Alisa Velaj: Two Poems

Translated from the Albanian to the English by Ukë Zenel Buçpapaj

A PRAYER 


My Lord, set the winds free from hands 

And let them swell

In hearth fires… 


My Lord, their flames waver like flags of light

Crossing no man’s borders… 


They are children fearing

The Army of Shadows…


REFLECTIONS OF ALTER EGOS 


Tome you always remained obscure, 

A trace of snow

Covering the heights no one ever climbed. 


And I, like the moon, 

Whitened with thoughts,

Keep hovering in the space filled with your light and shadow,

Failing to conquer any tower. 


Until the end, the trace of snow remained 

My reflection in the moony mirror…

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