VALENTINA NOVKOVIĆ

 

 

I'm Dreaming

 

I'm dreaming

sails that the wind does not move,

shores that are like hungry jackals

branches that don't crackle

when you walk on them.

I dream of my father and mother,

embraced in the light,

while my eyes paint valleys of tears.

 

I dream of rivers

that have been robbed

of their freedom by human cruelty;

now drop by drop weep for the seas.

 

Cruel laugh

 

Cheeks-dead ends for sadness

that does not pass.

Lips - tired, dry to beg more for

a piece of bread.

 

Hands-clenched into fists

from which the warmth of

the parental hug

has disappeared forever.

 

Man, can you call yourself a man,

looking at the children

you robbed of their future

with a cruel laugh.

 

VALENTINA NOVKOVIĆ

 

VALENTINA NOVKOVIĆ (Serbia), graduate philologist, poet, prose writer, literary translator. Editor in a publishing house. Published four book of poems (Timeless 2014, Drop by drop 2018, Riddles of Tenderness, 2020, Poems to the Heaven, 2022, which won the first prize at the Fifth Drina Literary Meeting) and one prose book (Two hours from reality, 2020), Winner of many awards for poetry and prose as well as for translations. The book of stories by the famous writer and translator Rahim Karimov, "Stories for youbg people" Alma, 2019, which she translated into Serbian, received the award for the best translated prose book in 2019 by Literary Translators. Her verses have been translated into 16 world languages, and the book Odgonetke nežnosti was translated into Romanian in 2022 (Leo Butnaru translator, Timpul publisher.) She has translated individual stories and poems of more than 300 authors into Serbian, interviewed all important creators around the world and interviews were published in more widely read newspapers or magazines for culture and art. Member of the Association of Writers of Serbia and Kazakhstan, the Serbian Literary Association, and many associations in the world. Editor and host of the forum "Literary Conversations".