Poetry, Jasna Gugić

POETS

Where are you, Poets,

You, Wizards? 

Let us paint with our poem

This sorrowful world

And people with masks,

For behind the mask

Even eyes are lackluster

And we no longer breathe. 

Let us raise voice

And scrape the mud from our soles.

Let us raise voice

For all of those silent in their homes

And isolated,

Immersed in the misery

Of everyday boring jobs. 

Let us cloak with our imagination

This programmed world

And keep the scent of childhood

And first kisses

Alive.

Let us bring back love,

That divine joy of life.

Let us pour it over from our poems,

May it flow down the streets

Worldwide

And may it touch

Every solitary man in tears

And women wearing black.

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MY ANGEL

After all my years of hope

I'm alone in the night

under the sky purple

and I only see your star,

Angel, show me the way

and light my path I walk

not to stumble

on the sharp life stones.

As you know,

I wait for you every morning

with the blink of the sun,

to open your eyes just once more.

But my teary mornings

are full of loneliness without a spark.

Still, I’m longing for your desire

and I’m loved by your love,

infinitely through the stars,

that you play now with.

But life goes on, painful

and days go by,

and I’m pressed by years

and I’m wondering,

are they worth it without you,

cause’ without love, all the

life is a ship without a harbor,

no anchor stormed from all sides.

***

HOMELAND

By the power of love,

relax my wills

and burn the hate

in the root of ancient oaks

from my homeland

because I am not the root

lands of shame.

I do not belong

to a small tradition.

With the power of love

to silence

and be a grain of wheat

among the vast fields

of my plains.

To Be strong

in the childhood

and don't go further

of what one thinks to want.

***

SPRING

Spring is more beautiful

in the backyard of my childhood

under a cherry blossom in bloom.

Fluid and divine white,

adorned with wishes,

colorful,

dreamed in imagination

this present and untouchable love

who constantly struggles with

fear cocoon

in the depths of the soul.

***

STILLNESS

Name your stillness

as my hunch

that leaves a bitter taste

of smile,

lost in days of endless hope.

Stay in silence here in front

of my glowing love.

Name my silence

as infinity with a fear of

pain encased deep on the

bottom of the heart.

Unchain all unchangeable for

me and free my dreams

with smiling life as a gift.

***

Bio: Jasna Gugić was born in Vinkovci, Croatia. She is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; Global Ambassador of Literacy and Culture for the Asih Sasami Indonesia Global Writers, P.L.O.T.S  USA the Creative Magazine Ambassador for Croatia; and a member of Angeena International, a non-profit organization for peace, humanity, literature, poetry, and culture. She is also co-editor of the anthology, Compassion—Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets.

Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards for poetry and literature, and her work has been translated into several world languages. Her first independent collection of poetry was published in 2021, a bilingual English-Croatian edition, entitled Song of Silence. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

Many of her poems have been translated into several foreign languages and are represented in joint collections. Her poems have been published in magazines in the USA, UK, Spain, Greece, Italy, Russia, India, Syria, Denmark, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Bangladesh, Serbia, Albania, Nigeria, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Nigeria, Belgium, China, Chile, Nepal, Pakistan, Korea, etc.

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Setu, October 2023