VERICA TADIĆ

VERICA TADIĆ

ENCOUNTER

The air is dancing

In the opium

If red poppies

The universe is signing

On

The petals

Of kisses

Larvae of the Moment

Transform

Into butterflies

Of eternity

ON LANDSCAPES OF HOPE

If I am a tear

Blue in your eye

And a thought

By which

You stretch wings

To butterflies of joy

Then

I could be also

Your travelling companion

Through high and low tides

On the sea of life

If you are

Chlorophyllous Easter

On the landscapes of hope

Which

By energy

Of refined colors

In the humus

Of monotonous

Everyday life

Revives brightness

Then

Me too

Could be

Singing string

On your lyra

When

Hours sink

In wordlessness

And

Blaming lullaby

To the echo

Of your

Inquietude

When

The open sea

Of still undreamed

Dawns

Ruffles

In a storm

MERIDIANS OF THE SOUL

Death is final

When a thousand of me

Dies in a thousand of you

And when a thousand of you

Dies in a thousand of me

All other deaths

Do not count

Life is not

What looks like life

When we return

Divided

Into my and your

Meridians of the soul

And everybody

Welcomes

Victories

And defeats alone

Although we know

That divided

Into mine and yours

We will not

Arrive

To us

By the same

Roads

If we

Are separated

By equator of emptiness

And icy archipelago of emptiness

Takes away the heat

From the looks

Then we

Have already

Lived our lives

Through

TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH: ŽELJKA FODULOVIĆ

VERICA TADIĆ

VERICA TADIĆ writes prose and poetry. 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 thirteen anthologies. She won several literary awards. Laureate is also the prize of the „Naji Naaman“ Foundation, from Lebanon – „Honour prizes (for complete works)” , for 2018. She has published twelve books. Her poetry has been translated into Slovakian, Russian, Polish, German, English, Spanish Italian, and, short stories into Slovenian. Verica Tadić lives in Čačak, Serbia. She has been a member of the Association of Serbian Writers since 2004.