Irsa Ruci- Three Poems

Silence

I.

Shshshttt... Listen to the sparrows

Knitting plans behind the wings

And ask yourself

If the words are enough

To build a city of gossips

Under the sparrow's songs...

 

II.

Come now, return from pain

That with courage you build it in days, and every day

While it tears down like sandy castles

In the nights

When you shed in tears

Freezes the hurricanes;

But enough already:

Even slavery is drunkenness!

 

III.

Spy a little on the silence

While is speaking

And tell me:

How many were killed by the despicable silence of hers

Defeating

When none of us bothered

To look for answers?

Meaning takes form only in subconscious.

 

IV.

A drop of liquor let's have today

Till the end

For the end of the two-facets

That don't know end

And let's sing together,

Sing with us

The sparrow's song...!

 

© Irsa Ruçi              (Translated by Silva Daci)

 

 

 

A man! *

 

Men will never fully understand

How weak they feel in front of love

How the strength of their pride are betrayed in that childlike

And the path of his heart, are easily lost

In purity of thoughts, through conscious exhaustions

Like the toddler who hides his lies in their smile.

 

Women will always think that they have one more sense

To feel that the light which comes from the manly chest

Is his unsaid word

Is a rocky silence

That breaks disturbed breaths of emotions,

In their eloquence appears absence, like the sight

In a mirror where the self is absent

And the reflection is the soul

Drowned in the ocean of deliriums that conquers the being.

 

They burn their wishes like cigarettes, with the grace of simplicity

And the future is asked in the fog

Wordless, lost in paths in solitude

Because a man gives love like his breath…

 

And the women put the devil in the bottle for that love

That afterwards know the angel that lies in his soul.

 

© Irsa Ruçi              (Translated by Silva Daci)

 

 

*(First published at Ashvamegh Magazine (Ashvamegh Indian Journal of English Literature), May Issue)

 

 

 

Immortality

 

Through tears we come in this world
...tears that smile to life!
We carry a bunch of them behind in that journey to eternity...
Silence is our only peaceful prayer
against time our silence is equal...

When opening our eyes
we can see how in dreams, they swing us
turning love in our motif
we close our eyes, leaving behind
The echo of our own words
permitting death to sing hymns for eternal life...

Truth is that one never dies,
only leaves... In a world with no words
his memory foreverly alive!

© Irsa Ruçi              (Translated by Silva Daci)

 

My Bio: 

Irsa Ruçi is an Albanian Writer, Speechwriter and Lecturer. She was born in Tirana (Albania), in 1990. Her books of poetry include Trokas mbi ajër (poems and essays), 2008 and Pështjellim (poetry), 2010.

She has been published in anthologies: Antologji, 2007; I kërkoj agimit vesën, 2008; Antologji poetike “Kushtuar dashurisë”, 2014; Antologji poetike “Udha”, 2014; Antologji poetike, 2014; “Malli dhe brenga nga distancat”, 2014; Antologji poetike “Qyteti”, 2014; Poeteca, 2015; and her works has appeared in a number of print and online national and international magazines, including Sling Magazine, Issue 5; Ann Arbor Review, Issue 15; Poeteca Magazine, Issue 35; Aquillrelle Anthology, 2015; Aquillrelle Anthology, 2016; Metaphor Magazine Issue 5; The Commonline Journal, Issue 4/22; A New Ulster poetry Anthology, April 2016; Best Poems Encyclopedia; Issuu April 2016; In Between Hangovers, May 2016; BLUEPEPPER, May 2016; Duane's PoeTree, May 2016; CREATIVE TALENTS UNLEASHED, 8 May 2016, Tuck Magazine, 12 May 2016; Whispers... 2016; Dead Snakes Magazine; - RANDOM POEM TREE, 13 May 2016; RANDOM POEM TREE, 16 May 2016; In Between Hangovers, 14 May 2016; In Between Hangovers, 24 May 2016; SCARLET LEAF REVIEW, May Issue; Ashvamegh Magazine (Ashvamegh Indian Journal of English Literature), The Beatnik Cowboy, 19 May; Dissident Voice, 22 May; Joomag, May 2016; Bear Creek Haiku, May Issue; Dissident Voice, 29 May; Ourpoetry Archive;Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts; All Poetry; Vscorpiozine's Blog; The Ofi Press, Issue 48; Sicklit Magazine etc.

Among many awards, she has received the first prize in poetry, in competition "Anthology 2007", as the best poet in Albania.