THE WIND’S PORTRAIT
Colour of Northern storm
River winds portrait
Into standing trees
Man built
The other side of life and river
Between rain and field
But wind will have its say
Village’s messages
Distant mountains
Receiving flying bird
From marshes
Dreams fleeing
Village’s sad face
Losing forever the way
Leading
To the trembling of the Populars
Season of my home
Winds winding reminding
We are found againg
THE SQUARE
Our dream
That freedom lost
In war won once
Resting here
Broken spirit of victory
Smoking wood of living tree
Fire in the city
Uprising
Rushing through
Wind’s blazing window
Here rests our freedom
Forbidden
To enter our world
Dream now only
No hands reaching
Sunset shuttering
Upon our invisible jail
We return to our ruins
Where Freedom was buried
We eat it
From our poems
We will have it
The day we defeated fear
LIVING IN DREAMS
Every March
Distant human voices
Go out
The breathing gate
Illyrian life chaotic
In the stone of
God’s medium of tragedy
Impossible
Stretching rock
Reaching to Heaven
Enslaving memory
Of our times
Horrors of history
Horrors of pre-history
Illyrians
Resurrecting
Blood fires
For our free sun
Poet Mujë Buçpapaj was born in Tropoja, Albania (1962). He graduated from the branch of Albanian Language and Literature, University of Tirana (1986). Mujë Buçpapaj is a Doctor of literary sciences with a thesis on the survival of Albanian poetry during the communist censorship, defended at the Institute of Linguistics and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Albania. He is one of the founders of political pluralism and the free press in Albania (1990) and a journalist for many years in the most popular newspapers in Tirana. He is the head of the literary and cultural newspaper "Nacional", the "Nacional" Publishing House and the Studies and National Projects.
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