Lasgush Poradeci

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Llazar Sotir Gusho is a 20th-century Albanian poet and writer known by the pseudonym Lasgush Poradeci. After Poradeci finished elementary school at Pogradec in 1908, he studied at a language school in Monastir, Ottoman Empire. At the beginning of WWI he returned to Pogradec, after which his father sent him to study at the Lycée Léonin in Athens. At the end of 1921 he enrolled at the Şcoala Naţională de Arte Frumoase, Bucharest, where he took paid work to subsidize his studies, and in 1922 joined Bucharest's association for the Albanian diaspora, the Albanian colony; later being elected its secretary. In the summer of 1924 the Romanian government awarded him a scholarship to attend the Faculty of Romano-German Philology of the University of Graz in Austria; he finished a doctorate there in 1933. He returned to Albania the following year to teach art at a secondary school in Tirana, this until 1944 when he became unemployed. In 1947 he briefly taught at Tirana's Institute of Science, then translated for the Naim Frashëri state-owned publishing house, retiring in 1974. Poradeci died in poverty in 1987. In 1933, Poradeci published the collection of verse, "Vallja e yjve" (The dance of the stars), and in 1937, "Ylli i zemrës" (The star of the heart). During the same period he contributed verses to the Albanian weekly newspaper Shqipëri' e re (New Albania). Other Poradeci works include "The theological excursion of Socrates", "About to", "Kamadeva", "Ballads of Muharrem" and "Reshit Collaku". Poradeci's complete works were published in 1989.)

The Best Poem Of Lasgush Poradeci

Why I Need To Love You

Because I chose to love you
And I chose to woo you
And I chose to kiss you -
That's why.

And I chose to lose you
And I chose to search for you
And I finally found you -
That's why.

Because again I loved you
And again I wooed you
And again I kissed you -
That's why.

And I lost you as a girl
And I sought you as a girl
And I found no girl -
That's why.

Because I found you as a woman
And I loved you as a woman
And I kissed you as a woman -
That's why.

Now you talk to me no more
Now you flirt with me no more
And you think I'm just a bore -
That's why.

Ah! that is why I love you
Woman-girl, that's why
You are Mystery for me -
That's why.

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