enesa mahmic
This is unpublished poem
SPRING LOVERS
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot
I closed my eyes listening to the beating of his heart
Blood flow, the flow of life
-Begining of Spring.
He took me to the river
And showed me a black dragonfly.
It was shining in the sun moments before its death.
He said: Let's live for today.
Let's capture all pleasure in this day
And then nothing.
***
I close my eyes, evoking the lost cities
Konya, Cappadocia, Van ...
They carried a scent of skin, brown rivers, inexpensive perfumes,
The aroma of barley filled with grain and wool,
The aroma of slaughterhouses and tearooms.
I find fragments of that scent everywhere
In Koper and Venice
In the streets of Madrid and London bridges.
However, the scent isn't exactly the same,
But
it does resemble it,
Like Tyrian winds in Tar and Fids resemble one another
The scents of spring can not be forgotten
They live within the layers of years.
Enesa Mahmić (1989) is a Bosnian travel poetess. She took part in more than 50 international events: Istanbul kitalarasi genc sairler festivali/ International poetry festival in Istanbul (Turkey 2017), Spread poetry, not fear ( Slovenia 2016), Šumski pjesnici/ Wood poets (Croatia 2015), We all made story - crative writing and drama (Latvia 2014) Graphic Facilitation (Greece 2013) , BeFem- feminist poetry (Serbia 2013), etc. She published 4 poetry collections. Her poems have been translated into English, Slovenian, Italian, Turkish and Hungarian- included in several anthologys. She recived several international awards. She is a member of PEN Center Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1. First name: Enesa
2. Family name: Mahmić
3. Nationality : Bosniak
4. Country + Year of birth: Bosnia and Herzegovina 1989.
5. City/Country where currently living: Koper, Slovenia