SLAVICA MINIĆ CATIĆ

 

 

Multiplied

 

​I am a child-woman.

I am a woman-woman.

A friend-woman.

And a mother-woman.

A lover-woman.

A poem-woman.

For I write with a quill.

I am love.

I am magic.

What more could you ever need?

In me, you have everything,

compared to those who love you skin-deep.

For they are only singular.

But I have given pieces of myself to true love,

And multiplied all these within my own being.

There is so much of me inside of me,

In this one me, in me—the woman.

Always longing for kind words and tender care.

This one woman in me can give it all.

And be yours forever, belonging to you.

So just think,

Can just anyone be magic?

But I am.

And I am proud,

for it is a privilege to be this woman within me,

MULTIPLIED.

 

The Touch Of Souls

 

​Though we are far from one another,

our souls touch,

and caress.

They sing their lullabies.

​Sometimes the dawns scream,

torn apart by questions,

mornings shriek, and a new tomorrow aches.

​Of all the pains, the darkness wails the most.

But the souls have met,

and they will again... in some new morning,

in some enlightened hour,

bathed in love,

they will recognize each other

to herald some new versions of us.

 

SLAVICA MINIĆ CATIĆ

 

SLAVICA MINIĆ CATIĆ is a poet from Kragujevac, Serbia. She is the author of three poetry collections: Dodiri beskraja (Touches of Infinity), Šapat duša (Whisper of Souls), and Usana dah (Breath of Lips). Her work has been showcased at the 67th and 68th International Belgrade Book Fair and is frequently featured in numerous literary anthologies. Known for her deeply humanitarian nature, Slavica often organizes book promotions with a charitable character. She is a mother of two and a woman who possesses the soul of a child. It is often said that she was born as a poem, destined to turn her inner world into a lyre. Highly respected in the Serbian literary scene, she continues to write and create with an unyielding passion.