WELL DONE! Poetry HOMELAND by Jasna Gugić

HOMELAND by Jasna Gugić

By the power of love,

relax my wills

and burn the hate

in the root of ancient oaks

from my homeland

because I am not the root

lands of shame.

I do not belong

to a small tradition.

With the power of love

to silence

and be a grain of wheat

among the vast fields

of my plains.

To Be strong

in the childhood

and don't go further

of what one thinks to want.

Jasna Gugić is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; She is a co-editor of the anthology, Compassion—Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets. Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards for poetry and literature, and her work has been translated into several world languages. Her first independent collection of poetry was published in 2021, a bilingual English-Croatian edition, entitled Song of Silence. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.