SILVANA DIMITRIEVSKA

 

 

Homeland

 

Be my homeland.

To have a place to rest

when I wearily close my eyes

and dream of freedom.

To have a place where I will stop walking,

after sleepless nights of star-hunting.

To know where I can take my breath

and where my heart may can find a sanctuary.

Be my homeland.

Because, I don't have mine anymore.

They turned it into a lump of earth

and blew the wind into it to blow it away.

The birds gathered her from the dust of the earth.

I see them making a nest

upwards, towards the sky, highest in the heights.

 

Life

 

I often dream of you.

Sometimes we sit by the river

and have long, very long talks.

I’m absorbing every word of yours.

I eagerly desire to touch

every breath of the wind

that lifts your chest.

I'm getting into that rhythm.

The waves of the river are rushing.

Time stands.

Sometimes we run away.

Vast wide fields,

narrow city streets,

I hold your hand

afraid to let you go.

We run frantically non-stop,

we run away, chased by someone,

not knowing whom.

Sometimes we kiss for a long time.

Pink clouds float in the distance.

We are two moored ships

with one breath filling the sails.

The horizon is infinite.

Infinite is that blissful blueness.

I often dream of you.

In my dreams, life happens.

Awakening is a small unexpected death.

 

SILVANA DIMITRIEVSKA

 

SILVANA DIMITRIEVSKA is graduated philologist and journalist. She writes poetry, short prose, essays and haiku verses. She is the author of the anthology “Angels with five wings”, published as part of one of the most famous World Poetry Festival - Struga Poetry Evenings. For her first collection of poetry, “You, who came out of a song” she won one of the most respected national poetry awards “Aco Karamanov”. She is the winner of several awards at international poetry events in North Macedonia and beyond the borders of her country. Her poetry is published in many international anthologies. In 2023, she was declared one of the laureates of the prestigious “Naji Naaman” world prize for poetry and was declared an honorary member of the Academy of Culture of the same name in Lebanon. In 2023 she gets an honorable mention for poetry for her participation on the international poetry manifestation Letterario Internazionale Citta di Arona in Italy. Also, in 2023 she won the third prize on the international poetry manifestation “Tafil Kelmendi” in Kosovo. In 2024, she was also the winner of the third prize at the international poetry festival “Antevo slovo”. In 2024, she was also announced as one of the winners of the prestigue International Academic Award of Contemporay Literature “Lucius Anaeus Seneca” from Academy of Philosophical Arts and Sience, Italy. Her poetry is translated in many languages, as English, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Bengali, Arabic and many more.