Sunday, September 20, 2015

Alisa Velaj- Three Poems


Alisa Velaj was born in the southern port town of Vlora, Albania in 1982. She has been shortlisted for the annual international erbacce-press poetry award in June 2014. She was also shortlisted for the Aquillrelle Publishing Contest 3 in January 2015 and was the first runner up in this contest. Velaj’s full length book of poetry “A Gospel of Light” is published by Aquillrellle in June 2015Her  works have appeared in  many international magazines, including  The Journal (UK), The Dallas Review (USA), The Linnet's Wings (UK), Phenomenal Literature (New Delhi, India), The Cannon’s Mouth (UK), FourW twenty-five Anthology (Booranga Writers' Centre, Australia), Erbacce (UK), The Atherton Review (USA), Poetica (USA), Time of Singing (USA 2014 and 2015),  The French Literary Review (UK), Angry Manifesto (UK).Knot Magazine (USA),  Three And A Half Point 9 (UK), Cafe Dissensus Everyday (USA)  See Spot Run Magazine(USA), Eunoia Review(USA),   The Creative Mind (Australia)  etc.


PENINSULAS
 
I swiftly caught a bird on the shores of silence.
That rare singer refused to sing me any melody,
Be it the shortest one.
 
‘Songs let out mute echoes
In the night’s lonely islands,’
It said to me.
 
When darkness melts into sea glances,
And islands become peninsulas,
Deafness begins to sing a longing song.


SEPTEMBER
 
I loved you infinitely
Amidst sea waves and fragrant pine trees.
You spoke and spoke and spoke of pearls…


A SYMPHONY
 
I don’t want to lose you
On the this evening’s eve
When shadows tangle with trees
As if they were silhouettes of sadness.
 
It is a cold winter night
Wearing gloomy skies,
Wearing gloomy seas
And shells bring symphonies of departures
To my ears.
 
I don’t want to lose you
In this freezing December
When our white bed sheets
Have become sailing ships.
 
I don’t want to lose you.
I have lost so much
That symphonies of waves
Keep surrounding me from all sides…

translated from albanian language Ukë ZENEL BUÇPAPAJ

THESE POEMS ARE INCLUDED IN MY POETRY BOOK "A GOSPEL OF LIGHT" PUBLISHED BY AQUILLRELLE.

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