Jasna Gugić’s two poems


Life


This life is

soaked with tears

and the words are too small

to pronounce

all life in an instant

and my love

hidden in the corners of solitude.

This life is

soaked with tears

and the pain of the past

is stronger

than the impending ecstasy

in the kiss of the night

and my escape is stronger

than the strength of your will.

This life is

soaked with tears

and the joy gets crushed

by the sorrow of the desperate

and disbelief in

a new longing.

This life is

soaked with tears

but today there is a smile

in my eyes

so don't walk away

from my smile .

Don't let the grief

to put out these embers

at least sometimes

when I forget

that this life is soaked with tears.

Disquiet


My disquiet

Born in the moment of self-pity,

Discovered in the search for luck,

When everything is too grey

Resembling the fog

Lowering

Across the plains of my homeland in the fall.

My disquiet,

Where shall you lower now in the foreign country

Where there is no fog of my homeland.


Jasna Gugić is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; She is a co-editor of the anthology, Compassion—Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets. Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards for poetry and literature, and her work has been translated into several world languages. Her first independent collection of poetry was published in 2021, a bilingual English-Croatian edition, entitled Song of Silence. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

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