Valentine’s Day, a Poem by Lan Qyqalla

Lora
embroidered Valentine’s Day
on the map of love
Egnatia-Naisus street
and in passing I also took
the honey flavor
from the hot ashes
of the estinguished fire.

Lora
like a blonde ladybug in the meteorite
nobody whispers
on the map of love
and the star twister out of exhausted longing
in the timeless feeling
brought the freshness of age
the kiss of the mountain like Hera from Olympus
departed in the endless today
night.

Lora
frozen in heat
slightly heated to the bosom of love
"I'm very cold
Lan takes me with him
tonight
I do not want flowers
a white rose
to have for Valentine’s Day! "

- Lan Qyqalla
Albanian 

Lan Qyqalla is an Albanian writer, editor-in-chief of the EliteOrfeu International Magazine, winner of several national and international literary awards, member of the Albanian-American Academy of Sciences and Arts in New York, Director of the International Poetic Festival "Poetic, Literary and Artistic Heritage in Kosovo" 17 editions and Professor at the Gymnasium in Pristina. The poet from Kosovo has published more than 67 works (poems and stories) in Albanian, Romanian, Francophone, Swedish, English, Polish, arabic, indish. Chinese, etc. Some of his poems 67, have been translated and published in several languages and in several magazines and literary portals. Lives and creates in Pristina.