Five Haiku
...
Beehive deserted
with not a word
of goodbye –
cold is the
journey
...
Breadless hope,
the empty plate
shall be my
knife
...
Love is hanging
from the rope in
the backyard.
Embroidered
shirt.
...
Sleepless
from desire
desire they stitch -
needle and
thread
...
Aiming at us
snowflake
grenades.
Black and white
wounds.
************************
Пет хаику
...
Пчелино саќе
Напуштено без
збогум –
Патот е с(т)уден
...
Безлебна надеж,
празната каленица
ќе биде мој нож
...
Љубовта виси
на јажето во
дворот.
Везена риза.
...
Обессонети
од копнеж копнеж
везат -
игла и конец
...
Нишанат во нас
гранати од
снегулки .
Црно–бели рани
EMILIJA TODOROVA
EMILIJA TODOROVA is a Macedonian
Australian writer. Born in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1989 she migrated to Australia
where she has held various executive managerial and leadership positions. She
was engaged in a teaching capacity at the School of Modern Languages at
Macquarie University, Sydney, for several years. Emilija started writing and
freelancing while still living in her homeland. She was a regular contributor
to a couple of newspapers, as well as the Third Programme of Radio Skopje and
was one of the founders and Deputy Editor of a youth magazine for popular
science. Emilija has won numerous awards in Macedonia, former Yugoslavia and
Australia for poetry written in the Macedonian language, as well as awards in
Australia and in the US for poetry and other literary forms in English. For her
collection of poems Gravity Emilija received the 2022 Stojan Hristov Award at
one of the world’s largest and most reputable international poetry festivals
Struga Poetry Evenings for the best poetry book by an expat. In the same year
she was a runner-up in the prestigious Nova Makedonija short story writing
competition. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and
periodicals, and her work included in several anthologies, more recently in the
poetry almanac Frida – Women Speak (Književne vertikale, Belgrade 2023),
Redefining poetry anthology (Litterateur RW, 2023), Woman Scream, International
Poetry Anthology of Female Voices (Grito de Mujer, 2023), poetry selection
Skopje Ascents (Feniks, Skopje 2023), Nano poems for Africa (Silk Road
Literature Anthology, 2023), Senior Stories collection of short stories
(selection by the Fellowship of Australian Writers – NSW, 2022), Poems for
Skopje (Feniks, Skopje 2021) and
Contemporary Short Literary Forms (Feniks, Skopje 2021). Emilija
translates from English, Macedonian, Serbian and Bulgarian. For exceptional
achievements in her career, she has been awarded, among others, the Australian
Public Service Medal and a medal for advancing multicultural Australia.
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