PhD Sladjana Milenkovic

Poem-1

I FEED ON WORDS 

I feed on eight-shaped words

carved in the stone of Andric`s City

with four earrings in a flower

a wreath of midsummer flowers and one rose,

I feed on words in flight above Kusturica’s films.

I seek freedom from historical light

to illuminate rates of Gavrilo Princip

from the springs and whirlpools of Drina

to straighten the spirit and open the eyes dulled by sin.

As soon as the sun makes eight circles 

I give myself the freedom 

to fed on words and spread my wings like an eagle

Principles to overthrow the chains

from the dungeon to the light and fly, fly,

high, high, high, above the river Drina.

I was born from Andric’s eighth word.

The prophet announced the child

unhappy, but sweet-blooded, merciful and sensitive.

Stitched in the thoughts of the creator

legal father and illegitimate mother

history distorted and the truth buried in the heart

gave birth to me from a stone-city of words.

From the thoughts of fathers fell on mother Earth, a bridge the Drina

over someone’s shoulder, a child of words sways a grandmother on her lap.

I feed on words big and small

the cutest with true colors

of eternal rivers Drina and Andric`s City.

Poem-2

ITALIAN

What is your word?

Coffee americano, in Rome it’s lungo coffee

so black, hot and long with milk, for the lady,

extended espresso.

Which woman?

Nescafé with milk in a tall glass?

Cappuccino?

I’m not like my friends, you don’t know yet.

Short, black, killer.

You would talk with someone but don’t understand anyone

And You don’t even want to break free

You still love that pain that binds the heart

because it wants to make you more aware

that You have money for coffee, for a lover, a leather purse

l’Italiano.

The Spanish Steps where You are in the crowd,

The quietest place, the emptiest place, the loneliest,

reminds of sadness.

We just need a chat because everything has already been said.

I am a melodious word that bites:

Coffee with milk.

PhD Sladjana Milenkovic

Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia