It is time to love each other,
for you to have faith in me when I say: Courage,
for me to have faith in you when you say: Courage.
Many traps you concocted for my stubborn head,
many weapons were …
Fatos Arapi’s “Homeland”
“Homeland” by Fatos Arapi (1930–2018), Albanian poet
Homeland is hurt, is hurt,
Like April with a saddened soul,
Homeland is the cross, the cross,
You hold it – and it holds you whole.
Homeland is the promised place,
You tread …
I As a Knight
1.
Once I rode
Once the horse rode me
All the way to Madrid
To Madrid, to Madrid
Up to Morelight.
In a kiosk, oh, in a kiosk
They were selling hamburgers
They were selling hamburgers
And I bought one,…
Did Bismarck support “greater Albania”?
(Excerpt from Jusuf Buxhovi’s Kosova history series)
Lexoje shqip • Read in Albanian
Overdue by a year, the Albanian League assigned Abdyl Frashëri and Mehmet Ali Vrioni to travel to European capitals to present the Albanian issue as key to …