Poetry By Nikollë Loka : An influential Albanian poet

Nikollë Loka

You will appear to me

If You will appear to me 
like a tomorrow, 
I'll become the present 
that follows in your steps, 
I see you far 
and I miss you among rays, 
until the unlucky twilight. 
In my twilight you are a beautiful mirror,
in the darkness that blackens 
and burns, 
I still see you in the middle of the rays 
that come from another sun.
                     

Another time

You came to tell me that the word is windy
and doesn't have a form.
A promise is a game,
Because the human and the dog are the same.
You came to tell me
that the time oldenst you trickily,
and the wrinkles in your forehead
are put stealthily,
telling you love words.
It is bringing me words
from an abbys to another one,
that time stays tightly in your puls.
In the ether another time is coming.
Your time with another sun,
and another moon.
 

The magnet of the soul

A wave of your soul was burned with thirst,
and that fire made the sky blue.
I have turned into a stone that waits the other wave,
to clean off the passion
or the passion to clean me off,
In the mirror of time  you embroider the blue,
from my stone violet water dropm
and the blue blood that you mention so many times,
I feel how it dripps amongst seas.
That blueness set under the skin,
the heart drowns in the lake.
In seven sources that come from the same rock
my soul mentions you.
And your sky remained just like a cloud,
a magic of your eyes a mirror.
My magnet soul that attracts you,
your magnet soul that only pushes me.
 
Literary biography
 
Nikollë Loka was born in Mirdita on March 25, 1960; graduated as a teacher at "Luigj Gurakuqi" University of Shkodra; master's degree in pedagogy at the University of Tirana, doctorate in history of education at the University of Tirana.  He worked as a teacher, principal in a high school and education inspector in the district of Mirdita, then a teacher in a high school in Tirana and a lecturer at "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University in Elbasan. Lives in Tirana. Author of ten poetic volumes in Albanian and three poetic volumes in Italian (two of which with co-authors); included in the anthology "La Poesie contemporaine albanaise", "L'Hartmattan" publications, Paris 2024. In addition to Albanian, his poems have been published in Italian, English, French, German, Arabic, Romanian, Swedish and Mecedonian.  Winner of several literary awards in the country and abroad. Member of several national and international literary associations. Included in the Lexicon of Albanian writers 1501-2001, editions "Faik Konica", Pristina 2003; in the poetic anthology, 33 years of Albanian poetry (1991-2023), editions “Fiorentia”, Shkodër 2023; in the Encyclopedia of Italian language poets, "Aletti Editore" Rome 2021.