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Agron Shele: Four Poems


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Angels...!


They touch the dome

majestic in their flight,

imprinted through love and blood of virgins,

may the saint envelopes everything in his chest

the father's pain,

the phosphorescent soul

and sacrifice of blood

shed to save the world.

Burning candles burn our form

the body that raised us and will take us back to the fire,

one more soul to pray,

why did he reached the end of eternity

peace that passes through the last incineration

and a recollection,

that will be missed on the road of no return.

The dome shines.

Angels are the same,

but an escape between two worlds

and a deep silence that reigns over the earth.

Angels wander

simply following the ritual of the bell ringing

to announce that nothing in this world changes,

but all remains an open gate;

amidst the darkness that surrounds like a ghost

and tenderness, which keeps us forever as an infant.



A woman


Do not expect her to walk

in the cold streets with her scarf over one shoulder

Or tap the heels on the silent memories

nor mirroring her image in the shops window

because her effulgence

is stronger then the sun

that warms the ice transforming it in to a candle, touching the marrow of the earth

breaking the myths of winter

that die at the irises and yet,

are resurrected

to embrace the light.

An image that appears at the shine of stars

and with her the wind extends the hair

to a forest where the deers are sleeping

the tracks of their hooves are printed on the snow

like a magic hidden in lightning

slaves of fate and troubled dance

towards that image

that god himself created

holiness

in the kingdom of every living breath.

Do not expect her to be weakened

because pain walks with her blood

and the blood with the feeling of eternity

like a deity

of the force that lifts gods to their feet,

the angels, everyday,

understanding the silence

of the turn of centuries

because the life is more than one attempt

that walks through the gates of the rainbow

and opens the doors of life

to the smile of a woman!



Passage


I need to see beyond the frames

And twist the contrast to make one more color

for deciphering all the views

that in a second change so abruptly

to make that colour a sea, a typhoon,

but also the peace that sleeps on the white waves

peace that rests beside an island

which, for me, Ithaca always remains

Time sleeps on the blooming lilies

whorls brightened in spring

collecting the first beams of dawn

and hiding their sight beyond the twilight

putting together the galaxy of stars.

that sparks on the cherry garden of love

to feel the distant whisper of the body

wrapped in a scarf of longing

and so the days vail is unveiled

running toward the purity of life

removing a fraction that reflects the light

and turning it to a charm that reveals the sun

weaved like this, in Gods fire

together with the lyre of the goddess of muses

at the footsteps left on the desire of words

or the thirsty longing for the traces of lips.



Is not enough ...


It's raining here,

the sky is always bronze

and the steps knock on the empty road

in thousands of feet,

without the melody of your heels,

of that timber who use to hear

as music

and the view that gave our journey distance,

not those of 100-years loneliness of Garcia

but not even love

in the cholera time (covid)

just a forgotten charm across the wind

and a journey that began

without goodbye!

I'm already used to it

with the sudden losses of the season

who run to unclothe the memory

first from alienated leaves of the green

then to the yellow,

violet and the reddish of Autumn,

but without your eyes

those bright thousands of suns

and hatch a light of life

and never I got learned;

that the next day

would wake up at the doorstep of a world

shinning and whispering of a silent forest.

Is not enough the cherry garden

nor the shadows of Moon

at the mirror of trunks of the Neruda's garden,

nor confusions,

nor the Eden that changed the flow of resemblance,

but simply a closeness

an overpass to the crazy world,

where the sad look of a woman

turned into the tear of my pain.


Translated into English by Merita Paparisto





Agron Shele was born in October 7th, 1972, in the Village of Leskaj, city of Permet, Albania. Is the author of the following literary works: The Steps of Clara (Novel), Beyond a grey curtain (Novel), Wrong Image (novel), Innocent Passage (poetry), White stones (poetry) RIME SPARSE-Il suono di due voci poetiche del Mediterraneo (Poesie di Agron Shele e Claudia Piccinno), La mia Musa (Libri di-versi in diversi libri Italy, 2020); Murmure dun autre monde (poetry), Klisania, Queen of the lake (Short story) and Ese-I and Ese-II). Agron Shele is also the coordinator of International Anthologies: Open Lane-1, Pegasiada, Open Lane-2, ATUNIS magazine (Nr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ) and Atunis Galaxy Anthology 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. He is the winner of some international literary prizes. Is a member of the Albanian Association of Writers, member of the World Writers Association, in Ohio, United States, Poetas del Mundo, WPS, Unione world Poetry and the President of the International Poetical Galaxy Atunis. He is published in many newspapers, national and international magazines, as well as published in many global anthologies: Almanac 2008, 2017; World Poetry Yearbook 2009, 2013, 2015, The Second Genesis-2013, Kibatek 2015-Italy, Metafora (Poland), Keleno-Greece, etc. Currently resides in Belgium and continues to dedicate his time and efforts in publishing literary works with universal values.

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