MIRELA LEKA XHAVA

 

 

 

The White Paper

 

Calm sea, nothing disturbs the silence

Nor light foam of waves

Where the seagulls dance

And sit gracefully behind the ship’s mast.

Not even ships are visible on the horizon

No fish, no fishermen!

It resembles *Courbet’s painting

The paper ship

Distant mirage

On the shore with empty eyes, I follow

The white sheet...

 

*Gustave Courbet – French painter, sculptor of

The 19th century.

 

Poetry

 

You knocked on the door of my soul,

I don’t know how you found the address,

I don’t know where you came from, or how,

But I remember speaking to you as I do to myself,

Fragile, dignified, my friend, poetry.

 

So many years passed with you and without you,

Without knowing the reasons we parted and you returned,

But I know that when I called out loud within my soul,

To my surprise, you were there beside me.

 

You knocked and entered the door of my soul,

A part of my life and my dream,

Poetry.

 

MIRELA LEKA XHAVA

 

MIRELA LEKA XHAVA: (French- albanian) She was born in the city of Elbasan, Albania.  She was passionate about literature since childhood, being published from time to time in various magazines and newspapers. She graduated in Albanian Language and Literature at "Aleksander Xhuvani" Elbasan University.  Until 2002, before immigrating to France, she worked as a librarian at the city's University Library, where she was also a member of the League of Writers of Elbasan.  Her poems have been published in prestigious magazines and newspapers in Albania, Kosovo, England, Canada, USA, Belgium, Bangladesh, India, Tunisia, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Dominican Republic, Holland as well as in France, on French online literary sites, etc.  She is active in literary salons and fairs in France, as well as contemporary literature, where she won the "Diplôme d'Honneur at the 24th Printemps des Poètes -Sartrouville France". It has been published periodically in the literary magazine Poètes Sans Frontières "Florilège" - Dijon, in the Canadian Anthology of Literary Poetry in defense of children "Ethics and Global Education", the International Anthology of Poets for Peace - Tunisia, in the Anthology "Paris Window" volume 2  Poetry, in the Anthology "Confessions" India, in the Anthology of Atunis Galaxy Poetry-Belgium and was a finalist of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival-Rome 2022, in the semi-final of the competition Mili-Dueli Bosnie-Herzégovine, Winner of the VerbumlandiArtsAps  Foreigner Award- Milano 2024 etc. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 8th Amilcare Solferini International Literary Competition 2025 Turin, Italy. She is member of the Association of French Poets from 2024. Literary works: « S’e dua dimrin në sy (I don't want winter in my eyes) Poems (Albanian) - Editions Egnatia Tirana 1999. "Les fleurs de la rue Montesquieu" (Flowers of Montesquieu Street), Poems in (Albanian-French) - Editions ADA Tirana 2022 « Udhëtar me Erën e Jugut » (Traveler with the South Wind) Poems (Albanian)- Lulu 2024« Voyageur des vents du sud » (Traveler of the South Winds) Poems - Lulu 2024 « Au-delà de soi » (Beyond yourself) Poems - Editions Maïa Paris 2025. She is working on the latest books of the poetry series in France. Currently lives with his family in Bordeaux, France.