SILVANA DIMITRIEVSKA

 

 

THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD

Tuesday. January 3, she wakes up naked as a peach seed,

Red-haired, fragrant... with her breath she cuts my admiration,

Like water flowers float around the room

Her morning theories

That it’s not the same that I avoid her stomach

Every time we make love.

How can I explain to her that while I kiss her

From her navel,

A million little flames

Are smiling at me, restlessly waiting for the moment of fire,

And I’m just helping them to be as big as possible

When they are born.

 

ПАПОКОТ НА СВЕТОТ

 

Вторник. 3 јануари, се буди гола како семка на праска,

црвенокоса, мирисна... со својот здив го сече мојот восхит,

како водени цветови пловат низ собата

нејзините утрински теории

дека не е сеедно што и го одбегнувам стомакот

секогаш кога водиме љубов.

Како да и објаснам дека додека ја бакнувам

од нејзиниот папок ми се насмевнуваат

милион мали пламенчиња

кои немирно го чекаат мигот на огнот,

а јас само им помагам да бидат што поголеми

кога ќе се родат.

 

Water

 

Here it comes, with a black gaze

And the smell of darkness.

The darkness swallows me in its veins.

She is the drop of life that kissed the beginning.

She is the sound more powerful than silence.

I hear her gurgling through the roots of the house,

Connecting bone to bone, brick to brick,

Building and tearing down,

Flowing through the walls,

Washing the roofs when we need

A pure thought and a dream to dream.

She tells me: I have come, because you called me!

She is the handful of hope with which we knead

The bread of tomorrow.

She is the body that we immerse,

A stripped skin,

So that we may clothe ourselves in the Spirit

And stand naked before the mirror of the soul.

And I say: come, because I have called you!

Black woman, mother, lover, sister

Water that brings me back to the spring

From which I will not thirst.

 

ВОДА

 

Ете ја, доаѓа, со црн поглед

И мирис на темнина.

Ме голта мракот во нејзините дамари.

Таа е капката живот што го бакнала почетокот.

Таа е звукот помоќен од тишината.

Ја слушам жубори низ корењата на куќата,

Спојува коска врз коска, цигла врз цигла,

Гради и разградува,

 

Тече низ ѕидовите,

Ги измива покривите кога ни е потребна

Чиста мисла и сон за сонување.

Ми вели: дојдов, оти ти ме повика!

Таа е грстот надеж со кој го замесуваме

Лебот на утрешнината.

Таа е телото што го потопуваме,

Соблечена кожа,

За да се облечеме во Духот

И да застанеме голи пред огледалото на душата.

И велам: дојди, оти јас те повикав!

Црна жено, мајко, љубовнице, сестро

Водо што ме враќаш на изворот

Од кој нема да ожеднам.

 

SILVANA DIMITRIEVSKA

 

SILVANA DIMITRIEVSKA was born in 1981. in Skopje. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology'Blaze Koneski' - Skopje at the Department of General and Comparative Literature in the Macedonian language, and later she also completed the One-Year School for Journalists at MIM (Macedonian Media Institute). She was the coordinator of the literary circle 'Mugri' and the editor of the poetry almanac of the same name. She is the organizer of several poetry readings and promotions. Silvana writes poetry, short prose, essays and haiku verses published in the first Macedonian haiku magazine Mravka. She is the author of the anthology Angels with five wings, published as part of Struga evenings of poetry. He appears as a reviewer of several collections of poetry by young, but also by already renowned authors. She is the winner of the second and third 'Blaze Koneski' prize for a scientific essay. For her first collection of poetry, “You, who came out of a song”, she won the prestigious national award 'Atso Karamanov'. For her short story 'Butterfly Skirt' she won the first prize at the national competition 'I tell a photo 2021'. She is the winner of the third prize at the international poetry festival 'Vigil of Kokinski Mugri 2022' and the second prize at the same poetry festival for 2023. In 2023, she won the second prize at the international poetry festival for children's poetry 'Stihuvalki'. In 2023, at the international poetry festival 'Literary Sparks 2023', she was also the winner of the second prize, and at the same poetry festival in 2024, she was again the winner of the second prize. In 2023, she was declared one of the laureates of the prestigious 'Naji Naaman' world prize for poetry and was awarded the title of honorary member of the Academy of Culture of the same name in Lebanon. In 2023, she won the third prize for poetry at the international poetry festival 'Tafil Kelmendi' in Kosovo. In 2024, she was also the winner of the third prize at the international poetry festival 'Antevo slovo'. In 2004 and 2005 she was announced as one of the winners of the prestigue International Academic Award of Contemporay Literature “Lucius Anaeus Seneca” from Academy of Philosophical Arts and Sience, Italy. In 2005 for the second time, she won third place at the international poetry festival “Antevo slovo”. Her poetry is published and translated on more than ten languages. In 2025 she published her second poetry book “The night when I'm silent”.