OLIVERA STANKOVSKA

 

OLIVERA STANKOVSKA

Spring Smell

 

Strange coldness caresses smiles,

new shadows are born every day,

nightmares speak in silence,

sighs sharpen their wings

of newly conceived toughs,

who long dreamed about their first flight-

powerless to taste the madness of their transformation,

they float somewhere above the past and the future

as they flow through the dark tunnel of the present,

in our suffering hearts the sorrow is spared

whose new-borns immediately float through the bloodstream,

the bridges of closeness are being torn down, instead of being strengthened,

in the corners of the room, as if under punishment,

the love and the faith shake their heads -

out of shame or sadness!?

Even the sun is ashamed of us.

Cold must!

I’m dying – I’m whispering,

but I can’t die

because the spring blossoms in my soul.

 

 

Clean Soul

 

You can breathe, in the middle,

between the past and the future,

hesitate for a long time

for the step that will save you from silence,

which travels through your thoughts

and then start over.

You can scream the silenced words,

in a moment,

to break the lump

which nestled somewhere above the chest.

And whilst memories awaken emotions

you can turn over

the words from the songs,

you can do whatever is right in your heart

and not cloud your soul.

Only the soul,

let It stay clean.

 

 

 

Immortal Soul

 

Pour the intoxicating wine

who dripping out of soul -

an inexhaustible source it's,

steal from the feelings

who trembling on the face,

tear part by part of the heart

each torn cell

new leaves behind.

Don't you know?

Exhausted but strong in the moment

I am light after all

even in darkness shines so bright,

I am life

who rises even after death,

a fertile seed in a barren land,

therefore

pour, steal and tear from this soul

to be resurrected to immortality.

 

OLIVERA STANKOVSKA

 

OLIVERA STANKOVSKA is a Macedonian poet, writer and artist. She was born on November 2, 1963 in Skopje, Republic Macedonia, and now she lives, works and creates in Kriva Palanka.  After graduating from high school she studied German language and literature at the Universiti of Philology in Skopje.  In addition to writing, she paint on porcelain and glass, and makes icons on porcelain with decoupage tehnick. She is a member of the Literary Club "KALIN" Kriva Palanka. Stankovska is an author of the poetry collections:  "DEBATING WITH LIFE" (2013) –  "Literary Lantern" award ( 2013) "IN THE GAME WITH LIFE "(2017)  -  award for best poetry book at the poetry event "POETRY GALA" Milica Paulus (2018) "THE ROAD TO GOD'S EYES - a wreath of sonnets " (2019) As an author of poetry translated into English, received the ARS Poet Award from Axlepin Publishing website - "Uniti and Diverzity in the ARTS" Filipini, Manila (2013). Part of poetic works from Stankovska were and are being published in many antologies and on various internet portals.Same of them have been translated into: English, Serbien and Arabien language. Her thoughts on life, which are the subject on her poems, she publishes them on her blog about art, culture and traditions, entitled ANIKO STYLE ( https://anikostyle.wordpress.com/) Her motto is: Art is woven into every segment of my life. sShe believes in creativity, in beautiful and inspiring things.