Short Milivojev Poems

Saša Milivojev - IN AN OLD CHURCH

 

I woke up

In an old church

Its roof leaking

A drop fell on my forehead

And I saw God’s face

 


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Saša Milivojev - AT THE RIVER’S END



Love

Like an endless river

A firefly awaits

Shining from afar

Behind the darkness

Behind the clouds

Behind the sighs

 

 

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Saša Milivojev - LOCUSTS



Black mountains are crumbling

The locusts hiss all around

Suddenly all is gone

The buzzing has harvested it all

Gnawed bones

Float soaked

 

 
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Saša Milivojev - VOLCANO



Below the naked sky

A hole is seething

An avalanche is boiling

The sun is melting away

Who protects you

From the burning rain

Now that you are gone

 

 
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Saša Milivojev - THE RAT



We met at the staircase

It looked at me

I looked at it

It was thinking

I was thinking

It smiled

I smiled

Then I took it in my hands

And stroked it

 

 

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Saša Milivojev - THE HEALER


Close your eyes and listen to the

Sky

Receive light

Through my body

Sky

The stars’ entire light

Is absorbed by your body

From burning hands

The endless warmth

Is so beguiling




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Saša Milivojev - THE FIREFLY AND THE WIND

 

Thunder rumbles

The poles melting

Waves crashing

Towns sinking

I prayed to heaven

The wind has extinguished you

I will go barefoot on ice

Freeze myself going after you

My love

 

 
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Saša Milivojev - ICE AGE

 

An endless plate of ice

The camel carries me

Treading heavily

Icy tears from sobbing splutter

It stumbles

Over the tips of the pyramids

Weeping

The soul is wrenched

My firefly is not here

At nine

As it once was

 

 
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Saša Milivojev - ON THE ICEBERG


Perfection in feathers

A halo caught in black hair

My penitence eternal

As fear turns me

Into dust

My heart snaps

Like guitar strings

The body is not a body

As she won’t say

She also longs

To melt on the iceberg

 

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Saša Milivojev - WINE AND FIRE


Imagine
You and I
Destiny
A night awakening
A spring that brings calmness
Body against body
Eye to eye
Wine and fire
Heaven opens
Sand and sweat
Waves crashing
A touch irresistible
Alone
Free as birds
Broken by love
Exhausted by passion

 

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Saša Milivojev - LARVAE

 
Nine

Evening

A bright speck soars

Darkness from the sky

The spinning of a wedding dance

The sound of waves crashing

Against the rocks

Lava runs through the veins

A multitude of larvae

Behind the rocks

Shine instead of moonlight

 


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Saša Milivojev - GO

 
Go
When you awake
Spend the day with another
Vanish like a dream
The moonlight has dripped
In my eyes
I have no more words
Go
We have tried so much
Yet we have lost
What we dreamed of
We loved  each other so much
And now I say
Go
Vanish
Vanish into oblivion

 


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Saša Milivojev - AT THE CROSSROADS


Again I hear the trumpets
And a wedding party from afar
It raises the dead
They are coming
And I'm leaving
Embroidering the shroud
For myself
Made of cheap verses
Of wails and pains
That no one can hear
In the silence
At the crossroads
I speak to the Light and the Darkness

 

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Saša Milivojev - NO ONE TO DEDICATE A POEM TO
 

Bitterness
I have no one
To dedicate my poem to
Emptiness
Silence echoes
There is no one
All those I respect
I cannot reach
To show them
I’m ordinary
Normal
And reasonable for everything
I write
Hoping that someone will hear me
And I have no one
To dedicate my poem to



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Saša Milivojev - SUNSET

 
God is sleeping
I hug the sun
In the orange sky
The magnet is playing
Orange hookah
The muddy water of the Nile
A secret
An echo of silence is heard
Fingers on lips
A thought
Pyramid in the chest
Shiny steel
A touch
Like a mummy
I fell asleep
Eternally
Among red corals
And God is awakening

 

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Saša Milivojev - ON A KILIM
 

I trembled when you were gone

Away from the terrors of time

Metal and synthetics

In the Near East

I float on a kilim

Down a gusting wind

Allah

Raises dust

Water, closer

The smoke of a hookah

That’s what we are

Shhh

Something's breathing

It’s me

It’s you

We are lost

 

 
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Saša Milivojev - KUNDALINI


I will quench my thirst on water spring

I will recall bygone memories

Will awaken Sahasrara chakra

With Heavenly lustre from above

I shall join the Light in Glory with Love

That in luminosity its way will find

Bringing Peace to the Spirit of Mankind.


 

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Saša Milivojev - SEE-SAW



When I climb

Up the tall clear sky

A narrow path unfolds

A see-saw screeching beside it

I rock on the glowing beam

Watching through the clouds

They climb up the threads

And turn into flowers

Cursing memories

The dream crumbles down

And the meadow above

Sings at the top of its voice

 
 

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Saša Milivojev - MAGNET

 

Plus and minus
The sun
The moon
The earth
A fervent wish
The harmony of bodies
Minus and minus
When one has no one
Has nothing
Is with no one
Plus and plus
When something is calling
But rejecting
The sound of a sea organ
The clash of clouds
The blood quickens
The sun plays with lava
People will be stripped of their poles

 
 
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Saša Milivojev - EYES

 

In the eyes it is seen

Innocence to tuck you in

To bind you with wire

By peeling off the scales, to consume the soul

To make a coronet of straws

For the eyes that nail the words

Like stakes

To the heart’s silk membrane

The eyes’ shine tells

How lonely they are

How dreamy they are

For a touch

A fleeting touch

 

 

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Saša Milivojev - WHEN THE FIREFLY IS GONE



The tide shies away from the sand

Under the dark clouds

Someone is waiting  

The lyre is calling for it

To fly down and shine

Fiery wires

Weave soft sentences

The water is still now

It’s turned to oil

The light speck has gone away

The lyre has fallen silent

And the shore remains deserted

Forever

 

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Saša Milivojev - ESCAPE
 

I started walking thirsty
An endless expanse
I saw myself on the other side
Walking towards me
Am I him
Or is he me
My body carried me
Not deluded by the dream
Thick wheat slowing me down
Sweat trickling
The sun murderous
Then he saw that I was he
And fled into the sunflower field
Tired of searching
In vain
I went home
Without myself
 


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Saša Milivojev - TO PUT THE SUN OUT
 

They are leaving

Through my dirty windows

I see the shadows in the distance

The sound of footsteps disappears in the silence

And a voice lures me

To scream out my tears

To return into my madness

To forget everything

To hang my soul on the washing line

My heart to stop the earth

To put the sun out

The End

 


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Saša Milivojev - THE LAST HORSEMAN

 
White, everything is white
The walls are moving
A body in hospital sheets
White horses pull the bed
The soul crawls behind them and begs
White
Around the bed
Angels dance in a circle
The sky sheds its clothes
Give me back my body
To forge my heart
I do not want to travel anymore
Through this endless field
Wrapped in white sheets

 

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Saša Milivojev - TAKE ME


Take me to eternity
With the smell of moist hair
With the sadness of a spring night
Take me
I lie on a black moth’s wing
Circling round the lampion
Through the darkness
Vanishing like dust
Carried by the wind
The truth I won’t accept
Saddened by the cold look
I fall into Hades
If you still exist
Come and take me to the midst of people

 
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