POETIC DELIGHTS BY AGRON SHELE-ALBANIA

 

1- Resurfaced Beauty

I read the eyes,

the yearning that returned with murmurs

far from any gaze

of a chaotic world

between the blind sight

and reappearing contours,

like the delirium of a pure soul unfettered and wild,

simply a tangle of disheveled hair,

a sea, longing for solace on a shore.

I had never seen a more enchanting sight than this,

nor fragility that shattered the moment,

magic that went beyond the ether,

melted into ashes,

then risen again in the fire that scorched the sky.

I took the eyes with me,

they shone brighter than an emerald,

a vast world,

a meeting of fates, drifting in parallel currents

in the contours of a board, glowing as a thousand petals

of pink roses,

and a candle weeping its flame

in the mad night, without light or flicker.

2- for Friedrich Nietzsche

The whip was cracking on the poor horse

because it lay there,

in his last agony it lay on the cobblestones

without light,

without knock

without a bridle in the wind,

simply,

with tears of sorrow that counted the years of slavery.

The only passerby hugged the horse tightly

he cried for it,

as if it were a child

the doctors of the whole world rolled their eyes

and wrote on the chart, a young madman!

The horse remained there for life

just a melodrama of the black alley

with the insidious lord who lost two cents,

and the superman who came from the years of eternity.

3- Parallel Lines

We read the palm of the hand

just as Delphi’s oracle did,

two parallel lines

and intertwining that never meet,

a map of bloodlines,

all in the sharp tips of the stars,

where a light waits to reawaken

and glow,

as it means to, with a hand raised in faith.

Fingers glide

in chords, according to the flavor of life,

somewhere a melody turns into a ballad,

and somewhere, in a melody, a sigh is sown.

Signs that must be read

in old destinies and ancient beliefs.

AUTHOR:

AGRON SHELE-ALBANIA

Agron Shele was born in October 7th, 1972, in the Village of Leskaj, city of Permet, Albania.

Is the author of the following literary works: “The Steps of Clara” (Novel), “Beyond a grey

curtain” (Novel), “Wrong Image” (Novel) , “Innocent Passage” (Poetry), Whiste stones (

poetry) RIME SPARSE -Il suono di due voci poetiche del Mediterraneo (Poesie di Agron

Shele e Claudia Piccinno), La mia Musa (“Libri di-versi in diversi libri” – Italy, 2020);

Murmure d’ un autre monde (poetry), Klisania, Queen of the lake (Short story) and “Ese-I

and Ese-II) ” . Mr. Shele is also the coordinator of International Anthologies: “Open Lane-

1,” “Pegasiada , Open Lane- 2 , ATUNIS magazine ( Nr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )” and Atunis

Galaxy Antholgy 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. He is winner of some

international literary prizes. Is a member of the Albanian Association of Writers, member of

the World Writers Association, in Ohio, United States, Poetas del Mundo, WPS, Unione

world Poetry and the President of the International Poetical Galaxy “Atunis”. He is published

in many newspapers, national and international magazines, as well as published in many

global anthologies: Almanac 2008, 2017; World Poetry Yearbook 2009, 2013, 2015, The

Second Genesis -2013, Kibatek 2015-Italy, Metafora (Poland), Keleno- Greece, etc.

Currently Resides in Belgium and continues to dedicate his time and efforts in publishing

literary works with universal values.