Alisa Velaj
CONTRASTIVE DUALITY
Birds they are,
even when visiting
from ice.
A broken love
amid ghosts of leaves
they are.
(Translated from the Albanian by Arben P. Latifi.)
BE SILENT, MY SPEAR!
Be silent, my spear,
and watch how, over nights,
rocks become illuminating stars.
Amazing — their journey
away from the home yard...
Watch how, over days, these same stars are carried along
and dropped all around, cold and colorless.
Their sharp nose-dive to the heart of the earth
reconceives despondent, dumb suns.
Be silent, my spear;
even farther beyond silence, silent you stay,
with the mystery of illumination
as a testament!
     Durrës, June 8, 2016
Alisa Velaj has been previously shortlisted for the Erbacce-Press Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals and magazines worldwide. Her poetry collection, With No Sweat At All, will be published by Cervana Barva Press in 2019, while her other poetry collection, Dreams, is published by Cyberwit Press.
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CONTRASTIVE DUALITY
Birds they are,
even when visiting
from ice.
A broken love
amid ghosts of leaves
they are.
(Translated from the Albanian by Arben P. Latifi.)
BE SILENT, MY SPEAR!
Be silent, my spear,
and watch how, over nights,
rocks become illuminating stars.
Amazing — their journey
away from the home yard...
Watch how, over days, these same stars are carried along
and dropped all around, cold and colorless.
Their sharp nose-dive to the heart of the earth
reconceives despondent, dumb suns.
Be silent, my spear;
even farther beyond silence, silent you stay,
with the mystery of illumination
as a testament!
     Durrës, June 8, 2016
Alisa Velaj has been previously shortlisted for the Erbacce-Press Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals and magazines worldwide. Her poetry collection, With No Sweat At All, will be published by Cervana Barva Press in 2019, while her other poetry collection, Dreams, is published by Cyberwit Press.