Stay and Tonight, Two Poems by Jasna Gugić

STAY

A Poem Composed by Jasna Gugić

 

Cover me with your beauty

Fill the cracks in my heart

Without you

I’m dried up source

A standing river

I’m the road which

Leads to nowhere

Silent in helplessness

All alone without a splendour

Impersonal views

Staring at yesterday

Blind for tomorrow

So, don’t leave without

Turning your eyes around

Stay close

The night is descending

It’s too black and I fear

The shadows of darkness

Stay with me

Be the fire of life

That shines in me.

 

TONIGHT

A Poem Composed by Jasna Gugić

 

Tonight,

I could only write about you

long,

tender and incessantly,

without reason,

without blinking,

No regrets.

Just like my heart

without programs,

without schemes,

no combination.

Because you are,

of course,

gentle

and lazy,

but as if i knew everything about you

and you around,

as if it had always belonged to those

hands,

eyes,

Hugs.

Tonight,

I could only write about you

and I touch the stars

with my hands

because you gave me your shine.

 

Bio of the poet:

Jasna Gugić was born  in Vinkovci, Croatia.Jasna Gugić is the Vice-President of the Association of Artists and Writers pf the World SAPS, for public relations,Global Ambassador of Literacy and Culture for the  Asih Sasami Indonesia Global Writers, P.L.O.T.S. USA  the Creatives  Magazine  Ambassador for Croatia. She is a member of many literary associations.She is co-editor of anthology COMPASSION-Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets.The last important award with a single nomination for Croatia awarded by UHE – Hispanic World Writers’ Union – César Vallejo 2020 World Award for Cultural Excellence.

Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards for poetry and literature, translated into several world languages. Her first independent collection of  poetry was published in 2021, a bilingual English-Croatian edition, entitled “Song of silence”. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

Many of her poems have been translated into several foreign languages and are represented in joint collections. Her poems have been published in magazines in USA,Spain,Greece,Itally,Russia, India,Syria,Denmark,Brasil,Mexico,Bangladesh,Serbia,Albania, Belgium, etc.

 

Her poems are published in so many world famous print and electronic magazines, journals, websites, blogs and anthologies like Spillwords Press-USA, P.L.O.T.S. The Creative Magazine-USA, Atunis Galaxy Poetry- Albania – Belgium,Azahar Revista Poetica -Spain,Polis Magazino-Greece, Homouniversalis-Greece,A Too Powerful Word-Serbia,Magazine Humanity Russia,MagazineGhorsowar-India, Al-Arabi Today Magazine,Magazine Rainbow. Willwash.wordpress blogazine – Nigeria,   Bharat Vision -Denmark,Daily Asia Bani-Bangladesh, etc.