Ali Podrimja Poems

And the gentleman said

Should you happen to come upon
An Albanian and a wolf
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We'll go to Paris
There we shall lay our stone
Teuta, Genti will not be expecting us
The savage Roman hordes will not be expecting us
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Everything about you, your birth
And your step Lumi
My security in life
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Wandering with wolves is more than interesting
When you set off for the Forest
You discover your real face
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The star goes out with a bang
You look us in the eye and gulp
Never do you turn your back on us, Ali Podrimja
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I don't know why I long for Skopje
Now that Lumi is no longer there
And Baci Bajram no longer descends the Kaçaniku Gorge
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If a people
Have no poets
And no poetry of their own
For a National Anthology
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Should you long
to see Albanians
Go down to the train station in a big city
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Take this stone and cast it
Wherever you wish
If you wish
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It was summer
Overhead the sun
Shadows, you around Europe
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