Poetry from Maja Milojkovic

Light blond white woman with long hair and reading glasses wearing a floral scarf and green top.
Maja Milojkovic

LOVE AND FEAR

Love requires an open heart

Fear makes the mind tied in knots

The sword serves to cut the knots, and only the ignorant take a sword to an open heart.

They laugh in your face when they hear: I love you!

They do not see for pride, they do not see because of stubbornness,

They renounce everything while crying and attribute everything to the temptations of the Devil, Their souls have been poisoned by religions, they do not know that God is above all religions.

They write love poems that I don’t believe in,

They talk about God’s love but in fact they are wrapped like a silkworm in a cocoon

They have woven themselves and at the end they bless you and call you: Sister, God’s blessing! They use words of lies and hide behind a prayer that contradicts what they feel and by praying

They drive out sincere feelings as sin.

They do not see the golden grains sent by God to transform into golden jewelry,

They reject all that is unknown because love is the transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly,

If you kill a caterpillar you will never see a butterfly fly.

Love gives you eyes to see more clearly

Fear closes your eyes, the choice is yours,

Do you want darkness and fear or light and love?

SOUL AND SENSES

No one can see or love the soul, that which is of spiritual nature rejoices in the spiritual.

There is no longing, there is no suffering, there is nothing that we feel.

If we have feelings, it is up to us, it is not from a soul that does not speak.

With words we should express what we feel,

If we remain silent it is pride that prevents the words from being expressed.

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Maja Milojković was born in 1975 in Zaječar, Serbia.

She is a person to whom from an early age, Leonardo da Vinci’s statement “Painting is poetry that can be seen, and poetry is painting that can be heard” is circulating through the blood.

That’s why she started to use feathers and a brush and began to reveal the world and herself to them.

As a poet, she is represented in numerous domestic and foreign literary newspapers, anthologies and electronic media, and some of her poems can be found on YouTube.

Many of her poems have been translated into English, Hungarian, Bengali and Bulgarian due to the need of foreign readers.

She is the recipient of many international awards.

“Trees of Desire” is her second collection of poems in preparation, which is preceded by the book of poems “Moon Circle”.

She is a member of the International Society of Writers and Artists “Mountain Views” in Montenegro, and she also is a member of the Poetry club “Area Felix” in Serbia.