Miodrag Pavlović

Language: serbian

Balkanski putopis

Polako idi kroz male crkve
ne pitajući za put,
pozdravi se s drvenim rukama svetaca
ogrezlim u krv i mleko,
gledaj u svodovima džamija
drhtanje belih zmija,
podesi svoje vreme
po kućnim satovima večnosti,
sagni se pod ponoćnim zvonjavama
bistrim i teškim
kao da ti zvezde padaju na šlem,
u šumi velikih ruža
posedi s majstorima
neka ti nežnim dletom promene lik.

Onda u planine!
Do divovskih čaša punih leda
i studenih čardaka magle.
Tad se obazri
i pogledaj dole te trke ludih šuma
i zveri bešnje od vetra,
na pustošnom vidiku naroda nema
ni vitkih zdanja,
još niko tu nije stigao,
još ništa tu nije stvoreno,
ni sabor glasova, ni reke!

Sve što si video na Balkanu
behu samo privid-lađe
na mrkoj pučini prapočetka.

Miodrag Pavlović

Миодраг Павловић

* 28.11.1928, Novi Sad, Serbia
† 17.08.2014, Germany

Miodrag Pavlović was born 1928, in Novi Sad. He graduated on the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade and worked shortly as physician. He was director of drama of the National Theater in Belgrade. For two decades he was editor at the Publishing House Prosveta, Belgrade. Poetry and essays translated to all European and to several Oriental languages. A regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) and the European Academy of Poetry (Luxembourg). Miodrag Pavlović lives alternately in Tuttlingen (Germany) and Belgrade.

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