Sunday, December 1, 2024

TANJA KUZMANOSKA

 


 

If

 

If God did not say the Word

and did not create the galaxies and the world

back then, before the time

There would only be armies of angels, light and dark

endlessly fighting with invisible spears

sometimes the good ones wining, but mostly the evil ones.

If only God on that day said to his luminous to disappear

there wouldn't be so much pain.

They say the earth is a reflection of the spiritual world

than whose pain have we been living here?

 

The Silence

 

Deep in the forest

we inhale the winter

walking step by step

enraptured by the last miracles

of the sunset, at dusk

in the sky, through the clouds.

 

The city is murmuring below

wrapped in the fog

and we...

fill the silence of the unspoken

with Frank Sinatra's verses:

"Killing me softly with her words

Killing me softly with her song..."

Thinking New Year’s wishes

we wish to be at some other place

in some other, better time.

 

Moments

 

I drag this life in moments

like the rip-open dog

its intestines on the asphalt.

No reason to go further,

each step to the end closer.

 

In moments when life

seems scarier than death,

the soul groans, and the body

muted, cries in a quiver

when you want to go, to leave,

where is the way out

in that desperate hour?

 

TANJA KUZMANOSKA

 

TANJA KUZMANOSKA is an awarded poet and translator from Macedonia. She lives and works in Skopje, as a Translator from English and Serbian to Macedonian language and vice versa, editor and proofreader. Kuzmanoska has a B.A. in Philology of Macedonian and English language and Literature, from the University sts. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski”, Skopje. Her poetry collection book Through the Fires was awarded the best debut poetry book for 2020 by the Manifestation “Lesnovski Zvona”, Kratovo. She self-published the second edition of her poetry collection book Through the Fires. Kichevo, October 2022. The photo-poetry collection book Verses and Visures was published electronically in December 2023. Tanja Kuzmanoska participates in national and international literature, drama and photography festivals, manifestations, workshops, and seminars. Her poems, spoken word poems, short - short stories, dramas, and travel stories are published in various national and international art, literature and culture magazines, collection books, e-books and e-magazines.

 


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