VERICA TADIĆ

VERICA TADIĆ

THE BRIGHTEST LIGHTHOUSE

When you love like a century your day is long

And nobody can In no war win you

You are no more a lonely and little I

Your I is growing

And becomes larger than you

Larger than life

Only then The World is smaller

Than the universe of two beings

In whose encounter All fluids of the cosmos

Touch and epitomize

Only then you are a chord of human power

In the interval I YOU WE ALL

And when death irrevocably

transfers you to unknown spaces

You will be the brightest lighthouse

Wherever you are

On the continent of your name

LOVE will shine

The most durable Sanctity

In which future generations

Will take communion

Only that Sanctity

Is larger than dreams and reality

Larger than everything that exists

Because LOVE has made Both Gods and People

***

UNIVERSES OF TENDERNESS

In the shells of time

Murmurs the sea

of our days

Nothing else

Is important to me

That I can wish for

In this world

From the moment

our beings rearrange

in the universes

of tenderness

In a fusion of two universes

A new Sun is always born

And only then you can cruise

through infinity

And sail into some

Magical waters

In which every touch

And kiss

Turn into

islands of flowers

And only then you ride

On a star   born in magic

The powder of which   shines

Even when   the star   fades away

***

WHEN I BECOME A PRAYER

If you are upper eyelash

And me lower eyelash

Our love will be the eye

That sees both worlds

This one here

And the one above us

As long as the music of stars

Announces  your arrival

And in my  smile

The Moon  of your sky

Daydreams

Connected in myriad

Of mutual flickers

We will live in each other

As reflections in the water

So if I am a holiday

Be my celebration

When I am a prayer

Be a saint in front of which

I keep vigil in prayer

When in each breath

One eternity lives

And in each step heavenly

We touch the road

We will dream our future US

English translation:

ŽELJKA  FODULOVIĆ

VERICA TADIĆ

VERICA TADIĆ was born on 08.12.1949 in Donji Dubac (Municipality of  Guča, Western Serbia). She graduated from the Economics Faculty in Kragujevac. She has been publishing contemporary poetry, haiku poems, essays, reviews, studies, stories, maxims and aphorisms in domestic and international magazines and joint publications. She is represented in numerous literary editions and magazines, in forty joint books, as well as in eight anthologies of Serbian writers, two anthologies of Balkan writers and one world anthology.