AN OPEN AND BRAVE HEART

Abstract

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”.