With my eyes wide shut, I was listening to
the legato of your thoughts that slides slowly
on the white and the black piano keys of life
–
I was watching you
as you were dressing the words into new skin
and observed how you were turning the paramecium of meaning
into multi-cellular organism that breathes with its own lungs
–
I was dreaming the metaphors
from which the lightnings
were learning the art of whispering as they were souls
and I was waking up over and over again
–
In the circled colors of pointillism I kept you
because I wanted you to show me,
with fast and sharp movements,
the art of writing for the moments
that no one could ever have
–
and when I wanted to admit
that you remind me of something
that I had had long time ago
your words got stuck into the bird’s throat
–
Don’t let us be nude, I cried,
don’t let us be alone
with no art of living
___
L’ARTE DI VIVERE
Con occhi apertamente chiusi, ascoltavo
la disposizione dei tuoi pensieri scorrere lentamente
sui tasti bianchi e neri del pianoforte della vita
–
Ti stavo guardando
mentre vestivi le parole con una nuova pelle
e osservavo come stavi trasformando il paramecio del significato
in un organismo multicellulare che respira con i propri polmoni
–
Sognavo le metafore
da cui i fulmini
stavano imparando l’arte di sussurrare come se fossero anime
e mi svegliavo in continuazione
–
Ti ho tenuto nei colori cerchiati del puntinismo
perché volevo che tu mi mostrassi,
con movimenti veloci e taglienti,
l’arte di scrivere per i momenti
che nessuno avrebbe mai potuto avere
–
e quando ho voluto ammettere
che tu mi ricordi qualcosa
che avevo avuto tanto tempo fa
le tue parole sono rimaste incastrate come nella gola di un uccello
–
Non lasciateci nudi, ho gridato piangendo,
non lasciateci soli
senza l’arte di vivere
DANIELA ANDONOVSKA-TRAJKOVSKA, Republic of North Macedonia
Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska (born February 3, 1979, Bitola, North Macedonia) is poetess, scientist, editor, literary critic, doctor of pedagogy, university professor. She works at the Faculty of Education-Bitola, St. “Kliment Ohridski” University-Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia and teaches the courses: Methodology of Teaching Language Arts, Creative Writing, Critical Literacy, Methodology of Teaching Early Reading and Writing, ect. She is co-founder of the University Literary Club “Denicija PFBT UKLO” and also of the Center for Literature, Art, Culture, Rhetoric and Language at the Faculty of Education-Bitola. She is member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association, and The Bitola Literary Circle, and was president of the Macedonian Science Society Editorial Council (for two mandates). She is editor in chief of the literary journal “Rast” issued by the Bitola Literary Circle, and also – editor in chief of the International Journal “Contemporary Dialogues” (Macedonian Science Society), and “Literary Elements” Journal (Perun Artis), several poetry and prose books. Besides her scientific work published in many international scientific journals (over 100 articles), and one university book “Critical Literacy”, she writes poetry, prose and literary critics. She has published one prose book: “Coffee, Tea and the Red Sky” (2019), and 8 poetry books: “Word for the Word” (2014), “Poems for the Margins” (2015), “Black Dot” (2017), Footprints” (2017), “Three” (2019), “House of Contrasts” (2019), “Electronic Blood” (2019), and “Math Poetry” (2020). She has won special mention at the Nosside World Poetry Prize (UNESCO, 2011), the award for the best unpublished poem at the Macedonia Writers’ Association Festival (2018), “Krste Chachanski” prize for prose (2019), National “Karamanov” Poetry Prize for poetry 2019, Macedonian Literary Avant-garde (2020). Her poetry was published in a number of anthologies, literary magazines and journals both at home and abroad, and her works are translated into: English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Romanian, Polish, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Bengali, and Italian language. She has translated many literary works from English, Serbian and Bulgarian language into Macedonian and vice versa.
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