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Saša D Lović Sep 2014
1

gledao je dugo svoju sen
zakrvavljenim očima
  grlo mu se grčilo

sekiru sa zida da ponese
u šumu
  šta bi drugo

inače često dovodi sebe
u takvu situaciju
  ne zbog nečeg patološkog

ne zbog neke skrivene želje
već zbog šume
  ona je i ovog puta kriva

usne su mu drhtale
šumom odzvanjao njegov dah
  drveće počelo da vrišti

suze cerove kvasile humus
no to ga ovog puta ne pokoleba
  ovog puta otići će mnogo dalje

na sekiru pade zrak
i ona umi njegovo telo
  svojim sjajem


2

mala fide
dim se vije mehovi nadimaju
  čekići biju

znojavi kovači brkove suku
piju vodu metal stenje
  pod serijom teških udaraca

crveni se još nerođena sekira
u agoniji nastajanja
  sijaju se oštri zub i uvo tupo

pa je utom zgrabiše klešta
sve zaneme
  sve sačeka prvi vrisak

susret sa vodom
mala fide
  šta avaj nastade


3

u početku beše raka
i on je plesao oko nje
  poslednji ples

uma atrofičnog
udovi mu leteli sekli etar
  bale kvasila mu lice

očiju zakrvavljenih
ni glasa da pusti
  zmije su stenjale upregnute

niz amove otrov se slivao
raka poče da biva jezero
  drveće spustilo grane

i sve više grdilo mu lice
o boli
  ples je bivao sve sporiji

ptice su sve tiše rikale
iz tame poče da se rađa tama
  grđa i crnja

muve su naokolo zujale
drveće počelo da vrišti
  suze cerove kvasile humus


4

i kako je plakala sekira
naišavši na kamen
  vatrene suze prštale naokolo

kamen se vrteo kamen je jeo
vatrene suze
  i zub oštriji postajaše

svetlost njena poče da izjeda tamu
grđu i crnju
  od one pređašnje

pade zrak na nagrđeno lice
i stade sa plesom
  zmijama skide jaram

umi udove svoje u jezeru
urlik zapara galamu oko njega
  i nastade tišina tišina tišina

kezio se njegov lik
sa mirne površine
  progledao je


5

u početku beše i šuma
prašuma beskrajna
  u umu njegovom atrofičnom

i u njoj on i ona u njemu
podjednako
  plakao on plakala i šuma

jeli jedno drugo
grlo mu se grčilo
  udovi sušili crni dani behu

anđeli su sletali
kljucali mu oči
  koje su bile voda

donosili vatru u prašumu
da sagori um njegov atrofični
  vatra se gasila

donosili i vodu vodu mutnu vodu bistru
belu crvenu zelenu bilo kakvu
  voda se gasila


6

išla je sekira iz ruke u ruku
brzo i sigurno
  kroz vatru kroz vodu

padale glave
padalo drveće
  zub oštriji uvo tuplje držalje crnje

od krvi od zemlje
sekira je kružila
  tog su dana žene crno mleko muzle

ah nesreće
ptice su sve divlje rikale
  muve su zujale

pauci se razmrežaše
između prstiju njegovih
  ključala je lava u grudima šume

kezio se njegov lik
sa mirne površine
  jezera


7

sa rukom stopila se sekira
skameni se dah pogled znoj
  kidao je dronjke od odeće

bale kvasila mu lice
konji su bili nemirni
  anđeoskim hučanjem šuma ga zvala

lišće je padalo sa drveća
magla proždirala etar
  ptice behu odletele

rožnjače mu se zabrazdiše
srce poče da kuca
  sekira urliče

anđeli behu odleteli
samo su muve zujale
  on penio

šuma hučala
jezero ključalo
  tišina


8

na kraju beše svetlost
prasvetlost beskrajna
  u umu njegovom atrofičnom

i u njoj on i ona u njemu
podjednako
  smejao se on smejala se i svetlost

jeli jedno drugo
grlo mu se širilo
  udovi listali crni dani behu prošli

demoni su izranjali
kljucali oči
  koje su bile vatra

donosili gmazove u svetlost
da opogane um atrofični
  gmazovi se sušili

donosili pegaze sa rogom
bele crvrne zelene bilo kakve
  krila im otpadala


9

stajali bi sekira i on stopljeni
u agoniji
  svetlost zaslepi oko njegovo

iz rožnjače kapala je lava
tuga poče da izjeda svetlost
  grđu i crnju od pređašnje

zub tuplji uvo oštrije držalje istrošeno
pade tren na nagrđeno lice
  i poče sa plesom

zmijama jaram na vrat
kezilo se njegovo lice sa dna rake
  progledao je


10

granulo je sunce i nesta svetlosti
zmije su strašno siktale
  upregnute

gledale kako se otrov iz jezera
pretvara u oblak
  oblak zakri sunce

i njegov um atrofični
udovi mu leteli
  pogađali ptice

muve su zujale
očiju zakrvavljenih
  pusti glas planine su se tresle

vetar poče da duva
umrsi mu kosu koža mu se ospe
  iz tabana poče korenje da niče


11

sva se magla upi u njega
on spusti sekiru u raku
  u raku doteče lava

i ne bi više zuba oštrog uva tupog
šume prašume svetlosti prasvetlosti
  jednostavno ne bi

na kraju beše
on
  u agoniji

postojao je
Irena Adler Nov 2018
I tekla je krv
Tekla li je tekla,
Na sve strane!

Tuzno bese to vreme
Kad se lasta zaljubi u gavrana
I slomi svoje rame
ruke
Grehe I
SVE
Grane.
Saša D Lović Apr 2015
… i ugledah na ulici mrtvu pticu.
Pogledala me je u oči
i zaiskala vode.
Razmislio sam malo
i napojio je svojom dušom,
koja je voda.
Zahvalila mi je,
mrtva
i nastavila da cvrkuće….
Mateuš Conrad Oct 2017
i've already transgressed the applicable diacritical
markings, i've already hidden the
slavic "grapheme": sz in š -
    (in english that's a sz with a H - a sheep).
         language has to first become
mandible - "erroneous" -
                    it has to be bribed, it has to be
changed, it has to evolve into something else -
  and that's how it happens -
           matthew, matthias, mateusz, mateuš -
i can hardly claim self-love:
                                           but i adore my name;
i'm actually fascinated with names -
       whoever calls their daughter peaches is
to me: unimaginative.
                         i abide by no school-rubric
strictness of what ought to be diacritically
         acceptable -
             i transcend this base of implication -
and some words from the native tongue -
  kawa (kava) - coffee -
     cukier - sugar -
         mleko - milk
       woda (voda) - water
            wódka (vódka) - ***** -
           when - łen -
            łamanie - wama'nie - the breaking -
   orzech laskowy - hazelnut -
   again the graphemes rz (ż) and ch (H) -
              and that's truly an orthographic
statement.
                    
   scales of a dragon, tooth of a wolf:
witches' mummy; maw, and gulf,
        of the ravined salt-sea shark;
root of hemlock, digged in the dark;
liver of a blaspheming jew;
gall of goat, and slips of yew,
      slivered in the moon's eclipse;
nose of a turk, and tartar's lips;
   finger of a birth-strangled babe,
   ditch delivered by a drab,
                   make the gruel thick and slab:
add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
for the ingredients of our cauldron.


  as ever, macbeth and the three years
in edinburgh bribe my thoughts concerning
the first time atop arthur's seat -
   a city that's also the perfect compass -
overlooking the firth of forth -
     i knew exactly when looking
to the east, when exactly looking to
the north, and west, and south.

      besides the already said -
manhattan boils, and i'm simply bored -
  it's has becoming a boredom expecting
what's to be expected -
                 that's the problem with terror -
it no longer dreams big, the unexpected
has already become the expected -
    terrorism has become normalised -
   when it was al qa qa ida -
  has become no no norman -
     who the hell names their son: norman?!

ah, only 8 dead, that's nothing,
                 i'm just tired of the tirade -
should it, or shouldn't it come along...
              beside "being" defeatist -
             it's just the plain sight boredom of
the said narrative -
                   who will tire first is the only
question i have to ask,
  but never will ask...
       it's simply tiresome to defend the "good"
muslims...
            **** it, throw the whole lot of them
into the same bucket and start shooting
the same fish in a single barrel...
                          some people believe
that authentic plagiarism is an artform per se,
this is true:
  plagiarism isn't easy,
   i wrote one sociology essay by plagiarising
at university, i did it,
   because i wanted to check whether the computer
program in effect could actually detect
a plagiarism... funny... it didn't...
i got a first by carefully utilising a thesaurus...
it could have been a reverse result
                 of kasparov vs. deep blue...
but this isn't a case of plagiarising
   the berlin attack -
              the kaiser wilhelm memorial
    church at breitscheidplatz -
       you become tired of the excuses -
      after a while you are given the opportunity
to finally cut the throbbing membrane mark -
there is and there will be the distinction
we're entrenched in the: us and the them...
      added the fact that i don't agree
on the crux banality of history -
   historiology is nonsense to me -
     the anglophone is over-stretched with what
it "accounts" for as "genuine" history -
      big bag, dinosaurs, cavemen, monkeys...
stretch armstrong or what?!
                           i prefer the much simpler
view of history, namely, that i have already planned
a shortening -
  whereby historiology is replaced by
   etymology...
                         hence the interlude of native
words:
            chrapać - snore -
                   sen - dream -
          śnić - to dream -
                                  kaszel - cough -
and the debate between
        kasłać and kaszłać -
                        or the readied laziness
with a grapheme - agrippa -
              chequers and cappuccino -
grapheme assured - not roman siamese -
                    but nonetheless graphemes...
once more: the fluidity of language -
   one again: not all rules are made to be left
orthographically unbroken,
      ask a silesian about his mongrel
                     germano-pollack tongue -
                                           or the kashubian;
perhaps the rules of the orthodox tongue
rigid and schooled remain in a vault
in warsaw, but outside of warsaw:
                   the tongue is no iron -
            the tongue is clay,
                 and moulded in the image of
    the one wielding it, to his desire:
            lingua est non ferrum -
        lingua est lutum -
                        ludere deus /
                     das zunge ist nicht eisen -
     das zunge ist lehm -
                                           spielen gott.
Do cilja u zivotu dolazimo iz dva puta, jednom kada ga zamislimo i jednom kada ga ostvarimo.

--
Na spratu se nalaze dve sobe za spavanje, jedna je bolja od druge.

Dole je omanje ogradjeno dvoriste sa lozom iz kog se ulazi u vecu trpezariju sa kuhinjom i kupatilom.

Na ostrvu se voda skuplja od kisnice u "bazene" i koristi za toalet , tusiranje, pranje sudova, a za ostale potrebe se kupuje.

Jedna od prodavnica je kod tornja, a apartman je druga ulicica od tornja, desno od zapustenog teniskog igralista od koga je levo policijska stanica.

Hrana je skuplja nego u Zadru.

Od ukupno 5-6 restorana jedan sam isprobala jednom, bilo je ok ali mrsavo, verujem da su ostali bolji, zapravo verujem da se rano ujutro moze naci sveza riba kod ribara.

Sve u svemu nije fancy ali ima dusu za onog kome dusa treba.

*mh
Mateuš Conrad Jan 2020
.it's almost akin to the germans, having experienced, discovered thought... strange, though, they "learned" to think, but were able, to write, prior. isn't that strange? they were made, illuminated by the sight, prior to hearing the runes, of, the, squabbling, ruined! ruined: rune bound. have the germans, ever thought? i gather: they never have; sie noch nie haben...

why wouldn't i believe in the existence
of the gods,
when i see so many people,
borrow, traits from them?
                        Loki:
             e.g. agent provocateur...
who am i to think of?
      to pledge allegiance to?
if ever: the death of god,
then the rebirth: of the gods.
         i would believe in the death of
gods, if i didn't see
iconoclasm of the mundane whipe
and whiff presence of my fellow
mortals...
                  fame and a god-riddled
status-presence...
        with my own,
                    augen zu sehen!
moimi okami: widzieć -
     oczem: niet oko...
                      not eye...
   oczem:
                        paraphrasing...
oczem: with an eye
  (oczyma - using eyes)
via                         o czym:
about what?
                czyn: deed.
                      
can't people even understand
personification in form?!
does it always require a conjuring
of some quasi-fictive altruism?

         no wonder i can't solve a single
kreuzwortpuzzle...
              the polacks,
and their perpetual noun
                   crisis...
                     kommen sie
von ein sprache
           das schwer leiht...
                woda / voda...
    wódka / *****....
                        oh, really? the soviets
were so bad in east Berlin?
you, you really want to know,
how the allies treated
the west berliners?
                 wir, kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo,
christine F.,
                              how did the allies
flood western Berlin with,
what speaks synonym-esque
tactic of the British Empire with
the ***** trade in China...
        i'm having to start to believe,
that the Germans? zee: Gyrmans?
sado-masochists...
                     1981...
         western berlin,
in western germany...
              it's not so bad,
in the east, living in chicken shacks...
at leat you were allowed
to live under a roof...
       western germany?
plagued by a ****** epidemic...
          what's not, to, "love"?
                    detlef R.,
                            lutz F.,
              catharina Sch.,
        andreas W.,
                            babette B.,
           werner H.,
                       michael S.,
            bärbel W.,
                             karin S.,
            livia S.,
                        rudl H.,
                              dirk L.,
                                detlef R.,
                  
this is how criminals are allocated their
media presence...
         ruf!
                     well, grand,
westsächsischjurisprudenz...
what do you call a deterrant?
   abschreckend?
                         ja?
                  when you have a jurisprudence,
that, works, as a, deterrant?
when you, actually, cage criminals?
rather than comedians,
who, are not caged, or sentenced,
and roam freely...
making the free people, a joke?

       one example: Tomasz Komenda...
i am a sick *******,
  but i'm thinking of...
those instances of ol' Jimmy S'ah-vil...
in the jurisprudent complex
of the saxon,
  the victim, sure, the victim is
allowed redemption and justice: death...
the accused is also given
redemption and justice: death...
              
   the philosophy of passing law,
incubated by: presumed innocent,
until, proven guilty,
over, guilty, until proven innocent...
i would think the latter,
to be a deterrent...
   if you have method of passing
judgement, against all favours...
            ascribed unto you...

            ich, mein herz:
                                          zu du.

i don't want to speak of justice no
more...
         simply because:
the justice i crave,
will not be served,
not with death, at least,
                    and whatever justice,
what comes with death,
i am, prone,
to at least mind
in making myself forget...
         if the reverse is true,
innocent until proven
guilty,
rather than guilty until
proven guilty...
  then... come my saving
mother, death,
             i wait for "giving" birth
to my ego...
detached from a body...
               i wait for the day,
when i am guilty,
akin to nibbling
on the fruit,
akin to the religiosity,
original sin,
   guilty until proven
innocent....
                                             ­      whatever.
Mateuš Conrad Mar 2018
/and because Magdalena: well, the better of me to the church and brothel went, while the Herr Hyde of me took to electrocuting a phallus in a pickle jar, zombified pharma-ratte, norm by bought sold and measured, never the minority report pacified don't touch safe zones on a pavement... suddenly conceived, *****, hanged, drawn, quatered by a stare as if from behind a niqab... liking fingers in a chicken shop from greasy chicken is indeed offence at apparently insinuating ***, because sloth only later asked for a wet hygienic napkin... redemption in braille, as the wolf to little red riding hood wearing glasses:

⠞⠕   ⠎⠑⠑   ⠽⠕⠥    ⠃⠑⠞⠞⠑⠗     ⠍⠽     ⠙⠑⠁⠗

just because your daughters are suddenly emancipated, you think your sons will not take to joys among Bulgarian ******? i could have sworn to have lived longer in an hour than in a month of two spoons sleeping and a pancake fried on my cheek... sure, memorable as eating a grapefruit... oddly enough i have to live with the memory, since you lobotomy is, kinda out of the question... and for once, every single time, i can bypass all ******* jitters... and not once hear a woman talk ******* during *******, e.g. imagine what my daddy would think... major turn off.



I'm not about to throw some *****-fit
just to keep up the kids,
             my apostasy is a bureaucratic
formality with the church,
           but i hardly think it would
even matter,
                    preserved out of a nuisance,
Friday was a day without meat,
     Saturday I duly walked to the church
with a święconka (easter basket)
to have salt, meat, bread, horseradish
and hard boiled eggs coloured
after being boiled in water with onion
skins for a golden finish, and a small branch
of boxwood (bukszpan / bükschpan),
or was bilberry?
    so I duly went to the church
to have the basket blessed with holy water,
to be shared on Sunday among
the family with blessings...
but like I already said,
     no choice with the baptism,
read too much about the gnostic
heretics and didn't choose to be confirmed,
but even I admit, for the sake of
the past, walking into the church
dipping my index and *******
into the holy water fountain,
and instead of making the sign of
the cross, flicking the water onto
the stone slabs of the church,
      and unlike the rest of the believers,
whenever the priest made the sign
of the cross after the opening sign
of the cross, hands behind my back,
standing like a Samson blinded,
but honestly without any real conviction,
in that i am worried that it would
appear that only one man ever existed
and only one man is to be named
among this grey mass...
         even so: easier to cherish a fictive
character than a real person,
      because there's nthe cult of Harry Potter
while Dynamo has crohn's disease...
it's far beyond the dynamism of linear
time: journalism > history > mythology,
     fictional characters will always allow
themselves a blind cult like mass of people,
go to any comic convention and you'll
see grown people put on attire...
               notably concerning
footnotes regarding the man in question,
and the year 1945, Egypt, a shepherd
who unearthed the nag hammadi
library, St.  Thomas' gospel most notably,
and if his house was once a place for
prayer, well: it's become the most
respectable bank, priests on top of
being paid a salary, do not pay taxes
on the donations they receive,
       obnoxious ******* even have the audacity
to collect donations at funerals!
yet the people say: regarding blessing
the easter (wicker) basket that it's all
for the children; yep, catch 'em while
they're young...
                            me? i just can't be bothered
to force some rebellion, notably
within my self,
                           the ******* stopped working
on me with the archeological findings...
now i just gesticulate like the other
lunatics before the altar, acting
whatever tradition there is to be acted
upon...
             which is something you don't
get in a protestant country...
                          stern black,
dark ages 2.0 with the reformation...
and as the Catholic Church was opulent
then, so it is now,
                  priests are called crows
          in these parts, hunchback mafia...                     
twice a year will do me just fine,
      and for a funeral, and for a wedding...
   drinkingwise? odd, not even the slightest
want, it's as this whole country
becomes a rehab clinic I check into
   to test the strength of my own will,
mind you, I don't know who the bigger
  alcoholics are, the English or the Poles?
why? oh, you see, in England you can buy
a 100cl of any spirit,
        and 70cl bottles...
                      in Poland the biggest bottle
is 70cl, followed up by 50cm.
              every single ******* time,
whenever i go back to England I have to
be off my rockers,
                          hardly drinking my own
sorrows away,
                          but that **** western
cynicism,
                at least nearer to Bella Ruś
           and nearer the pine & birch,
  next to cities filled by black hordes of
wings and hardly the same pigeon count...
    the red Sea miraculously parts
and I can finally tell the difference between
voda and vódka...
    mind you, the day will end as captivating
as holding a ripe pear,
             a wine cherry sunset will topple
gold statues and crosses -
    and all i'll be willing to wait for
till peparing myself for due rest,
     is the voice of an infernal diety,
trapped in the barking of a dog at night...
   as i'll wonder: how did people become
so grammatically naked,
                 in synch. with the abomination
currently presiding over english?
sure, pamper the children, give them
candyfloss, take them to the cinema,
to the circus, to the mouse kingdom,
                             water pistols and buckets
to baptise each other en masse
              celebrating śmigus dyngus...
Da ti nisi voda koja isparava,
ja ne bih bila u oblacima
Al ko moze da zaustavi prirodu i njene promene,
i imali to uopste smisla?

mh
Eshwara Prasad Jul 2020
Thoughts swirling in mind
Voda mixed with sleeping pills
Dizziness sets in

mind waking up at dawn
same swirling thoughts
engulfs mind again

Life offers no respite.

— The End —