Jasna Gugić

Jasna Gugić, born in Vinkovci, Croatia, is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; Global Ambassador of Literacy and Culture for the Asih Sasami Indonesia Global Writers, the Creative Magazine Ambassador for Croatia; and a member of Angeena International, a non-profit organization for peace, humanity, literature, poetry, and culture. She is also co-editor of the anthology, Compassion—Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets. The last important award with a single nomination for Croatia was awarded by UHE – Hispanic World Writers’ Union – César Vallejo 2020 World Award for Cultural Excellence. 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. Many of her poems have been translated into several foreign languages and are represented in joint collections. Her poems have been published in magazines in the USA, Spain, Greece, Italy, Russia, India, Syria, Denmark, Brazil, Mexico, Bangladesh, Serbia, Albania, Nigeria, Belgium, China, Chile, Nepal, Pakistan, Korea, Germany and etc.

FEAR

I’m standing naked

In front of my own fear.

Only him and me

In front of the mirror of life.

And I’m watching him

With wide eyes opened and

I’m asking him, is he afraid of my ego

And my crazy desire to win.

He looks silently at me, my fear,

Indifferent, without a blink of an eye

Without a heart,

And no hugs.

But now I feel like I’m prevailing,

Crossing all obstacles of self-pity,

And the curses of the evil men in black.

And I feel my big fear shrinking

As I walk on my toes,

Overrunning years of nonsense.

And I was born again

In the glare of the Universe,

Free of burdens of the life

Free to fly, somewhere where

No one can touch my wings

Of dreamer.

***

TONIGHT

Tonight,

 I could only write about

You long,

Tender and incessantly,

Without reason,

Without blinking,

No regrets.

Just like my heart

Without programs,

Without schemes,

No combination.

Because you are,

Of course,

Gentle

And lazy,

But as if I knew everything about

You and you around,

As if it had always belonged to those

Hands,

Eyes,

Hugs.

Tonight

 I could only write about

You and I touch the stars with

My hands

Because you gave me your shine.

***

SADNESS

Tell me

My sorrow,

How to rest

Of life,

Tired,

Like a jewel thief

In a dead end.

How to give

Such a poor guy

Broken hopes

Full of regrets

To make him happy.

Like in a cloud

Full of rainy sorrows

I’m painting a rainbow

Full of life’s joys.

Tell me

My sorrow.

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