BE SILENT, MY SPEAR!

by Alisa Velaj

Be silent, my spear,

and watch how, over nights,

rocks become illuminating stars.

Amazing – their journey

away from the home yard...

Watch how, over days, these same stars are carried along

and dropped all around, cold and colorless.

Their sharp nose-dive to the heart of the earth

reconceives despondent, dumb suns.

Be silent, my spear;

even farther beyond silence, silent you stay,

with the mystery of illumination

as a testament!

Durrës, June 8, 2016

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Alisa Velaj has been shortlisted for the Erbacce-Press Poetry Award in 2014. Her poems have appeared in more than ninety journals and magazines worldwide. Velaj's poetry collection With No Sweat At All will be published by Červená Barva Press in 2019, while another poetry collection, Dreams, was published by Cyberwit Press (summer 2019).