Nehat Jahiu
Nehat Jahiu was born on 10 October 1951 in Orizare village, Likova township. He attended primary school in his village, gymnasium in Presheva and Pedagogic Higher School (Albanian Language and Literature Department) in Gjakova. He worked at the “Faik Konica” Primary School in the Sllupcan village. He began to write in primary school. Since the beginning of his work until today he wrote especially children’s poems, but also poems for adults. He also wrote journalism, literary essays, sketches, reviews and stories. He collaborated with many newspapers, magazines throughout Albania and Albanian diaspora. He is Honorary Founder for the “Karadak Echo” Writers’ Club in Kumanova and member of the Presidium, founder and member of the editorial board of the “Doruntina” journal, founder and vice president of the Writers from Likova Village, co-founder and member of the League of Albanian Writers in Macedonia, member of the Union of Albanian Writers, Artists and Creators in Sweden, member of the “Pegasi” International League of Poets, Writers and Artists in Albania, present in several anthologies in Albania and abroad.
Until now he published the following books:
1. “In your eyes” – 1982
2. “the Hearts’ Bridge” – 1985
3. “The Doves’ Flight” – 1980
4. “We Melted Longing For You” – 1993
5. “Laro Dances!” – 1994
6. “Little Owl” – 1995
7. “Open The Gate, My School!” – 1995
8. “Lyrical Epitaph” – 2000
9. “You Have Your Root In This Illyrian Land” – 2005
10 . “Confusion on the Roof” – 2005
11. “For Generations in Struggle for the Albanian School”– 2008
12. “Flori de mac pe mormânt” – 2010
13. “Orizare over the centuries” – 2010
14. “The Right Way” – 2011
15. “The Fairy and the Stone” – 2011
16. “Poems for Friend Sadulla Zendel-Daja”- 2012
17. “Grandmother’s Attic”- 2012
18. “The Sunbeam from the Window” – 2013
19. “The Butterfly Wings” – 2013
20. “The Moon Became the Bride” – 2013
21. “Birdsong” – 2013
22. “The Dawn of Freedom” – 2016
23. “Freedom Still Comes” – 2016
24. “The Albanian Son” – 2016
25. “Human Impressions for a Special Man” – 2016
26. “The Freedom Dawns” – 2016
27.”Is freedom coming”- 2016
Translated by Patrica LIDIA
COMMEMORATION OF MARTYRS OF THE NATION
I grew up on the lands
where snow and flowers dwell,
Orizare gave me hunger
In front of a poor hut.
The Albanian letter gave me
ribbon for youthful heart,
the songs about fighters gave me
the strength and solace of the blessing.
I grew up on the lands where there are
more monuments and blood then mud.
The love river flows
in my grizzled, manly chest.
The lyrics for the fighters have made
My heart mortgage, testament with words of fire
Like the ramparts that ask for
strong and experienced fighters.
They were part of our life,
our absent hunger.
They were the anagram of hearts
with songs like an ocean
No, it is not a legend
from the centuries with resurrected warriors
It was true history
which passed over days
It was the Albanian letter
which gave us the sky.
In the cemetery’s graves
there is no season, oblivion or winter.
In the upcoming spring
empurple flowers go.
In our hands are placed
collars of an unforgettable time.
Oh, I do not come from centuries,
from years, from fairy tales,
They are on our land that has
the eternal crown of Freedom
they revive in their lives
all the tracks from the ruins.
I have in my hands the deity
That shines the bright torch.