Cover me with your beauty
Fill the cracks in my heart.
Without you
I’m a dried-up source
A standing river.
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.
FIRE OF LIFE
Cover me with your beauty
Fill the cracks in my heart.
Without you
I’m a dried-up source
A standing river.
I’m the road which
Leads to nowhere
Silent in helplessness
All alone without a splendor
Impersonal views
Staring at yesterday
Blind for tomorrow
So, don’t leave without
Turning your eyes around
Stay close
The night is descending
It’s too black and I fear
The shadows of darkness
Stay with me
Be the fire of life
That shines in me…
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SORROW
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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CHANGES
It’s too late
For your tears
And your warm words.
It’s too late
For our dreams
Because the coldness of others
Comes in a hurry
And it changes us
Even when we don’t want to.
But the time,
That we do not have enough,
Breaks us
And it destroys us,
But we still find sudden smiles
And we live
For a moment of luxury.
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DREAM
In what dream
Did I see you
And did I preserve
Your surprised gaze,
And that endless
Silence
That steals my
Dream
Every night,
And breaks my heart
And breaks my arms
And seals my lips
So that I don’t
Scream,
So that I don’t invite
You
In long
And purple nights
Full of longing.
I want to touch your hair.
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