DESANKA RISTIC

DESANKA RISTIĆ

Returning To My True Self

Returning to my true self

After having strayed from myself

Cold and fragile

I have given up on myself

Returning to my true self

Weaving the loose threads

Disentangling the intricate web

I have forsaken myself

Returning to my true self

Curing the untreated illnesses

Healing the incurable wounds

Trying to strengthen myself

Returning to my true self

Silent when longing to scream

Closing my eyes before the unseen

An intimate stranger to myself

Returning to my true self

Seeing only myself

Curious about myself

Have I given up on true myself

Bird

You're staring at my sorrows

You paint them with a smile

 When silence fires

Your voice then is a golden tide

And when the soul's pain is silenced

Your hand is in your hand

I know you're staying forever

From the beginning of my strength In my soul

I snored the nest

Like a fresco moth

And think me the gold strings

Which one plays the moonlight

One stars You're the dark

My dreams of my heaven

I know I stay forever thirsty

Framed bird white

Vineyard

You are my Vineyard

My thoughts and breathing

My survival and enthusiasm

My Love is exalted

I am Your birth line

Your shade and Your fruit

Your delight is in me

Your seed grew into a bowl

You're feeding me with rainwater

You pour me the sun into the berries

You smoke me fog

You cover snow with your lips

I guard your delight with love

I'm giving you a whip

Without You, I'm not a vineyard

Without me, you're not a vineyard

DESANKA RISTIC

DESANKA RISTIC, born in 1965 in Kikinda, where she graduated from the Pedagogical Academy and then the Faculty of Education in Sombor. She works in elementary school "Vuk Karadzic" as a teacher of class teaching. Married and mother of three children: Tamara, Tijana and Mihaila. So far, she has published collections of poetry While I so wish, Narodna Biblioteka "Jovan Popović" Kikinda 1998., Ozarja, BKC Novo Miloševo 2009. and Nišča, BKC Novo Miloševo 2014. Žurim Ti, Dositej Gornji Milanovac 2017.