AZEMINA DOKAZA KLOBODANOVIĆ

 

When The Years Pass

 

When the years pass and we grow old

hug me with your eyes

and touch me with your soul

as your newborn child!

Hugged me gently, and yet tightly

to I know that you keep me

and don't give up just like that!

 

Touch my cheek with a kiss,

and I will keep it as your trust!

Remove the curtains from your eyes,

look at me gently as you once did,

and love me like that at least sometimes.

 

Love my wrinkles and these hands

which they know to hug

even when they get older.

Still love that child in me,

just love me, love me quietly,

love me a little, because I care.

 

Love me dear, when the years pass,

heal me with your look when the pains come.

I need a hug and nothing more

your closeness and look mild

it will do much more than that

what you once could and wanted!

 

You Have No Idea

 

You have no idea how much hurts

every poet's soul hides ...

No, you don't know nor will you ever know,

because you think poetry is something

what is only read and listened to.

 

You have no idea what it's like

when you smile and tears choke you,

when sobs are heard from the soul.

What is just a verse to you

for the poet it is a proof of the suffering of all.

 

For you and many others

there is a significant poetic award,

you have no idea it's just

confirmation for a sick soul.

What you call deserved recognition

for the poet it is another proof

to have him less and less.

 

Every word in some verse

a sigh is one noteworthy,

and every poem with tears written

a piece of the poet's heart was torn off.

Poets are unhappy people

those who walk the world with sorrow

but know, they love the strongest and purest.

 

I know very well how it hurts

because I am one of those

who the verses write these and that

and thus heals the pains of soul ...

I am one of you, of those

who strongly and purely know to love.

 

 

Doubt

 

I know you wander in your mind

That you wonder day and night

Do I love you and only you

Or I'm hiding someone else in my heart.

You torture me and yourself

And days and years fly by you ...

 

Threads of doubt you roll in the ball

One, then another, then a dozen of them.

They roll in your head, collide, unravel

And create chaos

It's not easy for you, you can't figure it out

That I love only you.

 

In vain, dear, you torture yourself

You have a thousand questions in your head

No way to understand the truth right

I loved and I love only you

Discard your doubts about me

Instead of that examine yourself

Do you really love me?

 

AZEMINA DOKAZA KLOBODANOVIĆ

 

AZEMINA DOKAZA KLOBODANOVIĆ, born in 1953 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, writes prose and poetry. She published through online publishers five books of prose in Bosnian and some in English, as well as three books of poetry - "Na Zalasku", "EMOTION GALLERY: Galerija Emocija" (in bilingual form: in English-Bosnian), and "Galerija Emocija" in Bosnian. Her works have been published in many domestic and foreign joint collections, and her poems in several international poem anthologies: "Rivers of Love", "Blood on Sand", "Poets for Peace", "Candles of Hope - Anthology of a Thousand Poets'', ''European Women Poets'',... The quatrain of this author (a poem with only four lines) in the Bosnian language was published in the multilingual anthology of quatrain poems "HYPERPOEM", together with quatrain poems by more than a thousand and six hundred poets from all over the world, from as many as 90 countries and in 50 different languages. This is the first anthology of its kind in the world and is expected to enter the Guinness Book of Records! She is the recipient of many awards and thanks, especially in the field of poetry. To this author it is also assigned seven literary awards "Musa Ćazim Ćatić" for 2021, 2022 and 2023. Her short stories have been published in numerous collections in the region, and her story "WHITE MERCEDES" was published in the British magazine in June 2022, "Write Time Anthology", among the top ten stories, winning second place! Azemina is also the winner of a prestigious award: the Rabindranath Tagore International Award for 2022, which is awarded to internationally recognized authors/poets from all over the world in memory of the outstanding Indian poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore. Only twelve authors/poets received this award in 2022 outside India, and among them was this author, the only one from the countries of the former Yugoslavia.