MILICA JEFTIMIJEVIĆ LILIĆ

MILICA JEFTIMIJEVIĆ LILIĆ

GLORY TO THEE

Glory to Thee, O Lord,

World without end

For endowing me with a miraculous might

To yield like earth,

To transform

Like water into the blessed wine

Touched with the almighty spark.

Glory to Thee, O Lord,

World without end

For multiplying my body

Possessed by love,

Translated into dear faces

Which lit me up

Like the light of Tabor

Shining perpetually.

Glory to Thee, O Lord,

World without end

For elevating me with the Logos

To reach the unimagined,

To collect the jewels of mind

Into the timeless string

To shine with Thee

World without end.

Glory to Thee, O Lord

World without end

For endowing me

With all-merciful love

While I glisten inspired

With Thy presence

Praising Thy might

Amazed by my

Doom.

Glory to Thee, O Lord,

World without end

For our becoming relatives

Imbued with the Logos.

GOD UNITES US

That touch of the hands,

That sublime giving

Occurred beyond recall.

As if we washed death

From our hands

Everything that used to be

Between us  for centuries.

We were gathered by the Logos.

As if we were born

In that joining of the hands,

In the bliss not felt before.

The water of the essence

Flows through us

Into our palms,

So that God's face reflects in it

And speaks through us.

God unites us, He is here to stay!

He has settled into our palms

And we keep Him to ourselves,

God is between as!

Milica Jeftimijevic Lilic

TRANSL.LAZAR MACURA

HOLY FRAGRANCES

The holy fragrances of childhood follow us, they live in us!

It's Christmas Day. It is necessary to go to the forest,

to take  Holy Tree, to feed hungry birds.

And then in the evening, feed the fire to flare up,

At Christmas evening, it announces the Great Birth.

Preheating, standing on the stove Holy Tree,

On it there is a coin, for Peace and Bliss.

Then the host takes the eater and the jar,

I'm whispering, blessed, fly flying squirrels

As if they understand the game: How much of a fire

so many boys, how many bucks, so many sons!

How many stars, so many girls,

Lamb, every treasure! How many ...

Peace of God, Christ is born!

He would repeat the host for three times,

then he would have been admitted to the excitement

Happiness, delightful as part of the great secrets,

The New Birth of Christ while everyone is imagined

A strange shine as taken from God's face

In the mildly clear eyes, she screams from within.

Milica Jeftmijevic Lilic

TRANSL. CLAUDIA

MILICA JEFTIMIJEVIĆ LILIĆ

MILICA JEFTIMIJEVIĆ LILIĆ was born at Lovac near Banjska, Kosovo & Metohija, on August 28, 1953. She graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Priština, and won a master's degree in philological sciences at the University of Belgrade. She was a professor at the University of  Priština, and editor on Belgrade TV. She has published the following collections of poems: Dark, Salvation (1955), The Hibernation (1998), The Travelogue of the Skin (2003), and a collection of stories The Subject-matter of the Case (2002). She has also published books of criticism: Poetics of the Premonition (2004), The Epsistomlogical Illuminations (2007), Critical Roots and Ranges (2011), The Exactness of the Secret (2012)…Partenon buildings of stars, (poetry) ,Arka Smederevo , Stari Kolašin,Zbin Potok, 2015… She also writes stories for children which have been published in Children's Papers, Jedinstvo, and other newspapers. Shi is represented in many anthologies and has many literary awards of national importance  as international...Her poems  and pieces of criticism have been translated into Russian, English, Italian, German, French, Hungarian,Macedonian, Turkish, Swedish, Polish and Arabic....more than 28 lenguages of world. She  was vice President of the Association of writers of Serbia, a member of literary society of writers of Kosovo and Metohija and a member of the Association of Journalists of Serbia. Lives in Belgrade since 1999.

TRANSLATED FROM THE SERBIAN

BY LAZAR MACURA