry (1991-2023), published by Fiorentia, Shkodra 2023; and in the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Language Poets, Aletti Editore, Rome 2021.
