Slobodan Marković (Слободана Марковића)

Zabava mi beše

Poems

• 1 Oko mene | Translations: en
• 2 Pohvalu večernju
• 3 Prekinuti nit
• 4 Sve što mogu reći
• 5 Zabava mi beše | Translations: en

Language: serbian

Translations: english (My party was)

Zabava mi beše

Zabava mi beše
Da se na me smeše
Kojekakve vile
Ali sad već leže
Moja bolna ruka
U gomilu svile
Bolje da sam ostao
Uz svog malog vuka
U nedrima sile
Jer več neko kleše
Obelisk za mene
Kleše, ali kuka
Što me tako rano
Na groblje poneše
Čete volšebnika
Sve po taktu marša
Vrlo stara slika
I eto,
više nema neprilika
Gotova je farsa
Jednog umetnika

Translations:

Language: english

My party was

My party was
Smileys that were
From Fairies somewhere
But now lies elsewhere
My sore arm
In the crumpled silk
It is better that I stayed
With my little wolf
In heart of hurricane
Someone – look!
Carves my tombstone
carves and sobs
Why am I, so young,
On cemetery brought
By the hands of Army Death
In funeral march unison
Custom very old
But look!
There is no trouble anymore
The farce of an artist
Is completed furthermore 

Slobodan Marković

Слободана Марковића

photo © Ксенија Шукуљевић-Марковић

* 26.10.1928, Skopje, Macedonia
† 30.01.1990, Belgrade, Serbia

Slobodan Marković (Alias Libero Marconi), born in 1928 in Skopje, where his father Dimitrije been serving as an officer in the army. He spent his childhood in Peć (on Kosovo), and in Belgrade, where he graduated in Second Belgrade Gymnasium. In 1943 he was detained in a camp in Smederevo. Some of his books of poems are "Seven midnight narratives through the keyhole," "Once in town who knows whom" (1980). He has published 62 books and two more were printed after his death: "South Boulevard" and "Write that down, Libero", which was prepared by his wife Ksenija Šukuljević-Marković. He also worked on translation, was a journalist in daily newspaper "Borba", painter and bohemian. For the book "Luka" won the „Jovan Jovanović Zmaj“ Award 1975. He wrote the screenplay for the famos Serbian film „Boxers go to heaven“. He died on January 30, 1990 and was buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens at the New Cemetery in Belgrade in the same grave, along to famous poet Milos Crnjanski, also represented in Lyrikline.

photo © Ксенија Шукуљевић-Марковић

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