Elona Joanidhi
Kostaq Duka
The Park In Winter
Snow resting
On tree branches,
Like girls’ hair
On boys’ shoulders.
Stone Benches
Like white cradles.
Fountains,
Like the kind elderly, gentle, proud.
Walking through the park…
Lightly stroking the softness
Of the silent beauty.
The Duet
How can this happen?!
You and I have sang to love many times,
Today, in love with you, I fail to find not one word!
But the duet
That we sang long ago,
Comes between us like a white dove,
Begins cooing and embraces us in its’ wings.
Translated by Elona Joanidhi