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AN OPEN AND BRAVE HEART
Authors: Kiril TEMKOV
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The heart is the greatest secret of lots of strengths which man possesses. The heart is not only the muscle that shapes and drives blood, as basic liquid, in the body, but it is the center of feelings that absorbs dramatic happenings and stimulates the most noble aims and intentions of a person. The number of heartbeats and flow of the red liquid are important for the heart’s material power, but the essential flow and strength of love, as an ethical and poetic substratum of this core of emotions, are important for its emotional form. Love is not an empty, simply interpreted word. It is the most important side of life, a base for personal development and moral values. Mother Theresa, the great humanist of our time, expressed that honestly and extolling in the best way: “We cannot make great deeds, but we can make the small ones with great love”!
Such an approach towards love as a basic and the best human feeling is present in the collection of poetry “The Speech of Heart” by a young poet, Iskra Doneva, a student of Comparative and World literature. She was born in Skopje in 1983, successfully finished the secondary education in the well-known gymnasia “Korchagin” and she is almost at the end of her studies at the Faculty of Philology.
She attracts with perfection of her personality, with her culture and intellectual capacity, with her strong feelings, with life joy expressed by her smile and positive approach, her interest in spiritual values and her creative work, among which is the collection of poetry “The Speech of Heart”.
Iskra Doneva’s first collection of poetry “The Speech of Heart” (published in 2000) received excellent reviews by our well-known authors Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Spasov and the academician and poet Ante Popovski. It is a collection of Miss Doneva’s youth poems. They characterized and express the personal, aesthetic and ethical orientation of the young author. Her first verses, when she was a child, were published in children’s magazines. Actually, she wrote first poems when she learnt the alphabet and understood the meaning of the written massage. It was called “My mother”. One can make a mistake if one thinks that small children are not aware of problems and cannot express their thoughts. On the contrary, the character and basic life and ethic knowledge of a person are created at the earliest age. In this poem the young girl Iskra talks sincerely about human values – kindness, generosity and courage her mother shows towards her: “Mummy dear, mummy dear – how good you are, how courageous. Your courage, your strength leads me forward towards victory dear. You look after me, with all my problems – a smile on your face still exists. Your courage, power and worry – I'll make it up to you one day with my success, I promise mother. A bouquet of roses is a gift to you mother-only not to see your tears”.
Iskra Doneva presents her courage and positive orientation even in her first work of her spirit. It is expressed in the motto of the collection of poems with the well-known thought of Special education and rehabilitation: Luck is the only thing that multiplies when it is divided!
The collection of poetry in which Iskra speaks about the heart, is devoted with gratitude to “those who give me their love and tenderness, those who inspired me my love to be born, love that has helped me make my first steps in the world of poetry.”
Thus, Iskra Doneva connects emotional, life and creative strengths and commitments. In the second part of the collection she speaks about the most significant personal and emotional event – the first love. This love trembling is devoted to her first experience with this kind of feeling, to the excitements, personal and social shock that love provokes. The massage of these verses is touchingly clear: “Once you told me how nice it is someone to devote you a poem and here am I, my dear, from the depth of my heart I devote every verse of my poetry to you”. These poems make us, elder people, return to the age of our emotional weakening, they make young people see the reality in the deepest personal emotion for the closest person and show them how to love sincerely and tenderly.
In the third part of the collection, with sub-title “I and again I”, Doneva presents herself as an exclusively matured writer. Although young, her heart is strengthened, she does not hide herself before reality; she is aware of the problems and openly talks about them. She talks about birds, learning from them about freedom, about people helping her. She shows her noble nature with love toward her nephew, with a lovely humorous poem expressing her best wishes and love for her closest family and friends, with best wishes for people helping her when having troubles: “I sincerely wish you, always, and wherever you are, may happiness and success follow you.”
In the anthology poem “Desire” Iskra Doneva talks about reality of her condition, but also about the great human power of any person.
No one should give up and bend down one’s head before sufferings, but every one should raise oneself above the situation and find one’s life path: “And you are worth something, although you are disabled – therefore do not let anybody damage self-confidence and hope you possess, because they are essential for your life. Be brave and fight till the end, only thus you can show that you are equal with others and you do not differ from them.”
The young author goes further. She becomes an expert in world literature; she has many works before her that will enrich our culture and probably our science. She has a talent, a refined taste, built up artistic criteria indicated in her first collection of poetry. The greatest quality of her poetry arises even from her first works – her open and courageous heart, with which inspiration and strength she created her first poems.
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