Poet for the Month - JULY 2008
For us Americans this is the month of celebration of our Independence. So for our Poet this month we bring a lady who has gained her own independence. It is a month for Celebrating Summer, Fireworks and Picnics!! Come join our Celebration with this lady of beautiful words!!
This dear Lady needs little introduction as she is so popular and well known here in Adlandpro. Her support of forums and people has become a great asset. Her own forum offers a diversity of topics.
She comes to us from Belgrade, Serbia
Somehow we can just picture her taking part in the above celebration!!
Now, please WELCOME
Branka Babic
Our Poet for the month
If she is not your friend, please invite, you will be rewarded:
http://community.adlandpro.com/go/brankababic/default.aspx
When you visit, don't forget to leave feedback!!
Visit her forum:
http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/27789/ShowForum.aspx
Branka's message:
Thanks for paying attention on one affinity of my soul – to be sensitive and confidential to pictures and sounds that may be expressed by words.
For me, poetry always was a majestic bridge between Physics and Metaphysics. (Or : between Paintings {Physics} and Musics {Metaphysics} )
While Physics teaches us that ETERNITY means FOREVER, Metaphysics insists that ETERNITY is a synonym for OUT OF TIME ...
For human beings – predestined to be aware of anything – using our physical and nonphysical senses, POETRY is a tool or BRIDGE to pass with over a terrific battle between many hypothesis-pretending-to-be-everlasting-truth.
Because of that, Poetry never discusses if something may be considered as truth.
It doesn`t judge anyone and it appreciates all.
So, it must be The Truth itself, or... ?
Sara, thanks for creating this so valuable forum . I am very grateful for this feature, and it makes me too excited to be able to express.
I write poetry from my early ages.... surely from my 6th-7th year. My poetry, as my essays, were published at Serbian and Croatian Magazines for Art.
But in English, due so well known reasons ....
....
My attempts to write poetry in English look like:
Triptych
ON MY JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND
ON MY JOURNEY TO THE
PROMISED LAND,
PASSING EACH, NEVER SEEN MEADOW,
MY STUBBORNESS USED TO BE SCANT.
I WAS CAPTURED BY MY OWN SHADOW.
SO DEEPROOTHED IN MY SENSES
AND IN MY ALWAYS BUSY THOUGHTS,
IT HAS BROKEN ALL THE RULES OF GAME.
MY OWN SHADOW HAS DONE A LOTS,
BUT NEVER STOPPED TO LAY ON ME THE BLAME.
IT WAS DILLIGENT EVEN DURING NIGHT,
BUT WHO COULD EVER SEEN A SHADY GAME -
THAN CREATED BY LIGHT?
AND WITH THIS ONE WAS ALL THE SAME :
IT USED TO STEAL THE LIGHT FROM MY INNER FLAME.
BURNING MY CHESTS,
BURNING MY MAP,
LAUGHING AT MY BLEEDING KNEES,
WHILE I WAS SITTING IN MY ANGEL`S LAP -
THE SHADOW WAS LORD OF MY MEMORIES.
KEEPENG ME REMINDED
OF YESTERDAY AND OF TOMORROW,
WASTING THIS WAY ALL AND ALL OF ME ....
THAT WAS IT - WHEN I HAVE CRIED IN A SORROW,
THAT WAS IT - WHEN I USED TO COURSE MY DESTINY!
2.
BUT NOW – HERE I AM !!!!!
SO GREAT, SO DEAR AND INCREDIBLE ONE !!!!
DANCING FREE OF ANY KIND OF JAM,
LOVING AND BEING LOVE,
JUST LOVING AND BEING LOVE ...........
I HAVE FOUND MY PROMISED LAND!
ALL WHAT IS WITHIN AND ALL AROUND IT
PULSATE IN A GOLDEN RAY HARMONY.
TO EXPLORE IT, I DON`T NEED TO PROWL THE SPACE,
NOT TO SKIP THE RUSH, NOR CACOPHONY....
ALL IS ALIGNED, ALL SO ATTUNED!
AND THE MEANING OF "I AM" JUST IS TO BE AWARE!
THIS BEAUTY IS NOT TO BE STUNED,
IT IS NOT TO FEEL DARE.
IT IS THE CORE OF THE ESSENCE IN IT`S STRIKING PRESENCE.
3.
AND HERE I HAVE MADE MY OWN NEST,
WITH ENOUGH SPACE FOR ALL THAT MAY POP IN -
INTENTIONALLY, OCASIONALLY – EACH WILL FIND THE BEST,
RELEASING HABITUAL PATTERNS, DISBANDING FROM DESTINY;
FREEDOM IS TO BE FREE, WHILE SLAVES LIVE UNDER DESTINY.
THIS JOURNEY IS SO EASY TO START.
FOLLOW YOUR LONELINESS AND LET IT BE YOUR GUIDE ,
WITHOUT RESISTANCE FROM MEMORIES TO BE APART.
FONDLING YOUR AMAZING PEEL, LOVE YOURSELF AND JUST FEEL:
LIFE WAS NOT CREATED JUST TO DIE. I AM LIFE AND I AM I!
AND PLEASE, ALWAYS BE AWARE -
NOTHING IS AGAINST YOU, AND NOTHING MAY PREVENT
YOUR WILL TO FIND YOUR VERY OWN GANGWAY
TO THE CORE OF YOUR EVERLASTING SEED.
IT`S NOT ABOUT YOUR BELIEVEABILITY. IT`S YOUR ESSENTIAL NEED.
BE AWARE, BE AWARE, BE AWARE !!!!
CALMING ALL DIALOGUES IN YOUR MIND,
JUST BE AWARE THAT YOU KNOW HOW TO PASS THROUGH
ALL ILLUSORY SCILAS AND HARBIDAS. STAY CALM AND BE KIND.
THIS LAND CREATOR HAS PROMISED TO YOU!
© Branka Babic, Belgrade/June 2008
POETIC VIGNETE FOR MY SPOILED LOVER
two big, big pears,
the two - so sweet, two joygivers ...
two yours
the two ...
exposed
on the plate of life,
ripen,
to spoil you.
© Branka Babic, Belgrade/June 2008
Enjoy, friends and please give your support to these beautiful words and the ability to translate into English. (Now you can see why she has been so busy!!)
Sara