Nikollë Loka’s three poems


It is spring in a avenue


It is spring in a avenue,

let there be no sun!

Let it freeze, 

let a wind blow,

let the snowflakes fall upon us,

in a shelter of mimosas,

let the cold find us,

under the spell of flowers,

With lullabies let them sleep, 

let the waves that recognize us burst,

let the lightning get wet! 

Let ask us in hours our memories,

even if they don't find us!


Even if a drunkard sows thorns,

there will be flowers!

The Time doesn't stop,

when the weather breaks,

and if your steps stop

in vain, 

before a world,

to a door.

I’ve seen in the midnight 


I’ve seen in the midnight 

the mystic sky 

on the ground laying. 

Above it the starst got drunk 

with air, 

go and come 

on something hidden,

and thousands of butterflies completed 

with colours an empty space.

I’ve come down seven stairs

under seven sky shadows, 

where clouds crashed 

in the sea shore like waves. 

I’ve walked 

over on my own shadow, 

just when it came near me, 

crashed it without any hurt.

The magnet of the soul


A wave of your soul

burned with thirst,

and that flame

made the sky blue.

I'm back to rock

waiting for the next wave,

quench the passion

or him to extinguish me.

In the mirror of time

you embroidered blue,

from my rock

violet water flows,

and blue blood

that you so often mention to me,

I feel it

how to flow through the arteries.

That blueness

hidden under the skin,

drown your heart in the lake,

in seven sources

born of a stone,

my soul remembers you.

And your sky

only one cloud remained,

the magic of your eyes

a mirror.

My soul magnet

that attracts you

your soul magnet

that pushed me.



Nikollë Loka was born in Sang of Mirdita on March 25, 1960; graduated as a teacher at “Luigj Gurakuqi” University of Shkodra. 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). In addition to Albanian, his poems have been published in Italian, English, French, German, Romanian and Swedish. Invited to television and radio shows dedicated to literature. Editor and reviewer of several literary works, mainly in poetry. 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, as well as in the Encyclopedia of poets of the Italian language, published by “Aletti Editore”, Rome 2021; in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mirdita, “Emal” Publications, Tirana 2021.

Leave a comment