WORDS

“I will always love you”

we say the words,

without thinking about them…

“I will love you forever”

the echo answers, like a rhyme…

And it lasts, love does not falter,

as if competitions are important…

“I love you”, “I love you even more”

false promises are made…

Suddenly they fall silent,

both get angry,

the words remain scattered…

Full of insults, forgotten

tenderness,

words that mean little…

When the heart was on fire

because of each one said,

now we cry over them…

Time grinds them to dust

promises are forgotten,

the shine in the eyes

and long night dreams disappear.

Milka J.Šolaja

Belgrade

BIOGRAPHY

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.