IBRAHIM HONJO

 

 

On The Curls Of Dawn

 

I was on the curls of dawn

the morning lolled out with the dawns of thought

words died in me,

the wanderings of the idlers awoke.

 

from the clouds, I gently emptied the rain

of snowflakes, I built the walls

behind which I rested for days,

with silences filled the vaults of rooms

in my father's house,

and the ghost begged to help me

with stolen death,

but I couldn't break.

 

Ignorance Of The Eyes

 

It is a large chain of black and white gold

sleepless days and nights.

I have been involved in it all my years.

Above me hung starred city, stellar,

the plants have grown into my strength,

and I gave it to flowers,

and no strength left.

 

Now I buried my hands, my eyes,

my soul, my lips into a new emptiness.

In a dream, flowers appear to me,

a little bigger than love - a little longer than life,

emptiness pours its message to me.

 

I float like some starry city

decorated with internal unrest,

I float beaten by lightning and storms,

I float untouched - I float defiantly.

 

Won't hope maybe turn green,

won’t dreams maybe be the reality of reality,

am I not frilly on the inside with the most ordinary,

the smallest and sweetest screams?

 

Is it lisp maybe ears of dried grass

which reap it tired hands,

or I have no hearing,

or have those eyes of mine ceased to be seen?

 

Eyes watching, but their vision is blurred,

emptiness and loneliness drink off them once upon a time,

as I wonder in this distant evening,

a little alien to myself, known to my shadow,

did this wave have to crush just me?

 

While only salt-water flows down it and foams it,

I am trying, in this blindness, emptiness makes green.

 

IBRAHIM HONJO

 

IBRAHIM HONJO is a Canadian/Bosnian poet-writer, who writes in Bosnian, and English language. He has worked as an economist, journalist, editor, marketing director, and property manager. He is currently retired and resides in Canada. Honjo is author 26 published books in Bosnian Language, (7 books in English, 3 books bilingually (in English and Bosnian language). In addition, 5 joints’ books of poems published with Serbian poets. His poems have been represented in more than 80 world anthologies, and more than 60 literary magazines. Some of Honjo’s poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Slovenian, Bahasa (Malaysia), Mongolian, Turkmen, Turkish, Russian, Bengali, Portuguese, French, Thai, Arabic, Tajik, Vietnamese, Chinese, Macedonian, Filipino, Persian and German. He received several prizes for his poetry.