JETON KELMENDI

JETON KELMENDI

YOUR FACE WITH GOLDEN EYES IS APPEARING

Today autumn can get full with the night

The moon fell in the window

The best

Verses

I will write for you

Maybe you are asleep

My best lady friend

Before you reached

Ten and ten

I sing for the verse

The word has plenty of night

The clock

Passed midnight

The sky descended on verses

And in the sparseness of the stars

Your face is appearing

With Golden Eyes

Just like in ancient times

“From that ridge I threw my eyes to you”

Tirana, November, 2004

I DREAM ABOUT HER FALLING ASLEEP WITH ME

As much as you want to

Escape from my winter

You, antisaga that doesn’t understand my spring

In you was growing the curiosity of waiting

Which scared the night

The sleep did a marvelous thing

It dreamed

For her sleep with me

Freely

Let’s say she departed

To be silenced with anxiety

Without the smallest

Worry

Water, took water from her thirst

The events descended on earth

Arrived as they were not conceived

Suddenly

With eyes they brought her towards me

ONE WORD GREW IN THE EARTH OF THE TONGUE

I spoke to my self

The broken strings of the legend

It is good

To keep them in our hands

With good thoughts

Which always stay alone

Relax once in a while near the fireplace

You have never been like today

In a blink of an eye

One word

Grew in the earth of the tongue

And grew until the sky

Laid her roots until the darkest areas

Today is taking care of tomorrow

After

Waters and entire soils

One verse of the poet

Together with his lightening

Farewell said the cold

We will meet

One day between the hills

Brussels, February 27, 2007

JETON KELMENDI

JETON KELMENDI: Poet, player, publicist, translator, publisher and a professor of university and academic. Born in the city of Peja, Kosovo (1978), Jeton Kelmendi completed elementary school in his birth place. Later he continued his studies at the University of Pristina and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass communication. He completed his graduate studies at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, specializing in International and Security Studies. He finished his second master degree in diplomacy. Kelmendi did a PhD in the “Influence of media in EU Political Security Issues”. He is professor at AAB University College. He is active member of the European Academy of Science and Arts in Salzburg Austria. For many years he has written poetry, prose, essays and short stories. He is a regular contributor to many newspapers, in Albania and abroad, writing on many cultural and political topics, especially concerning international affairs. Jeton Kelmendi became well known in Kosova, after the publication of his first book entitled: “The Century of Promises” (“Shekulli i Premtimeve”), published in 1999.  Later he published a number of other books. His poems are translated in more that twenty-seven languages and published in several international Literature Anthologies. He is the most translated Albanian Poet and well known in Europe. According to a number of literary critics, Kelmendi is the genuine representative of modern Albanian poetry. International critics and poets wrote for him a lot of article, considering him as great European poet. He is a member of many international poetry clubs and is a contributor to many literary and cultural magazines, especially in English, French and Romanian Languages. The wisdom of his work in the field of Literature is based in the attention that he pays to the poetic expression, modern exploration of the text and the depth of the message.  His Genre is focused more on love lyrics and elliptical verse intertwined with metaphors and artistic symbolism. Currently resides and works in Brussels, Belgium and in Pristina, Kosovo.