FOOTSTEPS OF OUR TIME

Footprints on the hot asphalt,

footsteps of our time

still stand…

In each one a piece of love

has remained forever.

I walk the paths of youth

I still hear our footsteps

and distant but loud laughter…

When love blossomed

everything smelled of sin.

The flowers on the stone weep,

the birds grow quieter,

autumn is golden in color

only we are no more.

Milka J. Šolaja, Belgrade

MILKA J. ŠOLAJA, born in Korenica, Republic of Croatia. Lives and works in Belgrade. She has been writing poetry since her high school days.

So far, she has published 11 independent poetry collections: “If I Were a Bird”, “Dreams in the Mirror”, “Between Reality and Sleep”, “Traces Will Remain”, “Black and White World”, “I Think Your Hands Are Yours”, “A Tear from Stone”, “I Was Born Alone” and two co-authored poetry collections: “I Dream with Verses” and “My Dreams Written in Verses”, published by “Kulture Snova” from Zagreb. 

The eleventh poetry collection “I Am This I Am” is in preparation for publication, as well as the autobiographical novel “Walking on the Edge”. 

She writes love, homeland, descriptive, reflective, spiritual and poetry for children.

Translated into English, Hungarian, Bengali, Spanish, Greek, Odia, Arabic…

Award-winning, represented in many anthologies, monographs, collections and magazines, both domestic and international. Some poems are composed.

Member of: Serbian Writers’ Association, Literary and Artistic Union “Vlaho Bukovac” from Split, “Culture of Dreams” from Zagreb, Institute for Children’s Literature in Belgrade.

She is also a member of several International Groups, Forums and Academies for Poetry and Literature, where she has received a large number of awards.