I loved you my way, you loved me your way. We were not satisfied, the way we loved each other!
Sadije Aliti is an award-winning poetry writer from Republic of North Macedonia, Southeast European country
Sadije Aliti is a poetry writer from Tetovo, North Macedonia. She graduated at the University of Skopje, where she also received a master’s degree in literature and now she is a professor of Albanian Language and Literature. Ms. Aliti for more than three decades in the general public is known as a journalist, professor and a teacher of Albanian language, humanist and activist of the civic sector, especially in terms of the scope of women’s rights, poetry writer with 18 published titles. Sadije Aliti communicates in several languages of the world, as she has translated and published her books, such in: Slovenian, French, German, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, English, Greek, Swedish, Macedonian, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Danish, and Norwegian language. She has participated in several national and international festivals such as in: Slovenia, Turkey, Sweden, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Presevo and others, where she has been awarded in many prizes and recognitions.
VEIL
Great loves
Never wear veils
The fate of life remains
Shadow of memories
Without crown…
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WE LOVE EACH OTHER
I loved you my way
You loved me your way
We were not satisfied,
The way we loved each other!
Most important
We loved each other
How: yesterday
Today, tomorrow
We love each other…
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LOVE
Took a long time to say
I love you
Very briefly to say
I don’t love you
The sea wave takes the word
Back by the course of the river
Swinging the Swallow wings
Do not hurt the lovers
(Translated by Naser Qamili)
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Received from Angela Kosta Academic writer, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, translator, journalist