Let US Pray Feature

                                 

                                        Tonka Lovric, CR

                                       Free Verse

Heart Today I will make a copy of heart for everyone An A3 for the beginning, so every man has it, Yet, why cannot the heart  be on a billboard Powerful and large? Today I will tell to all of you How important the heart is and what we have. Kindliness of my heart I present to all. I'm sending SMS messages to the whole world e-mails Planetwide. My father says: "Who is without heart Lies to himself". Today I will present my heart to you. That's what I wish to do, All by myself— I wish to have my heart even stronger and bigger. From my heart I wish you all well All you do is let your heart - flicker.

Srce Danas ću srce fotokopirati svima, na A3 za početak da ga svatko ima, a zašto srce na jumbo plakatu ne bi bilo, veliko i silno? Danas ću vama kazati svima koliko je bitno srce i to što se ima. Dobrotu srca darivam svima. Šaljem SMS-ove cijelom svijetu, e- mailove planetu. Moj otac kaže: -Bez srca tko je i sebe laže-. Danas ću srce pokloniti vama. Ja tako želim- od sebe same- imati srce veće i jače. Dobro vam od srca želim, dosta je samo da vaše srce zatreperi.

 

The Poets The poet can not be resentful and a nuisance. In his heart he must feel love So he could drive away the clouds And stretch the rainbows Bringing the breeze into the forests of pine. Poets must love In order to hear the birds' warbling, To touch the wings of a butterfly. His laughter should scare away sadness He should pull the curtains made of stars, Dress the brides into meadows full of daisies And wash his chest with cold spring water. So, he cannot be resentful and a grumbler but a jolly good man.

Pjesnici E, ne može pjesnik biti zlopamtilo, zanovijetalo. U srcu mora osjećati ljubav da bi oblake tjerati mogao, da bi razvlačio duge i vjetar donosio u borovu šumu. Ljubiti mora pjesnik da može čuti pjev ptice, da može dodirnuti krila leptira. Smijehom treba tjerati tugu, navlačiti zvjezdane zavjese, odijevati mladenke u livade od tratinčica i grudi umivati hladnom vodom izvorskom. E, ne može pjesnik biti zlopamtilo i zanovijetalo, već vesela dobričina.

 

Afterwards… After failures in me, within you, once the gales are gone, and wills are crucified promises failed – sprout new buds of hope. Longing scatters the seed of love and greedily in you and in me grows glee.

I bude nakon… Nakon lomova u meni, u vama, nakon oluja, razapetih htijenja i propalih obećanja- niču nove mladice nade. Žudnja rasipa sjeme ljubavi i pohlepno u meni i vama raste radost.

 

About Tonka Lovrić, CR   Tonka Lovrić was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 10th October, 1954. She graduated from the University of law in Split. She writes poems, aphorisms, fables and haiku poetry. Since 1998 she has been an active member of the Association of painters — Emanuel Vidović — in Split. She has had 28 of her solo exhibitions and about 80 group ones. She has won international literal awards in 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2010. She has published three collections of poetry, three books of aphorisms and two collections of haiku. She is included in the Anthology of Croatian Haiku Poetry 2011: An Unmown Sky and in Japan a Romanian Anthology. For her haiku she has received several awards in Croatian and abroad (Slovenia, Japan, Ireland, Great Britain, USA). This is Tonka Lovrić's first appearance in Sketchbook.