Compass
Above is Polaris And below Venus Over there the Northern wind and yonder the Southern Who’ll tell me where the Path to Love is And where the Path to Death Published with permission from the […]
Articles
The Sirens
Come, renowned man Of great Achaean fame Come Does your great heart That turned to stone in Troy Does your hardened heart This song fear Come renowned man Published with permission from the Mak Dizdar […]
Bridge
I dreamt I would someday build a bridge to the sun but of that wish remains only the foundation stone deep in my heart Translated by Anne Pennington – Published with permission from the Mak […]
Vertical and Horizontal
How shall we bury the screams deeply into the ground of oblivion So they do not reach us on these arduous paths How shall we place every cherished word and smile in these tight bags […]
Day of Rest Seventh Day
The Book of Genesis Chapter One In the beginning thou didst create the heaven and the earth And the earth was without form and void And there was darkness over the abyss And thou saidest […]
Paths
You have resolved that I shall not be and at all costs You come towards me and in your haste Laughing and weeping You sweep And destroy All before you You have resolved to destroy […]
Circe
Still she sings boisterously for a long time And we do not really know who she is or what she is And when we eat these well-baked tasty cakes That she herself prepares and serves […]
Conversation
To R. Konstantinović I wanted to listen, hear, understand the conversation between one wave and one conch But they told me Nice, but have you been listening, hearing, understanding the conversation of those who walk […]
Gorčin
Here lieth Gorčin the soldier In his own land On an alien Patrimony I lived But I summoned death Night and day I never hurt a fly I went off To be a soldier I’ve […]
A Word About Man
FIRST Enclosed within a body encased in skin You dream of heaven’s fecund return Housed in a brain imprisoned in a heart The sun you revere from this dark cave Imprisoned in flesh locked up […]
Dark Blue River
None can say where it is found We know little but ’tis known Beyond mountain, beyond valley Beyond seven, beyond eight And still sadder and still madder Over weary, over bitter Over hawthorn, over thornbush […]
Inscriptions On Bosnian Medieval Tombstones (Stecaks)
In their conciseness and formal characteristics, marginal records are comparable to inscriptions, which appear on stecaks but also church buildings, judicial chairs, mausoleums, and chastisement inscriptions. Just as authors of marginal records, whether with their […]
Blue River
Where it is none knows We know little but it’s known Beyond forest beyond valley Beyond seven beyond eight Still worse still crazier Over weary over bitter Over blackthorn over bramble Over heat over strictness […]
Calypso
I cry Because of your love that makes a slave of me Because love cannot release me You cry Translated by Keith Doubt & Luisa Lang Owen – © 2006 Keith Doubt & Luisa Lang […]
Penelope
About you have all the songs been sung and there is nothing more about you to be sung About you has everything been spoken and there could be nothing else to be said about you […]
Polyphemus
You are huge Terrible In your Immensity You are Strong Nearly a god But I am No one And nothing That is the key For you But Nevertheless You are mine I would not Be […]
Sea
On the palm of a hand a flower On the palm of a hand a shower On the palm of a hand a hailstone And you You only worry about your worry Without worry Published […]
Apple Blossom
The snows are growing ever deeper and blacker like sins In a life that is drawing near its end Will we still have eyes When in the garden the apple tree bears its first white […]
Beneath the Things
Death like a heavy shadow has escorted me for some time I would have already died gladly, beautifully, and publicly if only I could have kissed that death Translated by Keith Doubt – © 2006 […]
Lilies
In both field and mountain the white lilies have bloomed So in field and mountain the lily seems to speak In mount and dale every lily Seems to blaze And when so pensive among the […]