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Literature Vasko Popa
Literature Vasko Popa
| Vasko Popa |
| Tuesday, 05 August 2008 02:59 | |
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Poem no. 22 from the "Far Inside Us" collection Our day is a green apple Cut in half I look at you You don't see me There's a blind sun between us On the stairway Our torn-apart hug You call me I don't hear you There's deaf air between us In the shop-windows My lips seek Your smile On the crossroads Our run-over kiss I've given you a hand You don't feel it The void has given you a hug On the city squares Your tear seeks My eyes In the evening my dead day Meets your dead day Only in a dream Do we walk in the same fields
translation: Lazar Pašćanović
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Vasko Popa was a 20th century Serbian modernist poet, famous for developing a unique poetic language in which symbolist poetry is merged with the characteristic vocabulary of oral folk traditions. His style is concise and sunccinct, often eliptical, and saturated with humour.