The Sadness in the Rain
Grey clouds
laden with sorrow,
in my sadness
they find their place.
Some raindrops,
thrown from an unseen hand without care,
grow old on your braid.
I see you
and release the sadness from myself,
how sorrow dissolves in water!
Two teardrops
hang from my lashes,
and make me feel like a stranger.
I’m tired of sheltering
from this killing rain,
like an unfortunate,
barren road
that sees no hope
through tears,
it neither loves
nor hates.
And I drown
in my own rain,
on your braid
soaking water.
The streams of time
blow through my mind ,
when will
they come?
Tell me.
You Are Always There
God became man,
I believed it, but I doubted,
as you grew, my son,
and seemed to me like the sky
drawing near.
They told me:
God is love.
I believed it, and I did not doubt.
I believed in you
without knowing,
with that tender,
fatherly feeling.
I believed in the threshold,
and in the soil,
in the smoke
that swells my chest,
in the breath that binds me to you,
in the name of the Son,
the hearth, and the ash!
The sky grows with the years
and drifts away...
You drift too,
you go...
But you
are always there,
You are
always there,
when you are needed.
An Old Piano
A vibration of the soul inside you,
words turned into feelings,
another world is born.
In pentagrams, there are foams,
rose pollen,
eternal steps and worry.
My son, in your eyes a light
ignites:
seven dreams and seven wishes together,
the unspoken in musical notes,
translated into songs.
Poetry written in another sky
arrives on wind-blown pentagrams,
and my old piano,
left behind a door,
gives you music without words...
Sing that poetry
or throw it into the fire!
Touch my soul and bring me to life!
Literary
biography
Nikollë Loka was born in Mirdita Albania on March 25, 1960; graduated as a
teacher at "Luigj Gurakuqi" University of Shkodra; master's
degree in pedagogy at the University of Tirana, doctorate in history of
education at the University of Tirana. He worked as a teacher,
principal in a high school and education inspector in the district of Mirdita,
then a teacher in a high school in Tirana and a lecturer at "Aleksandër
Xhuvani" University in Elbasan. Lives in Tirana. Author of ten poetic
volumes in Albanian and three poetic volumes in Italian (two of which with
co-authors); included in the anthology "La Poesie contemporaine
albanaise", "L'Hartmattan" publications, Paris 2024. In addition
to Albanian, his poems have been published in Italian, English, French, German,
Arabic, Romanian, Swedish and Mecedonian. Winner of several literary
awards in the country and abroad. Member of several national and international
literary associations. Included in the Lexicon of Albanian writers
1501-2001, editions "Faik Konica", Pristina 2003; in the poetic
anthology, 33 years of Albanian poetry (1991-2023), editions “Fiorentia”,
Shkodër 2023; in the Encyclopedia of Italian language poets, "Aletti
Editore" Rome 2021.
