Two Micropoems by Zdenka Mlinar

I Ask

The time of the coronavirus and vaccines

Confusion, pain, tears and losses...

Is there an end to this plague and affairs?

I ask while new affairs wash over us,

While the evil sowers announce new plagues.

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Wars Are the Worst

Crystal glaciers are melting,

Emerald rivers are drying up,

Mountains and the strongest cliffs are crumling...

The Earth, wounded and sad, says:

My children, wars are the worst, the worst!

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© Zdenka Mlinar

Croatia

zdenka.mlinar@gmail.com

Zdenka Mlinar (lives and works in Zagreb and Velika Gorica, CROATIA). She writes poetry, prose, and miniatures (aphorisms, haiku...). She is a member of many cultural associations and societies and has published seven independent collections of poems. She normally writes in Croatian standard, but also takes a challenge of writing in Croatian dialects. Her poetry and haiku works have been published in many international collections and journals, and in several European anthologies, while her haiku works have been included in the Anthology of Croatian Haiku Poetry in 2018. In 2019, 2020 and 2021 she was selected in the European top 100 most creative haiku authors, and ishe is a member of the world register of the Haiku Foundation. Some of her poems have been translated into Italian and English, while a dozen of them have become lyrics for music songs. She is publishing her works in electronic media and various guest appearances and round tables, and for her work, she has received many letters of appreciation, praise, acknowledgments, diplomas and medals. She is enlisted in The Lexicon of Modern Writers of Velika Gorica in 2006 and 2020.