MIRELA LEKA XHAVA

 

 

My Homeland, I Love You!

 

 (Dedicated to my country, 46 years under the communist dictatorship)

 

 My homeland, do you know ?

 I betrayed you, before I loved you

 Like Judas I kissed Jesus

 By the barred window, lights flickered

 Out there, the sun warmed up the West…

 With scraps of musty books, I decorated the walls

 I secretly harbored « Madame Bovari»

 I cursed myself and the earth at that time

 I lit the spent candles until dawn.

 I fell so in love with the world out there

 How much I hated you, do you know?

 I broke the bars, with the wrath of the Titan

 I told you to leave, goodbye!

 I bow to you, my homeland

 With the love of a child, after a fault

 I curse dogs and keys with the whole lock

 Who kept the windows closed…

 

The Smiles

 

 I knew the smiles

 Those of the soul I have shared with myself,

 Facial expression does not matter

 When a white rose bloomed from his lips.

 I have loved smiles; I have loved them all my life

 Like the moonbeams that light up the nights,

 The most sincere ones when the eyes laugh

 Remain with me, like the joy of the Angels

 

Doves

 

 Crumbs crumble between the fingers

 In those little bits of happiness for pigeons.

 Sitting on my hands, on my arms, on my hair.

 I am filled with peaceful cooing, caressing

 For so little given, love.

 

MIRELA LEKA XHAVA

 

MIRELA LEKA XHAVA (Albanian – French) She was born in the city of Elbasan, Albania. She was passionate about literature since Childhood, being published from time to time in various magazines and newspapers. She graduated in Albanian Language and Literature at « Aleksander Xhuvani » Elbasan University. Until 2002, before immigrating to France, she worked as a librarian at the city’s University Library, where she was also a member of the League of Writers of Elbasan. Her Poems have been published in prestigious magazines and newspapers in Albania, Kosovo, England, Canada, USA, Belgium, Bangladesh, India, Tunisia, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Dominican Republic, Holland as well as in France, on French online literary sites, etc. She is active in literary salons and fairs in France, as well as contemporary literature, where she won the « Diplôme d’Honneur at the 24th Printemps des Poètes -Sartrouville France ». It has been published periodically in the literary magazine Poètes Sans Frontières « Florilège » -Dijon, in the Canadian Anthology of Literary Poetry in defense of children « Ethics and Global Education », the International Anthology of Poets for Peace – Tunisia, in the Anthology « Paris Window » volume 2/3 Poetry, in the Anthology « Confessions » India, in the Anthology of Atunis Galaxy Poetry-Belgium and was a finalist of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival-Rome 2022, In the semi-final of the competition Mili-Dueli Bosnie-Herzégovine etc. She has recently been accepted as a member of the Association of French Poets. Literary works: « I don’t want winter in my eyes » (poems) 1999, published in Albania. « Les fleurs de la rue Montesquieu » (Flowers of Montesquieu Street) – Publishing house « ADA » Tirana 2022 in (Albanian-French).  She is working on the latest books of the poetry series in France. Currently lives with her family in Bordeaux, France.