The Power Of Flight
In the time of
summer
When the cricket
sigh in the field.
When the heat
spreads across the cheeks.
When the birds
sway in the sky,
And when the sea
offers its fragrant hand.
The poet wants
to put flight into his poem.
While the pale
paper smiles at the poet,
He commands the
bird
To climb into
the feather.
To spread its
wings around the paper
And to put its
strength into song.
Shortly, the
bird lets out a cry and says:
"Poet, lift
your head up,
Look at my brothers
and sisters
Gliding across
the sky.
May your feather
be filled in the summer
While you hang
out with us."
And the poem is
made.
Now you too poem
lovers can
Wander with the
birds
Because the
power of flight
Is in the love
we create for others.
The Time Of Silence
There are those
of us
Who hear
The sounds of
silence
That summer's
defiance –
The airy canopy
Full of swelling
day.
There are those
of us who hear
The sound of
wings,
When a bird
soars
To those unreal
expanses.
And while we are
silent about all that.
While we spread
our hands to nature,
We hear and this
human silence,
A lawless
silence full of torment.
I Am A Bird
I am a bird
With wide wings
And a red beak
My body touches
the clouds. I am faster than other
birds.
I was seen around
the desert and the ocean.
Furthermore, I
flew around the glaciers
And touched the
mountain fairies.
I am a bird,
The freest of
all birds.
I ran away from
the canvas.
Likewise, I am
wild.
Outwitted the
eagle and made the falcon laugh.
I am a bird,
Of the most
beautiful colors and delicate feathers,
With a refined
taste.
I'm grieving.
Hey, I grieve
for love.
Help me.
In his eye I saw
The sun and
comets unseen.
In his touch I
recognized the twinkling of the soul,
And in his smile
a lifted heart.
I give freedom
for that love.
Take away my
wings!
Please.
For the sake of
our embrace.
Because a bird
cannot hug
while flying
somewhere high.
Copyright©Tanja Prokopljević
Translated By
Tanja Prokopljević
TANJA PROKOPLJEVIĆ
TANJA PROKOPLJEVIĆ was born on August 22. 1971 in Zemun (Serbia).
She acquired primary and secondary education in her hometown, and higher
education in tourism in New Belgrade. She studied English in America. After
returning from America (1995), she was successful in journalism until 2001.
Then she started publishing. She worked as a director and editor in the
publishing company "Estart", but also for other publishing houses.
She published her first book, a collection of newspaper articles, in 2002. She
is the author of eleven collections of poems, essays on movements in
contemporary art, two novels and novels of documentary prose, and concluding
with this year 2021, two books of stories and collections of literary
criticism.
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