ZANA COVEN

ZANA COVEN

Peace

The dream

Of many

Powerless people

Just smile of

Little ones

Against

Arrogance of

Few

Greed and selfishness

Dominate

This world

Of sorrow

Power is blind

In its

Selfishness of

Domination

Only inner peace

In humans

Can bring

The peace

We dream about

Why

It is so hard

To achieve?

Power

The eagle

And

The dove

It is hard to

Understand

The power

Always

Will win

Against

Tender

Gentleness

No children

Fear

No mother's

Tear

No burden to

Bear

Will stop

Those

Who want more

Maybe

We should

Think the way

We breath

Just understand

We all need

The same air

To live

Too Tired

Is this end of the world

Or just warning of how small

We are thinking we can all

We believed we were gods

Having under control

What we see and what

We cannot see

Changing the rules of nature

Changing the normal going of things

That not belong to us

We thought we are immortal

By changing our faces

But all we achieve is a new

Fake and artificial life

Is this the punishment

We deserved with our greed

Thinking some are better

Or we wanted to combat somebody

Making weapons that are

Smarter than us

And return to us as boomerangs

We pay with the only thing we have

Our lives sacrificed to our nonsense

Empty of goodness

Full of selfishness

Our souls, what is with our souls

I feel as I lived for centuries

Too old, too tired, too sick

Empty soul, broken in sadness

The old soul

That saw the worst, believing in the best

And living like

I am in a waiting room

Waiting for mankind

To change!

ZANA COVEN

ZANA COVEN (Zanka Zana Bošković Coven) was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia. She passed her childhood there and studied English language and literature. After graduation she moved to Belgrade to study Spanish and Italian and then moved to Italy for further studies. Apart of languages she also studied sax and later on the Academy of art Brera in Milano, artefici department. There she met a man there who later became her husband.  She worked as a translator, teacher, coordinator and supervised of cultural projects for many years. She was one of co-founder of jazz experiment group Mode and played sax and clarinet till May 2019. Hera tivities spreading from music to art, from painting to literature. As a painter she had several exhibitions around Italy and Spain but her favourite exhibition was in 2017 in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia Herzegovina, that is the origin place of her family. This exhibition she dedicated to her parents. Apart of music and painting, the third love of her is literature.she writes poetry, haiku, short stories, travel books in English, Spanish, Italian and Croatian. She wrote 4 books of poetry, " Lo dico alla luna," in italian, " Entre sol y sombra" in Spanish, “Zaboravljena u stihu" (Forgotten in a verse”) and "Jedna Ljubav" (One love”) in Croatian language. Her poetry and short stories, as well as haiku are published in many books, magazines, almanachs, blogs and her haiku are also published in Asahi Internatipnal magazine Asahi haikust. She got also a lot of international prizes among them the special  prize of Italian literature critics in Milano in May 2019, The Golden pen in Uzbekistan, first prize for haiku in European championship in Romania, the second prize for short stories in Serbia, special prizes in Dante Alighieri society in Rome and Galarate, Italy. Lately her poems were published in Portuguese literature journal and others in Mexico and Venezuela. Jer haiku and gogyoshi are published recently in Japan prestigious publications. She was profiled in a book "26 women of essence" published in Sidney, Australia and soon will be published another one " 25 women of virtue" in India. She works and lives between Italy and Spain, Milano and Barcelona.