LUMO KOLLESHI

LUMO KOLLESHI

HAJK

The tars weep

Bring me a glass

To gather these tears

Someone whispered:

“The bee died”

I ran but I never found its grave.

Old clock

The hands strive to eat each other

Time remains in the eyes of the blind.

Modern hairdresser’s shop

Old heads not far in the distance

Push each other in the line for wigs.

Split ripen pomegranates

In the traffic lights of the boughs

Cold rains melt away upon them.

One night I slept with the snake

I felt terribly cold

In the morning I had become Laocoön.

House of a spider

The fly comes to deliver official well wishes

A house or a grave?

Loaded with stars

The date’s bough broke

The stones of the alley get wounded

No permissions for building in the offices of spring

The swallows

Inaugurate the illegal houses.

The bloody night

Butterflies come to die in the light

In my studio.

A beggar in the street

Called me a “Gentleman”

While in my pockets I had nothing but my soul.

At the rock spring bed

The thirst put its lips

The beautiful girls broke the ewers.

Peace often hangs the bloody shirt

At an olive bough

How many young seedlings do not grow to become old

WHEN YOU ARE ABSENT

You look for me there where I am not

I await your failure to come.

Only mountains never meet

They separate passes and gorges.

I am amazed with my heart

How does it not cease beating in solitude?

A flower blooms in the cold wind

The rainbow opens its door in the rain.

In the eclipse of the sun I search for light

And I do not know where I shall look off

You enter suddenly, and the grudges

Melt away like dew in May.

LUMO KOLLESHI

LUMO KOLLESHI: He is Born in Mertinj, Permet in January 6, 1961, he has finished his postuniversity studies for Language & Literature in some villages in the northern Albania, Puke. After the graduation he has worked as a teacher of Literature and by the time being he is a teacher in the high school “Sami Frasheri Permet“. He is the president of the writers’ Association, branch of Permet as well member  of  the Poetic Galaxy “ATUNIS” .  He is the director of the publishing house “Fjalët e Qiririt“. His poetries are publicatedin several magazines like: “Zeri i Rinise“, :“Zëri i Rinisë“,“Drita“,“Nëntori“, etc. He has publicated many volumes with poetries like: “Mars“,“The Owl confused“,“Return from the Dead“ with which he has won the first price in the competition “PEGASI“, “Pouring of Thunders“, Resignation of The Tiger“, “Perspiration of The Poet“. Soon will appear is novel: “Time without licence plate“. On March 2007 appeared the Volume with Essays and comments “From one athuor to the other“, assisting the teachers and the students of the high schools. Parts from his creative work have been published in foreign languages like Italian and Greek. He has participated in the international competition on poetry held in the city of Motola, Italy and the competition on fable held in Athems Greece, where he has been honored with the third price for fable.