THE STONE | Ibrahim Honjo – Canada / Yugoslavia

Ibrahim Honjo was born on April 16, 1948 in the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Since . January 1995 he has lived in Canada

Honjo is a poet-writer, sculptor, painter, photographer who writing in his native language and  English. He worked as an economist, journalist, books and newspapers editor, marketing director and property manager. Now, he is retired

He organized many poetry events and festivals in former Yugoslavia and attended to

many poetry events and some poetry festivals in Canada, Ghana, India and Morocco

He has participated in three literary conferences

His poetry introduced in many magazines, newspapers, portals and radio stations in Yugoslavia, Canada, USA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro

Honjo is author 30 published books in Serbo-Croatian Language, (6 books in English, 3 books bilingually (in English and Serbo-Croatian language). In addition, two joints books of poems published with Serbian poets Vesna Kerecki and Tatjana Debeljacki. His poems represented in more than 40 anthologies

Some Honjo’s poems translated in Korean, Slovenian, Italian, Spanish, Bahasa (Malesia), Mongolian, Polish, Turkmen, Arabic, and German language

Honjo received several prizes for his poetry

 

They never asked me

For my name

They wanted my identity card

Or its number

I did not have one

I said Stone

They laughed

Asked me where I was from

From the stone – I said

They asked for my age

Twenty pebbles – I answered

And showed them gray spotted pebbles

They are opening their hearts to me

I am closing the doorway on the invisible wall

Which divides us

I am going away