Valbona Ismaili Luta
Valbona Ismaili Luta is an Albanian from Kosova who was born in Prishtina. She started writing at an early age, but her first poems were published when she was a teenager. She used to write for a student newspaper, 'Bota e re', published in Prishtina. She came to London in 1993. She writes for a Kosova Albanian prestigious monthly magazine called 'Teuta', and is a correspondent for the Radio France International. Her work has been published in several anthologies: Crossing the Border; Kosova Sharing the Pain (co-edited with Jennifer Langer), Home and Away Diaspora Voices by Index on Censorship, etc. She is a member of Exiled Writers’ Ink (London).
A DRAMA
NEVER fight against life
DO NOT let the horses get lost on the paths
REMEMBER the dogs barking like mad
and the sofra* laid without bread
DO NOT open the doors to the wounds
LISTEN!
THE BLOOD will flood
A WHOLE DRAMA on a small stage.
* sofra - dinner table
The Tear-drop Of A Child
The beginning of the new,
they say, is there
perfection of everything old
Amazes everyone
just like your beauty...
They say people there
make love dining,
and bohemians enjoy wandering
up and down your boulevards.
Homelands have been betrayed
for you
by those who loved art
whilst poets,
poets, buried their lovers there.
Even those, souls
that do not breathe
were woken up by your chansons ...
But yesterday,
yesterday I had my ideal
shattered
by the imprisoned tear-drop
of a refugee child,
behind your wires...
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