The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
Visar Zhiti
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Innocent droplets of rain Make almost all events Quite natural. (from "A Rainy Day")”
“Only with a leaf can I talk of the forest,”
“It rains And rains And rains. But there is a sky above the rain, Nothing can rot the sky. Earth has turned to mud. What of it? The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun. (from "A Rainy Day")”
“Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom.”
“SECOND SUN So much blood Has been spent in this world, But we have not yet built a sun of blood. Listen, my friend, To these trembling words: A second sun will be born of our blood in the form of a heart.”
“ABYSS Our country lives Among the dead And dies among the living Sometimes.”
“SOWING LIGHTNING Seize Bolts of lightning from the sky And plant them in fields of life. They will grow like tender sprouts of fire. Charge somber thoughts With unexpected flash, You, my lightning in the soil!”
“Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones. (from "Gratitude")”
“THE CURSE May they never Return home at night... May you have no part of eventide, May you have no room of your own, Nor road, nor return. May your days be all exactly the same, Five Fridays in a row, Always an unlucky Tuesday, No Sunday, May you have no more little worries, Tears or inspiration, For you yourself are the greatest worry on earth: Prisoner!”
“The forest has shrunk And fear has expanded, The forests have dwindled, There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning, less beauty and the moon lies bare, deflowered by force and then abandoned.”
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