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ivansokac
ivansokac
43/M/Belgrade (Serbia) Ivan Sokač (1975. Belgrade) is member of the Association of Serbian Writers. Prose and poetry writer, translated into several languages. By 2018, he published six books. He got won numerous awards and honors for his work.
No reward, no throne. Neither the place of honor Neither made out of the gold, nor made out of thorns. I do not need a crown... Defiant to admire me but pitiful, to follow me with fear. To devour me lives full of hunger Souls of unfortunate vagabonds. All different ones There are a lot of half-empty barrels. They stink like mold And the wine turns darker, like blood on a piece of cotton. And when leaking starts in the water spout The drops are racing one another. And their feet give them away, badly. Numb or dead below the waist.
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:25 AM UTC
CROWN
There are more blood in the fields crushed in the dust of the land and in the roots of many young sprouts. It is born with the sun the spirit of antiquity and eternal existence long time ago that I used to construct. In the fields the wind still flows and carries the voice where it is heard more. In the woods near the hummock irrelevant and empty, where streams continue to roar...
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:24 AM UTC
IN THE FIELDS
In a spiral of confusion We're spinning more and more losing ground. Trapped between birth and death we bear our thoughts well. We bow down humbly To night light brighter than the sun. We are afraid of subconscious awakening and foggy trails of mind.
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:24 AM UTC
CANDLE
I do not believe in picturesque letters on the parchment. In counting, polling and marching. I do not believe in mosaics and stained glass or in various rainbows after the storm and rain. I do not even believe in the songs of tired musicians, in the waves on the docks and in imaginary looks of melancholic cony-catchers. I only believe in pore on stone, centuries-old testimony and forgiveness after cognition.
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:24 AM UTC
CONY-CATCH
I'm looking for an excuse to hide under the sun and protect myself from cold birch trees of May. I am looking to replace a piece of bread with the entire surface of uncultivated fertile soil. Seeking a drop of water on a leaf burned by the same sun, while not catching the reflection of my image above the well.
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:23 AM UTC
REFLECTION
From stars to make you a hat, to keep you safe. No one to see you under it... Out of clouds I’ll create a velvet, to sew you a vest, when it blows and stings. To embroider it with a silver thread. Washed with the lake water. And with fairy’s tears hidden in the dark forest… The song I'll use to sing you a silver chain, and the fields will make you a bed. From dry plums a balm, to put on your wet lips, and from the root of the wild lily, to collect water, to soothe your thirsty soul. I will splice me, from your hair, like a cord threads of silk. As in my vest they once used to be. I'll take your hand, and take you to the past, far away. To see all of them who are there, So that you know there is still someone.
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:23 AM UTC
CRAFTMAN
Simple lines of star constellations Tire my night vision While the sounds of lyre still disrupt the silence of the sleepy dark valleys. Under the tree top there is outspread memory of the clumps of the furious and of the beaten paths that ingrown in weeds. Sprinkled with dust collected from dried out wells Hides the shadow of Polished silent sky.
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:22 AM UTC
SHADOW
Sequence of images on the other side of the curtain, In a semi-dark gloomy room, Is nothing but a foggy trail of memory. The past is still calling, sometimes. Maybe often… We usually encounter in the absurd. The feeling is melancholic. I tell her: I am the one you have kept from the past days. Maybe I'm a little older, more experienced, worse... When you leave the apartment, do not close the window. I have to know, when the curtain flutters in the wind that hides you, That is nothing but the proof That I am still here, when the storm strikes.
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:22 AM UTC
THE PAST
When you fall asleep, dream of ships; they always return… So does my soul return on the morn having navigated the “northern sea route”. When you fall asleep, dream of ships, because they rid you of the great anger; with it they smash the ice, and sailing on they leave it in the depths of the Mariana, where the worlds of darkness touch… When you fall asleep don’t worry where I am; I am already making your coffee, a refreshment from the voyage, and you will show me the silk nightgown that smells of cocoons, old mulberry trees and the spirits of the eastern sun. When you fall asleep always dream of ships. They return… If once they do not, don’t worry, I will wait for you at the bottom of the ocean. To be the nymph’s servant and carry her lantern where the worlds of darkness touch…
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:21 AM UTC
SHIPS
I won’t know that I’m gone, one day, when I am no longer here. But even then while you sleep I’ll place my head behind your lap, near, and whisper what you already know – “You mean the world to me, my dear.” I won’t know that I no longer exist when the sun hides behind the shade, when the day carries dreams, joy, happiness, along with some rainy cloud,… afraid. You know that it was all for us, here, and you keep it in your heart, my dear. I won’t see that teary eye of yours but I’ll know when the wind brings the news, when the audience leaves, when you are alone how to lay my breath on your lips and kiss you tear. It’s not eternity but only life, so don’t be ever sad, my dear. to my wife
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May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018 at 7:39 AM UTC
MY DEAR