DANIELA ANDONOVSKA-TRAJKOVSKA

 

DANIELA ANDONOVSKA-TRAJKOVSKA

 

Tears Of Wax

 

the thoughts with their bent heads

were crawling as they were ants

on the path tailed with black flowers and tears of wax

 

- they were helping a voice of tenderness

to climb up slowly on the stairs of Hеaven

to the song of the cherubs

TRANSLATED FROM MACEDONIAN TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY THE AUTHOR.

 

 

 

Salted Echo

 

I was walking on the edge of the salted rock,

and the empty lap under my chest

started to grow in a circle

that distances from its-own center

TRANSLATED FROM MACEDONIAN TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY THE AUTHOR.

 

 

 

Imprisoned Breathing

 

with the time’s rain drops

and a chamomile tea bag

I washed out all the pain

that lived on the lower jaw

under that street

with unripe and loud conifers rolling on its

asphalted body

 

my breathing remained imprisoned

among the iron rails

of the nameless days

TRANSLATED FROM MACEDONIAN TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY THE AUTHOR.

 

DANIELA ANDONOVSKA-TRAJKOVSKA

 

DANIELA ANDONOVSKA TRAJKOVSKA (born February 3, 1979, Bitola, North Macedonia) is poetess, scientist, editor, literary critic, doctor of pedagogy, university professor. She works at the Faculty of Education-Bitola, St. “Kliment Ohridski” University-Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia and teaches the courses:  Methodology of Teaching Language Arts, Creative Writing, Critical Literacy, Methodology of Teaching Early Reading and Writing, ect.  She is co-founder of the University Literary Club “Denicija PFBT UKLO” and also of the Center for Literature, Art, Culture, Rhetoric and Language at the Faculty of Education-Bitola. She is member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association, and The Bitola Literary Circle, and was president of the Macedonian Science Society Editorial Council (for two mandates). She is editor in chief of the literary journal “Rast” issued by the Bitola Literary Circle, and also - editor in chief of the International Journal “Contemporary Dialogues” (Macedonian Science Society), and “Literary Elements” Journal (Perun Artis), several poetry and prose books. Besides her scientific work published in many international scientific journals (over 100 articles), and one university book “Critical Literacy”, she writes poetry, prose and literary critics. She has published one prose book: “Coffee, Tea and the Red Sky” (2019), and 8 poetry books: “Word for the Word” (2014), “Poems for the Margins” (2015), “Black Dot” (2017), Footprints” (2017), “Three” (2019), “House of Contrasts” (2019), “Electronic Blood” (2019), and “Math Poetry” (2020). She has won special mention at the Nosside World Poetry Prize (UNESCO, 2011), the award for the best unpublished poem at the Macedonia Writers’ Association Festival (2018), “Krste Chachanski” prize for prose (2019), National “Karamanov” Poetry Prize for poetry 2019, Macedonian Literary Avant-garde (2020). Her poetry was published in a number of anthologies, literary magazines and journals both at home and abroad, and her works are translated into: English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Romanian, Polish, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Bengali, and Italian language. She has translated many literary works from English, Serbian and Bulgarian language into Macedonian and vise versa.