WORD BY WORD
Word by word and the day passes,
I tell you what you want to hear…
On the other hand, your sweet voice
with which you caress me warmly and tenderly.
I love it when I forget about myself
when only you exist in my words…
You listen to me carefully, carried high
in your eyes fear, as if you are afraid.
What are you afraid of? Love or sadness,
don’t worry while I dream about you…
While my kisses take off like birds,
and I caress you in my sleep all night.
I whisper to you gently all the words I know,
with which I want to express my love…
While stardust flies through my eye,
do you feel that I love you, with my whole heart.
I get carried away and words flow,
feelings slide from my chest…
Sometimes I don’t even know what I want to say to you,
all words are sincere and close to you.
I speak more and more, I have to say everything,
because my rhymes flow from my mouth…
I don’t speak other people’s thoughts or quotes,
your name is in every word.
I will always have something to tell you
as long as you love and want to hear…
Words and unrest will often meet
letters will merge, faces will cross.
And so word by word!
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.