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[Ulmawen]

Danas je prvi pravi kišni dan koji najavljuje neminovan dolazak jeseni. Takvi dani u meni bude raznorazna pozitivna, i pomalo setna, osećanja, a ponajviše, sećaju na neku, meni dragu, poeziju.
U to ime, predlažem da ovde prilažemo naše omiljene pesme koje su nam drage; da li zbog svog neminovnog kvaliteta, ili zbog nekih lepih sećanja koja nas za njih vežu, neka ostane na vama. ;)
Da otvorim sezonu sa mojim najomiljenijim poemama.:)


J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html) - The Trees of Kortirion (finalna verzija)

I
Alalminórë

O ancient city on a leaguered hill!
Old shadows linger in your broken gate,
Your stones are grey, your old halls now are still,
Your towers silent in the mist await
Their crumbling end, while through the storeyed elms
The River Gliding leaves these inland realms
And slips between long meadows to the Sea,
Still bearing down by weir and murmuring fall
One day and then another to the Sea;
And slowly thither many days have gone
Since first the Edain built Kortirion.

Kortirion! Upon your island hill
With windling streets, and alleys shadow-walled
Where even now the peacocks pace in drill
Majestic, sapphirine and emerald,
Once long ago amid this sleeping land
Of silver rain, where still year-laden stand
In unforgetful earth the rooted trees
That cast long shadows in the bygone noon,
And whispered in the swiftly passing breeze,
Once long ago, Queen of the land of Elms,
High city were you of the Inland Realms.

Your trees in summer you remember still:
The willow by the spring, the beech on hill;
The rainy poplars, and the frowning yews
Within your aged courts that muse
In sombre splendour all the day,
Until the firstling star comes glimmering,
And flittermice go by on silent wing;
Until the white moon slowly climbing sees
In shadow-fields the sleep-enchanted trees
Night-mantled all in silver-grey.
Alalminor! Here was your citadel,
Ere bannered summer from his fortress fell;
About you stood arrayed your host of elms:
Green was their armour, tall and green their helms,
High lords and captains of the trees.
But summer wanes. Behold, Kortirion!
The elms their full sail now have crowded on
Ready to the winds, like masts amid the vale
Of mighty ships too soon, too soon, to sail
To other days beyond these sunlit seas.


II
Narquelion*

Alalminórë! Green heart of the Isle
Where linger yet the faithful Companies!
Still undespairing here they slowly file
Down lonely paths with solemn harmonies:
The Fair, the first-born in an elder day,
Immortal Elves, who singing on their way
Of bliss of old and grief, though men forget,
Pass like a wind among the rustling trees,
A wave of bowing grass, and men forget
Their voices calling from a time we do not know,
Their gleaming hair like sunlight long ago.

A wind in the grass! The turning of the year.
A shiver in the reeds beside the stream,
A whisper in the trees - afar they hear,
Piercing the heart of summer's tangled dream,
Chill music that a herald piper plays
Foreseeing winter and the leafless days.
The late flowers trembling on the ruined walls
Already stoop to hear that elven-flute.
Through the wood's sunny aisles and tree-propped halls
Winding amid the green with clear cold note
Like a thin strand of silver glass remote.

The high-tide ebbs, the year will soon be spent;
And all your trees, Kortirion, lament.
At morn the whetstone rang upon the blade,
At eve the grass and golden flowers were laid
To wither, and the meadows bare.
Now dimmed already comes the tardier dawn,
Paler the sunlight fingers creep across the lawn.
The days are passing. Gone like moths the nights
When white wings fluttering danced like satellites
Round tapers in the windless air.
Lammas is gone. The Harvest-moon has waned.
Summer is dying that so briefly reigned.
Now the proud elms at last begin to quail,
Their leaves uncounted tremble and grow pale,
Seeing afar the icy spears
Of winter march to battle with the sun.
When bright All-Hallows fades, their day is done,
And borne on wings of amber wan they fly
In heedless winds beneath the sullen sky,
And fall like dying birds upon the meres.
(...)

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(...)
III
Hrívion*

Alas! Kortirion, Queen of Elms, alas!
This season best befits your ancient town
With echoing voices sad that slowly pass,
Winding with waning music faintly down
The paths of stranded mist. O fading time,
When morning rises late all hoar with rime,
And early shadows veil the distant woods!
Unseen the Elves go by, their shining hair
They cloak in twilight under secret hoods
Of grey, their dusk-blue mantles gird with bands
Of frosted starlight sewn by silver hands.

At night they dance beneath the roofless sky,
When naked elms entwine in branching lace
The Seven Stars, and through the boughs the eye
Stares down cold-gleaming in the high moon's face.
O Elder Kindred, fair immortal folk!
You sing now ancient songs that once awoke
Under primeval stars before the Dawn;
You dance like shimmering shadows in the wind,
As once you danced upon the shining lawn
Of Elvenhome, before we were, before
You crossed wide seas unto this mortal shore.

Now are your trees, old grey Kortirion,
Through pallid mists seen rising tall and wan,
Like vessels vague that slowly drift afar
Out, out to empty seas beyond the bar
Of cloudy ports forlorn;
Leaving behind for ever havens loud,
Wherein their crews a while held feasting proud
In lordly ease, they now like windy ghosts
Are wafted by cold airs to friendless coasts,
And silent down the tide are borne.
Bare has your realm become, Kortirion,
Stripped of its raiment, and its splendour gone.
Like lighted tapers in a darkened fane
The funeral candles of the Silver Wain
Now flare above the fallen year.
Winter is come. Beneath the barren sky
The Elves are silent. But they do not die!
Here waiting they endure the winter fell
And silence. Here I too will dwell;
Kortirion, I will meet the winter here.


IV
Mettanyë*

I would not find the burning domes and sands
Where reigns the sun, nor dare the deadly snows,
Nor seek in mountains dark the hidden lands
Of men long lost to whom no pathway goes;
I need no call of clamant bell that rings
Iron-tongued in the towers of earthly kings.
Here on the stones and trees there lies a spell
Of unforgotten loss, of memory more blest
Than mortal wealth. Here undefeated dwell
The Folk Immortal under withered elms,
Alalminórë once in ancient realms.

(*Narquelië- oktobar; **Hrívë- zima; Mettanyë- završetak)

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/)- The Stolen Child

Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scare could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) (http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/)- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Part I

It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
`By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?

The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
Mayst hear the merry din.'

He holds him with his skinny hand,
"There was a ship," quoth he.
`Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'
Eftsoons his hand dropped he.

He holds him with his glittering eye -
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
The Mariner hath his will.

The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.

"The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.

The sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.

Higher and higher every day,
Till over the mast at noon -"
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,
For he heard the loud bassoon.

The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she;
Nodding their heads before her goes
The merry minstrelsy.

The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,
Yet he cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.

"And now the storm-blast came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong:
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along.

With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And foward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
And southward aye we fled.

And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.

And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken -
The ice was all between.

The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!

At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God's name.

It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us through!

And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo!

In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white moonshine."

`God save thee, ancient Mariner,
From the fiends that plague thee thus! -
Why look'st thou so?' -"With my crossbow
I shot the Albatross."


Part II

"The sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.

And the good south wind still blew behind,
But no sweet bird did follow,
Nor any day for food or play
Came to the mariners' hollo!

And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist.

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.

Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!

All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the moon.

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white.

And some in dreams assured were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.

And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.

Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung."
(...)

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Part III

"There passed a weary time. Each throat
Was parched, and glazed each eye.
A weary time! a weary time!
How glazed each weary eye -
When looking westward, I beheld
A something in the sky.

At first it seemed a little speck,
And then it seemed a mist;
It moved and moved, and took at last
A certain shape, I wist.

A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!
And still it neared and neared:
As if it dodged a water-sprite,
It plunged and tacked and veered.

With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
We could nor laugh nor wail;
Through utter drought all dumb we stood!
I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,
And cried, A sail! a sail!

With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
Agape they heard me call:
Gramercy! they for joy did grin,
And all at once their breath drew in,
As they were drinking all.

See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more!
Hither to work us weal;
Without a breeze, without a tide,
She steadies with upright keel!

The western wave was all a-flame,
The day was well nigh done!
Almost upon the western wave
Rested the broad bright sun;
When that strange shape drove suddenly
Betwixt us and the sun.

And straight the sun was flecked with bars,
(Heaven's Mother send us grace!)
As if through a dungeon-grate he peered
With broad and burning face.

Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud)
How fast she nears and nears!
Are those her sails that glance in the sun,
Like restless gossameres?

Are those her ribs through which the sun
Did peer, as through a grate?
And is that Woman all her crew?
Is that a Death? and are there two?
Is Death that Woman's mate?

Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.

The naked hulk alongside came,
And the twain were casting dice;
`The game is done! I've won! I've won!'
Quoth she, and whistles thrice.

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out:
At one stride comes the dark;
With far-heard whisper o'er the sea,
Off shot the spectre-bark.

We listened and looked sideways up!
Fear at my heart, as at a cup,
My life-blood seemed to sip!
The stars were dim, and thick the night,
The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white;
From the sails the dew did drip -
Till clomb above the eastern bar
The horned moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip.

One after one, by the star-dogged moon,
Too quick for groan or sigh,
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
And cursed me with his eye.

Four times fifty living men,
(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
They dropped down one by one.

The souls did from their bodies fly, -
They fled to bliss or woe!
And every soul it passed me by,
Like the whizz of my crossbow!"

Part IV

`I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
I fear thy skinny hand!
And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand.

I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.' -
"Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest!
This body dropped not down.

Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie;
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.

I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.

I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came and made
My heart as dry as dust.

I closed my lids, and kept them close,
And the balls like pulses beat;
Forthe sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky,
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet.

The cold sweat melted from their limbs,
Nor rot nor reek did they:
The look with which they looked on me
Had never passed away.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.

The moving moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide:
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside -

Her beams bemocked the sultry main,
Like April hoar-frost spread;
But where the ship's huge shadow lay,
The charmed water burnt alway
A still and awful red.

Beyond the shadow of the ship
I watched the water-snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes.

Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.

O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
And I blessed them unaware.

The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea."
(...)

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Part V

"Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from heaven,
That slid into my soul.

The silly buckets on the deck,
That had so long remained,
I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
And when I awoke, it rained.

My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
My garments all were dank;
Sure I had drunken in my dreams,
And still my body drank.

I moved, and could not feel my limbs:
I was so light -almost
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost.

And soon I heard a roaring wind:
It did not come anear;
But with its sound it shook the sails,
That were so thin and ****.

The upper air burst into life!
And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
To and fro they were hurried about!
And to and fro, and in and out,
The wan stars danced between.

And the coming wind did roar more loud,
And the sails did sigh like sedge;
And the rain poured down from one black cloud;
The moon was at its edge.

The thick black cloud was cleft, and still
The moon was at its side:
Like waters shot from some high crag,
The lightning fell with never a jag,
A river steep and wide.

The loud wind never reached the ship,
Yet now the ship moved on!
Beneath the lightning and the moon
The dead men gave a groan.

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
To have seen those dead men rise.

The helmsman steered, the ship moved on;
Yet never a breeze up blew;
The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do;
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools -
We were a ghastly crew.

The body of my brother's son
Stood by me, knee to knee:
The body and I pulled at one rope,
But he said nought to me."

`I fear thee, ancient Mariner!'
"Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest!
'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,
Which to their corses came again,
But a troop of spirits blest:

For when it dawned -they dropped their arms,
And clustered round the mast;
Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
And from their bodies passed.

Around, around, flew each sweet sound,
Then darted to the sun;
Slowly the sounds came back again,
Now mixed, now one by one.

Sometimes a-dropping from the sky
I heard the skylark sing;
Sometimes all little birds that are,
How they seemed to fill the sea and air
With their sweet jargoning!

And now 'twas like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute;
And now it is an angel's song,
That makes the heavens be mute.

It ceased; yet still the sails made on
A pleasant noise till noon,
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.

Till noon we quietly sailed on,
Yet never a breeze did breathe;
Slowly and smoothly went the ship,
Moved onward from beneath.

Under the keel nine fathom deep,
From the land of mist and snow,
The spirit slid: and it was he
That made the ship to go.
The sails at noon left off their tune,
And the ship stood still also.

The sun, right up above the mast,
Had fixed her to the ocean:
But in a minute she 'gan stir,
With a short uneasy motion -
Backwards and forwards half her length
With a short uneasy motion.

Then like a pawing horse let go,
She made a sudden bound:
It flung the blood into my head,
And I fell down in a swound.

How long in that same fit I lay,
I have not to declare;
But ere my living life returned,
I heard and in my soul discerned
Two voices in the air.

`Is it he?' quoth one, `Is this the man?
By him who died on cross,
With his cruel bow he laid full low
The harmless Albatross.

The spirit who bideth by himself
In the land of mist and snow,
He loved the bird that loved the man
Who shot him with his bow.'

The other was a softer voice,
As soft as honey-dew:
Quoth he, `The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.'
(...)

[Ulmawen]

Part IV

`I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
I fear thy skinny hand!
And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand.

I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.' -
"Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest!
This body dropped not down.

Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie;
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.

I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.

I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came and made
My heart as dry as dust.

I closed my lids, and kept them close,
And the balls like pulses beat;
Forthe sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky,
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet.

The cold sweat melted from their limbs,
Nor rot nor reek did they:
The look with which they looked on me
Had never passed away.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.

The moving moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide:
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside -

Her beams bemocked the sultry main,
Like April hoar-frost spread;
But where the ship's huge shadow lay,
The charmed water burnt alway
A still and awful red.

Beyond the shadow of the ship
I watched the water-snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes.

Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.

O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
And I blessed them unaware.

The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea."

Part V

"Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from heaven,
That slid into my soul.

The silly buckets on the deck,
That had so long remained,
I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
And when I awoke, it rained.

My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
My garments all were dank;
Sure I had drunken in my dreams,
And still my body drank.

I moved, and could not feel my limbs:
I was so light -almost
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost.

And soon I heard a roaring wind:
It did not come anear;
But with its sound it shook the sails,
That were so thin and ****.

The upper air burst into life!
And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
To and fro they were hurried about!
And to and fro, and in and out,
The wan stars danced between.

And the coming wind did roar more loud,
And the sails did sigh like sedge;
And the rain poured down from one black cloud;
The moon was at its edge.

The thick black cloud was cleft, and still
The moon was at its side:
Like waters shot from some high crag,
The lightning fell with never a jag,
A river steep and wide.

The loud wind never reached the ship,
Yet now the ship moved on!
Beneath the lightning and the moon
The dead men gave a groan.

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
To have seen those dead men rise.

The helmsman steered, the ship moved on;
Yet never a breeze up blew;
The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do;
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools -
We were a ghastly crew.

The body of my brother's son
Stood by me, knee to knee:
The body and I pulled at one rope,
But he said nought to me."

`I fear thee, ancient Mariner!'
"Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest!
'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,
Which to their corses came again,
But a troop of spirits blest:

For when it dawned -they dropped their arms,
And clustered round the mast;
Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
And from their bodies passed.

Around, around, flew each sweet sound,
Then darted to the sun;
Slowly the sounds came back again,
Now mixed, now one by one.

Sometimes a-dropping from the sky
I heard the skylark sing;
Sometimes all little birds that are,
How they seemed to fill the sea and air
With their sweet jargoning!

And now 'twas like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute;
And now it is an angel's song,
That makes the heavens be mute.

It ceased; yet still the sails made on
A pleasant noise till noon,
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.

Till noon we quietly sailed on,
Yet never a breeze did breathe;
Slowly and smoothly went the ship,
Moved onward from beneath.

Under the keel nine fathom deep,
From the land of mist and snow,
The spirit slid: and it was he
That made the ship to go.
The sails at noon left off their tune,
And the ship stood still also.

The sun, right up above the mast,
Had fixed her to the ocean:
But in a minute she 'gan stir,
With a short uneasy motion -
Backwards and forwards half her length
With a short uneasy motion.

Then like a pawing horse let go,
She made a sudden bound:
It flung the blood into my head,
And I fell down in a swound.

How long in that same fit I lay,
I have not to declare;
But ere my living life returned,
I heard and in my soul discerned
Two voices in the air.
(...)

[Ulmawen]

(...)
`Is it he?' quoth one, `Is this the man?
By him who died on cross,
With his cruel bow he laid full low
The harmless Albatross.

The spirit who bideth by himself
In the land of mist and snow,
He loved the bird that loved the man
Who shot him with his bow.'

The other was a softer voice,
As soft as honey-dew:
Quoth he, `The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.'

Part VI

First Voice

But tell me, tell me! speak again,
Thy soft response renewing -
What makes that ship drive on so fast?
What is the ocean doing?

Second Voice

Still as a slave before his lord,
The ocean hath no blast;
His great bright eye most silently
Up to the moon is cast -

If he may know which way to go;
For she guides him smooth or grim.
See, brother, see! how graciously
She looketh down on him.

First Voice

But why drives on that ship so fast,
Without or wave or wind?

Second Voice

The air is cut away before,
And closes from behind.

Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high!
Or we shall be belated:
For slow and slow that ship will go,
When the Mariner's trance is abated.

"I woke, and we were sailing on
As in a gentle weather:
'Twas night, calm night, the moon was high;
The dead men stood together.

All stood together on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fixed on me their stony eyes,
That in the moon did glitter.

The pang, the curse, with which they died,
Had never passed away:
I could not draw my eyes from theirs,
Nor turn them up to pray.

And now this spell was snapped: once more
I viewed the ocean green,
And looked far forth, yet little saw
Of what had else been seen -

Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.

But soon there breathed a wind on me,
Nor sound nor motion made:
Its path was not upon the sea,
In ripple or in shade.

It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek
Like a meadow-gale of spring -
It mingled strangely with my fears,
Yet it felt like a welcoming.

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
Yet she sailed softly too:
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze -
On me alone it blew.

Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed
The lighthouse top I see?
Is this the hill? is this the kirk?
Is this mine own country?

We drifted o'er the harbour-bar,
And I with sobs did pray -
O let me be awake, my God!
Or let me sleep alway.

The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So smoothly it was strewn!
And on the bay the moonlight lay,
And the shadow of the moon.

The rock shone bright, the kirk no less,
That stands above the rock:
The moonlight steeped in silentness
The steady weathercock.

And the bay was white with silent light,
Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
In crimson colours came.

A little distance from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turned my eyes upon the deck -
Oh, Christ! what saw I there!

Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat,
And, by the holy rood!
A man all light, a seraph-man,
On every corse there stood.

This seraph-band, each waved his hand:
It was a heavenly sight!
They stood as signals to the land,
Each one a lovely light;

This seraph-band, each waved his hand,
No voice did they impart -
No voice; but oh! the silence sank
Like music on my heart.

But soon I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the Pilot's cheer;
My head was turned perforce away,
And I saw a boat appear.

The Pilot and the Pilot's boy,
I heard them coming fast:
Dear Lord in heaven! it was a joy
The dead men could not blast.

I saw a third -I heard his voice:
It is the Hermit good!
He singeth loud his godly hymns
That he makes in the wood.
He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away
The Albatross's blood."
(...)

[Ulmawen]

(...)
Part VII

"This Hermit good lives in that wood
Which slopes down to the sea.
How loudly his sweet voice he rears!
He loves to talk with marineers
That come from a far country.

He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve -
He hath a cushion plump:
It is the moss that wholly hides
The rotted old oak-stump.

The skiff-boat neared: I heard them talk,
`Why, this is strange, I trow!
Where are those lights so many and fair,
That signal made but now?'

`Strange, by my faith!' the Hermit said -
`And they answered not our cheer!
The planks looked warped! and see those sails,
How thin they are and ****!
I never saw aught like to them,
Unless perchance it were

Brown skeletons of leaves that lag
My forest-brook along;
When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,
That eats the she-wolf's young.'

`Dear Lord! it hath a fiendish look -
(The Pilot made reply)
I am afeared' -`Push on, push on!'
Said the Hermit cheerily.

The boat came closer to the ship,
But I nor spake nor stirred;
The boat came close beneath the ship,
And straight a sound was heard.

Under the water it rumbled on,
Still louder and more dread:
It reached the ship, it split the bay;
The ship went down like lead.

Stunned by that loud and dreadful sound,
Which sky and ocean smote,
Like one that hath been seven days drowned
My body lay afloat;
But swift as dreams, myself I found
Within the Pilot's boat.

Upon the whirl where sank the ship
The boat spun round and round;
And all was still, save that the hill
Was telling of the sound.

I moved my lips -the Pilot shrieked
And fell down in a fit;
The holy Hermit raised his eyes,
And prayed where he did sit.

I took the oars: the Pilot's boy,
Who now doth crazy go,
Laughed loud and long, and all the while
His eyes went to and fro.
`Ha! ha!' quoth he, `full plain I see,
The Devil knows how to row.'

And now, all in my own country,
I stood on the firm land!
The Hermit stepped forth from the boat,
And scarcely he could stand.

O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!
The Hermit crossed his brow.
`Say quick,' quoth he `I bid thee say -
What manner of man art thou?'

Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched
With a woeful agony,
Which forced me to begin my tale;
And then it left me free.

Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns;
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.

I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have strange power of speech;
That moment that his face I see,
I know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I teach.

What loud uproar bursts from that door!
The wedding-guests are there:
But in the garden-bower the bride
And bride-maids singing are;
And hark the little vesper bell,
Which biddeth me to prayer!

O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been
Alone on a wide wide sea:
So lonely 'twas, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.

O sweeter than the marriage-feast,
'Tis sweeter far to me,
To walk together to the kirk
With a goodly company! -

To walk together to the kirk,
And all together pray,
While each to his great Father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
And youths and maidens gay!

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."

The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom's door.

He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.

[snežana stanković]

Ovo je jedna od mojih omiljenih iz „Gradinara“ Rabindranata Tagore.

Čeznem da ti kažem najdublje reči koje ti imam reći; ali se ne usuđujem, strahujući da bi mi se mogla nasmejati.
Zato se smejem sam sebi i odajem tajnu svoju u šali.
Olako uzimam bol svoj, strahujući da bi to mogla ti učiniti.

Čeznem da ti kažem najvernije reči koje ti imam reći; ali se ne usuđujem, strahujući da bi mogla posumnjati u njih.
Zato ih oblačim u neistinu, i govorim suprotno onome što mislim.
Ostavljam bol svoj da izgleda glup, strahujući da bi to mogla ti učiniti.

Čeznem da upotrebim najdragocenije reči što imam za te; ali se ne usuđujem, strahujući da mi se neće vratiti istom merom.
Zato ti dajem ružna imena i hvalim se vojom surovošću.
Zadajem ti bol, bojeći se da nećeš nikada saznati šta je bol.

Čeznem da sedim nemo pored tebe; ali se ne usuđujem, jer bi mi inače srce iskočilo na usta.
Zato brbljam i ćaskam olako, i zatrpavam svoje srce rečima.
Grubo uzimam svoj bol. Strahujući da bi to mogla ti učiniti.

Čeznem da te ostavim zauvek; ali se ne usuđujem, strahujući da bi mogla otkriti moj kukvičluk.
Zato ponosito dižem glavu i dolazim veseo u tvoje društvo.
Neprekidne strele iz tvojih očiju čine da me moj bol večito svež.

[Martok]

Edgar Allan Poe- The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,'

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!'
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!'
Merely this and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
'Tis the wind and nothing more!'

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.'

But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."'

But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.'

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,' I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

[Martok]

`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!

[GoranSTX]

Martok me preduhitrio sa Gavranom, ali ima sigurno mesta za:

Edgar Allan Poe- Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

A od domaćih autora:

Vojislav Ilić- Tibulo

Pred hladni Venerin kip, pod senkom pitome noći,
Tibulo, kvirit mlad, začuđen zastade nemo,
I čudni gledaše lik. Na krilu odmora svoga
Romula večni grad spokojno, tiho je dremo;
A kvirit stoji mlad,

I s čudne statue te sanjive ne svodi oči,
I gleda bajni rad…
I zora sinu već, a on je stojao budan; –
I snova tavna noć raspusti čarobne vlasi,

A on je snevao san; – i prekor iz sna ga trže,
Kroz burni celi grad što tajni zborahu glasi, –
I on je čuo sam:

„Nesrećni Tibulo naš, bogovi neka ga štite!
On ljubi hladni kam”.

[SirDuck]

Rudyard Kipling - If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
Hvala Voji ;)

Milan Rakić - Iskrena pesma

O, sklopi usne, ne govori, ćuti!
Ostavi misli, nek se bujno roje,
I reč nek tvoja ničim ne pomuti
Bezmerno silne osećaje moje.

Ćuti, i pusti da sad žile moje
Zabrekću novim, zanosnim životom,
Da zaboravim da smo tu nas dvoje,
Pred veličanstvom prirode; a potom,

Kad prođe sve, i malaksalo telo
Ponovo padne u običnu čamu,
I život nov i nadahnuće celo,
Nečujno tiho potone u tamu -

Ja ću ti, draga, opet reći tada
Otužnu pesmu o ljubavi, kako
Čeznem i stradam i ljubim te, mada
U tom trenutku ne osećam tako......

A ti ćeš bedna ženo, kao vazda,
Slušati rado ove reči lažne;
I zahvalićeš bogu što te sazda,
I oči će ti biti suzom vlažne.

I gledajući vrh zaspalih njiva
Kako se spušta nema polutama,
Ti nećeš znati što u meni biva, -
Da ja u tebi volim sebe sama,

I moju ljubav naspram tebe, kad me
Obuzme celog silom koju ima,
I svaki živac rastrese i nadme,
I osećaji navale ko plima!

Za taj trenutak života i milja,
Kad zatreperi cela moja snaga,
Neka te srce moje blagosilja!
Al' ne volim te, ne volim te draga!

I zato ću ti uvek reći; Ćuti!
Ostavi dušu, nek spokojno sniva,
Dok kraj nas lišće na drveću žuti,
I tama pada vrh zaspalih njiva.

[Wolverine]

Najlepsi stihovi srpskom rukom napisani. Tacka.

Jovan Jovanovic ZMAJ - Svetli grobovi

Bejaste li, braco moja mlada,
Da l' bejaste vi na groblju kada,
Aj, na groblju, na golemu!
- Ta uvek smo mi na njemu!
Groblje j' zemlja kom se hodi,
Groblje j' voda kom se brodi,
Groblje, vrti i gradine;
Groblja, brda i doline;
Svaka j' stopa
Grob do groba.
Groblje j' spomen doba sviju;
Groblje, knjige sto se stiju; -
Povesnica svih zemalja,
Starostavnik cara, kralja,
I citulja visih slika,
Izbranika, mucenika,
Od pocetka, pamtiveka;
Sve j' to groblje -
Al je i kolevka.

Nema broja, ni imena,
U visinu zvezdam' svima,
Kamo l' broja i spomena
U zemljici grobovima!
Milione progutala j' tama,
Crna tama mnogih tisucleca,
Niko ih se vise i ne seca...
- Na pogdekom uvek gori sveca!
Il' je sveca, il' je ime svetlo,
Il' su dela koja se ne gase,
Pa redove nedoglednog groblja
Svojom zrakom krase.
Ti grobovi,
Stari, novi,
Oni sjaju
Svakom narastaju -
Kad se umlje u proslost udubi,
U tamnini da se ne izgubi;
Kad se pustis u davnine svete,
U davnine i svete i klete,
Da ti mis'o puta ne pomete.
To su vatre doglasnice,
Pruzajuc' se iz daljnih eona,
U povorci onoj dugoj,
Dosvetljujuc jedna drugoj,
Strujom koja napred leti,
Tezec samo jednoj meti.
Pa se tako svetle mlazi-
Pa se vide svetli trazi
Jednog duha raznih doba,
Duha kome nema groba.
- U grob samo srusi kosti,
Strese pep'o koj' mu smeta
Brzem buju visa leta
K uzvisenoj buducnosti.

Ko s' osvrne da pogledi
Bistrim okom i pogledom
Na grobove ove svetle,
- Povesnice dugim redom, -
Mora cuti kako j' zivo,
Kroz vekove, kroz maglinu,
Ded unuku, otac sinu,
Borac borcu dovikiv'o:
"Gde ja stadoh - ti ces poci!"
"Sto ne mogah - ti ces moci!"
"Kud ja nisam - ti ces doci!"
"Sto ja poceh - ti produzi!"
"Jos smo duzni - ti oduzi!" -
To su zbori, to su glasi,
Kojima se proslost krasi,
Sto prodiru kroz svet mracni
Sa grobova onih zracni',
Spajajuci gromkom jekom,
I bozanskom silom nekom,
Spajajuci vek sa vekom
I coveka sa covekom.

Oko svakog svetlog groba
-Bas ka' gore oko zvezda-
Povesnica prica ovo:
Hvatalo se neko kolo,
Kolo mlado, kolo novo,
Novo cvece, stabla stara;
Duse ciste, srca mlada,
Naslednici sveta zara; -
Tu se sleg'o zivot mladi
Da se s grobom razgovara.
"I ti pade, dragi brate!"
- "Nisam, deco, vas dok traje!"
"Je l' ti borba bila teska?"
"Pokusajte, milina je!"
"Sta si hteo? Kud si pos'o?"
- "Tamo gde se stici mora!"
"Zar je vera tako jaka?"
- "Uvek jaca od zlotvora!"
"Malo nas je koj' bi smeli!"
- Al' vas jaka sila krece!"
"Zar ko moze stici celi?"
- "Ko posumnja, nikad nece!" -
"A ko behu oni divi,
Koji su te napred zvali,
Koji su te ojacali,
Koji su ti krila dali?"-
- To bejahu ideali!
Bez njih nema vise leta
Nad oblakom mraka gusta;
Bez njih bi se malaksalo,
Bez njih bi se brzo palo,
Svet bi bio grob bez cveta,
Zivot prazan, - mladost pusta!"

Oko svakog svetlog groba
Prikuplj'o se zivot novi,
Naslednici svetog zara,
Kupili se sokolovi,
Pijuc' dusom svetle zrake-
Jest, tako je, braco draga,
Ti grobovi nisu rake,
Vec kolevke novih snaga!

I vam je, jaoj, pao
Stegonosa dicnog stega-
Al' je sin'o grobak novi:
Vi stojite oko njega.
Tu pogleda brat na brata,
P'onda gore, p'onda u se,
Grudi drkcu, usta cute,
Ali duse razumu se.
Da l' to snaga nice nova?
Daruj, Boze, blagoslova,
Da vas zdruzi bratska sloga,
Zavetnike koji s' kupe
Oko groba Djurinoga!

[mr.marvin]

A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL - William Wordsworth

A SLUMBER did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? - Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!

How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!
How public -- like a Frog --
To tell one's name -- the livelong June --
To an admiring Bog!

Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
-Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

Dulce et Decorum Est -Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.


In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[Red Dragon]

A ja mislio da je kisa dovoljna da se covek ubedaci...:D
Ovo mi prvo padne na pamet.



Laza Kostic - Santa Maria della salute (http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82% D0%B8%D1%9B)

Oprosti, majko sveta, oprosti,
sto nasih gora pozalih bor,
na kom se, ustuk svakoj zlosti,
blazenoj tebi podize dvor;
prezri, nebesnice, vrelo milosti,
sto ti zemaljski sagresi stvor:
Kajan ti ljubim preciste skute,
Santa Maria della Salute.

Zar nije lepse nosit' lepotu,
svodova tvojih postati stub,
nego grejuci svetsku lepotu
u pep'o spalit' srce i lub;
tonut' o brodu, trunut' u plotu,
djavolu jelu a vragu dub?
Zar nije lepse vekovat' u te,
Santa Maria della Salute?

Oprosti, majko, mnogo sam strad'o,
mnoge sam grehe pokaj'o ja;
sve sto je srce snivalo mlado,
sve je to jave slomio ma',
za cim sam cezn'o, cemu se nad'o,
sve je to davno pep'o i pra',
na ugod zivu pakosti zute,
Santa Maria della Salute.

Trovala me je podmuklo, gnjilo,
al' ipak necu nikoga klet';
stagod je muke na meni bilo,
da nikog za to ne krivi svet:
Jer, sto je dusi lomilo krilo,
te joj u jeku dusilo let,
sve je to s ove glave sa lude,
Santa Maria della Salute!

Tad moja vila preda me granu,
lepse je ovaj ne vide vid;
iz crnog mraka divna mi svanu,
k'o pesma slavlja u zorin svit,
svaku mi mahom zaleci ranu,
al' tezoj rani nastade brid:
Sta cu od milja, od muke ljute,
Santa Maria della Salute?

Ona me glednu. U dusu svesnu
nikad jos takav ne sinu gled;
tim bi, sto iz tog pogleda kresnu,
svih vasiona stopila led,
sve mi to nudi za cim god ceznu',
jade pa slade, cemer pa med,
svu svoju dusu, sve svoje zude,
-svu vecnost za te, divni trenute!-
Santa Maria della Salute.

Zar meni jadnom sva ta divota?
Zar meni blago toliko sve?
Zar meni starom, na dnu zivota,
ta zlatna vocka sto sad tek zre?
Oh, slatka vocko, tantalskog roda,
sto nisi meni sazrela pre?
Oprosti meni gresne zalute,
Santa Maria della Salute.

Dve u meni pobise sile,
mozak i srce, pamet i slast.
Dugo su bojak strahovit bile,
k'o besni oluj i stari hrast:
Napokon sile sustase mile,
vijugav mozak odrza vlast,
razlog i zapon pameti hude,
Santa Maria della Salute.

Pamet me stegnu, ja srce stisnu',
utekoh mudro od srece, lud,
utekoh od nje - a ona svisnu.
Pomrca sunce, vecita stud,
gasnuse zvevde, raj u plac briznu,
smak sveta nasta i strasni sud. -
O, svetski slome, o strasni sude,
Santa Maria della Salute!

U srcu slomljen, zbunjen u glavi,
spomen je njezim sveti mi hram.
Tad mi se ona od onud javi,
k'o da se Bog mi pojavi sam:
U dusi bola led mi se kravi,
kroz nju sad vidim, od nje sve znam,
za sto se mudracki mozgovi mute,
Santa Maria della Salute.

Dodje mi u snu. Ne kad je zove
silnih mi zelja navreli roj,
ona mi dodje kad njojzi gove,
tajne su sile sluskinje njoj.
Navek su sa njom pojave nove,
zemnih milina nebeski kroj.
Tako mi do nje prostire pute,
Santa Maria della Salute.

U nas je sve k'o u muza i zene,
samo sto nije briga i rad,
sve su miline, al' nezezene,
strast nam se blazi u rajski hlad;
starija ona sad je od mene,
tamo cu biti dosta joj mlad,
gde svih vremena razlike cute,
Santa Maria della Salute.

A nasa deca pesme su moje,
tih sastanaka veciti trag;
to se ne pise, to se ne poje,
samo sto dusom probije zrak.
To razumemo samo nas dvoje,
to je i raju prinovak drag,
to tek u zanosu proroci slute,
Santa Maria della Salute.

A kad mi dodje da prsne glava
o mog zivota hridovit kraj,
najlepsi san mi postace java,
moj ropac njeno: "Evo me, naj!"
Iz nistavila u slavu slava,
iz beznjenice u raj, u raj!

U raj, u raj, u njezin zagrljaj!
Sve ce se zelje tu da probude,
dusine zice sve da progude,
zadivicemo svetske kolute,
zvezdama cemo pomerit' pute,
suncima zasut' seljanske stude,
da u sve kute zore zarude,
da od miline dusi polude,
Santa Maria della Salute.

[Ketchua]

Ulma, hvala za Kolridza :)...evo mog licnog favorita, nezavrsenog Kubla Khan-a

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me
That with music loud and long
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

[PeTkO]

Mozda je malo glupo sto prekidam ovako lepu temu ovim postom, ali mislim da bi bilo lepse kada bi pesmu stavili u spoiler tag, a sam naslov pesme u poruci, posto mi je trebalo pola sata skrola dok sam dosao do dna strane :)

[zoran845]

Ova je kratka, ali ubija :(. Dakle, pesma koje se ja uvek setim na kraju leta:

Arsen Dedić, Kuća pored mora
Raznesene valima i vjetrom,
tu su tople ruševine ljeta,
na rubu napuštenog mora
i jednog izgubljenog svijeta.

Ničeg nema, ničeg nema
od tebe, od mene...

Ostala je samo prazna kuća,
malo stvari ljetovanja našeg.
Na stolu novine jos leže
sa nekim datumima jula.
Naša ljubav sad se ruši
kao pješčana kula.

Al' još sam uvijek ovdje,
još zagledan u more,
na vratima vile
u kojoj tuga spava,
a kiše su se slile
u cvijetove agava i ljetu je kraj.

Od vremena poezije i mira
ostala je samo prazna kuća.
U noći, okrenuta moru,
sad čeka ljubavnike nove.

Ničeg nema, ničeg nema
od tebe, od mene
u njoj.

[Father Jape]

Pre nego sto podelim s ostalima par meni dragih pesama, voleo bih da ukazem na cinjenicu da na srpskom poema nije sinonim za pesma/parce poezije itd. Poema je na srpskom ono sto je na engleskom narrative poem - књижевно дело епско-лирскога карактера у стиховима, а каткада и у прози (RMS).

Elem, evo par pesama koje volim:

Charles Algernone Swinburne - The Garden of Proserpine

Here, where the world is quiet,
Here, where all trouble seems
Dead winds' and spent waves' riot
In doubtful dreams of dreams;
I watch the green field growing
For reaping folk and sowing,
For harvest-time and mowing,
A sleepy world of streams.

I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.

Here life has death for neighbour,
And far from eye or ear
Wan waves and wet winds labour,
Weak ships and spirits steer;
They drive adrift, and whither
They wot not who make thither;
But no such winds blow hither,
And no such things grow here.

No growth of moor or coppice,
No heather-flower or vine,
But bloomless buds of poppies,
Green grapes of Proserpine,
Pale beds of blowing rushes
Where no leaf blooms or blushes,
Save this whereout she crushes
For dead men deadly wine.

Pale, without name or number,
In fruitless fields of corn,
They bow themselves and slumber
All night till light is born;
And like a soul belated,
In hell and heaven unmated,
By cloud and mist abated
Comes out of darkness morn.
The Return of Persephone, by Frederic Leighton.
The Return of Persephone, by Frederic Leighton.

Though one were strong as seven,
He too with death shall dwell,
Nor wake with wings in heaven,
Nor weep for pains in hell;
Though one were fair as roses,
His beauty clouds and closes;
And well though love reposes,
In the end it is not well.

Pale, beyond porch and portal,
Crowned with calm leaves she stands
Who gathers all things mortal
With cold immortal hands;
Her languid lips are sweeter
Than love's who fears to greet her
To men that mix and meet her
From many times and lands.

She waits for each and other,
She waits for all men born;
Forgets the earth her mother,
The life of fruits and corn;
And spring and seed and swallow
Take wing for her and follow
Where summer song rings hollow
And flowers are put to scorn.

There go the loves that wither,
The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither,
And all disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken,
Blind buds that snows have shaken,
Wild leaves that winds have taken,
Red strays of ruined springs.

We are not sure of sorrow,
And joy was never sure;
To-day will die to-morrow;
Time stoops to no man's lure;
And love, grown faint and fretful,
With lips but half regretful
Sighs, and with eyes forgetful
Weeps that no loves endure.

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Then star nor sun shall waken,
Nor any change of light:
Nor sound of waters shaken,
Nor any sound or sight:
Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,
Nor days nor things diurnal;
Only the sleep eternal
In an eternal night.



Alfred Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade

Half a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
  Some one had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
  Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
  Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
  All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
  Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
  Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
  All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
  Noble six hundred!

[Ulmawen]

...Poema je na srpskom ono sto je na engleskom narrative poem - књижевно дело епско-лирскога карактера у стиховима, а каткада и у прози (RMS).
Ti si treća osoba koja je ovo rekla.;) Ja sam pokušala da zvučim poetično, te sam stoga stavila ovakav naslov teme... Mada, ko želi da ostavi ceo "Paradise lost" u originalu, NP.;)

Moj omiljeni domaći pesnik.;)

Momčilo Nastasijević (http://www.znanje.org/lektire/i22/02/02iv0205/podaci.htm)(1894 - 1938)- Tuga u kamenu

1

Ni reč, ni stih, ni zvuk
tugu moju ne kaza;

A duge sveudilj neke
nebo i zemlju
spaja i spaja luk.

2

I krenem, i rodna kob
sve dublje me koreni.

I kriknem,
i u srce kao nož rođeni zarije se krik.

3

I krvlju tu pa tu
materom u krug.

A svićem sa zorama,
a s večeri setno
nestaje me za gorama.

4

I nemo iz tvari tugom
objavi se drug.

I tugom zacvrkuće tica
i zazeleni lug.

5

I sekira kad ljuto
zaseče dub;

i jagnjetu vuk, - kosti kad mlavi zub;
nemo sve svemu tugom
verni ostane drug.

6

Sloboda robu, - odbegnem daleko,
a sve dublje tu.

I blagoslov što grobu
kolevci prokletstvo neko, -
odužiti dug.

7

Sve zove, -
ostajem.

Korenom u kamenu
tuzi zatvaram krug.

8

Patniku iz tiha srca
to čudno pukne zore cik.

I čudno,
na ramenu sebi,
svetli svoj sagleda lik.

9

Ni reč, ni stih, ni zvuk
tugu moju ne kaza.

A duge sveudilj neke
nebo i zemlju
spaja i spaja luk.


Reči iz osame

1

Ambise prekoračim,
stukne na ravnom tlu noga,

Dnevi svoje zamračim
blesne videlo Boga.

2

U tišinu se oblačim,
tajnom progovara tvar.

Pepeo vetri me veju,
ostane žar.

3

Bezdoman,
topli nudim kut.

Besputan,
daljinama povedem na put.

4

I sudnje me,
i mrem,
a život otvara tek dveri.

Reč svoju nem
kamenu zaveštavam,
i zveri.

5

Bezdetan,
na istinu grem.

Sinovi prate me
i kćeri.


Misao

1

Tišinom čudno
sve mi zasvetli, -
krilata pohodi me ona.

Nerođenih zora
zapoju mi petli;
sa dan iskon-mora
potonula, čujem, bruje zvona.

2

Raduj se,
svemu si spona,
pokoji u tebi svi žive.

I duša
tuzi što sklona;

i prazninom što
dani zasive, -
u pohode to sprema ti se ona.

3

I čudom,
u neprohod me spletu,
putanje isprave se krive;
i radosnica suza
orosi me kam.

4

I kroz golet me, u mahu,
dah zastruji aprila.

U samoći to
ne ostadoh sam:

tajno je kroz potaje moje, znam
noga njena bila.

5

I nespokoji
u pokoj svi ožive.

Sa bezdan sa izvora
poteku vode svete.

Blage od srca srcu
vesti polete.

6

Mreži to, i pauku,
zloslutno što je plete,
prisniva se svila.

Duši to,
svetli za let,
tajno izrastaju krila.

7

Tišinom čudno
sve mi zasvetli, -
krilata pohodi me ona.

nerođenih zora
zapoju mi petli;
sa dna iskon-mora
potonula, čujem, bruje zvona.

[Carl Jonson CJ]

Milutin Bojić
PLAVA GROBNICA

Stojte, galije carske!
Spuštajte krme moćne!
Gazite tihim hodom!
Opelo gordo držim
u doba jeze noćne
nad ovom svetom vodom.

Tu na dnu,
gde školjke san umoran hvata
i na mrtve alge tresetnica pada,
leži groblje hrabrih,
leži brat do brata,
Prometeji nade, apostoli jada.

Zar ne osećate kako more mili,
da ne ruši večni pokoj palih četa?
Iz dubokog jaza mirni dremež čili,
a umornim letom zrak meseca šeta.

To je hram tajanstva i grobnica tužna
za ogromnog mrca, ko naš um beskrajna,
tiha kao ponoć vrh ostrvlja južna,
mračna kao savest hladna i očajna.

Zar ne osećate iz modrih dubina
da pobožnost raste vrh voda prosuta
i vazduhom igra čudna pantomima?
To velika duša pokojnika luta.

Stojte, galije carske!
Na groblju braće moje
zavite crnim trube.
Stražari u svečanom
opelo nek otpoje
tu, gde se vali ljube!

Jer proći će mnoga stoleća, ko pena
što prolazi morem i umre bez znaka,
i doći će nova i velika smena,
da dom sjaja stvara na gomili raka.

Ali ovo groblje, gde je pogrebena
ogromna i strašna tajna epopeje,
kolevka će biti bajke za vremena,
gde će duh da traži svoje korifeje.

Sahranjeni tu su nekadašnji venci
i prolazna radost celog jednog roda.
Zato grob taj leži u talasa senci
izmeđ nedra zemlje i nebeskog svoda.

Stojte, galije carske!
Buktinje nek utrnu,
veslanje umre hujno,
a kad opelo svršim,
klizite u noć crnu
pobožno i nečujno!

Jer hoću da vlada beskrajna tišina
i da mrtvi čuju huk borbene lave,
kako vrućim ključem krv penuša njina
u deci što klikću pod okriljem slave.

Jer tamo, daleko, poprište se žari
ovom istom krvlju što ovde počiva:
Ovde iznad oca pokoj gospodari,
tamo iznad sina povesnica biva.

Zato hoću mira, da opelo služim
bez reči, bez suza i uzdaha mekih,
da miris tamjana i dah praha združim
uz tutnjavu muklu doboša dalekih.

Stojte, galije carske!
U ime svesne pošte
klizite tihim hodom.
Opelo držim,
kakvo ne vide nebo jošte
nad ovom svetom vodom!

[Highlander]

Johan Volfgang Gete - Prometej
Pokrij svoje nebo, Zevse
oblaka tmušom
i kušaj, kao ludo dete
što obezglavljuje čkalj,
svoju snagu na hrašću i bregovima!
Ali mi zemlju moju
moraš ostaviti
i kolibu, koju mi ne podiže ti,
i ognjište moje,
na čijem ognju mi
zavidiš!

Bednijeg ničeg ne znam
pod suncem od vas, bogovi!
Kukavno prehranjujete
žrtvenim porezima
i molitvenim dimom
svoje veličanstvo;
a skapali biste da nisu
prosjaci i deca
punonadežne lude.

Detetom kad bejah
i ne znađah ni kud ni kamo,
obraćao sam zalutali pogled
suncu, kao da nad njim
ima uho da čuje moj vapaj
i srce, kao moje,
da se sažali nevoljnome.

Ko mi pomože
protiv obesti titana?
Ko me od smrti spase,
ko od sužanjstva?
Zar nisi sve to učinilo samo ti,
do svetosti zažareno srce?
A plamtijaše li mlado i dobro,
obmanuto, zahvalnost za spasenje
onome što spava gore?

Ja da te štujem? Zašto?
Jesi li ublažio ikad
bole potištenome?
Jesi li utro ikad
suze skrušenome?
Zar me nije skovalo čovekom
svemoćno vreme
i večni udes,
gospodari i moji i tvoji?

Il' misliš valjda
da mi valja mrzeti život
i bežati u pustinje
što nisu sazreli svi
cvetni snovi?

Evo me gde sedim, stvaram ljude
po svojoj slici,
rod meni ravan,
da trpi, da plače,
da uživa i da se raduje,
i da se ne osvrće na tebe,
kao ni ja!

Stefan Malarme - Labud
Čedni, hitri, lepi, da l' će danas nama
kretnjom pjanog krila razbiti odjednom
taj basen napušten krut koji pod ledom
zaspalih letova sjajna santa slama!

Divni labud pamti da je on pun plama
taj divni, al' zalud žudi za pobedom
jer kraj gde se živi ne opeva redom
kad neplodne zime zablista se čama.

Njegov vrat će stresti smrt beline pune
kroz prostor zadati ptici što ga kune,
al' ne užas zemlje gde mu perje jenja.

Sablast koju čist sjaj tu naznači zalud,
on skrućuje se u hladnom snu prezrenja
kojim se kroz progon izlišni svi Labud.

Šarl Bodler - Himna Lepoti
Lepoto, jesi li od vraga il Boga,
stižeš li iz neba il mračnih dubina?
Zlo i dobro seje tvoj pogled, i stoga
najsličnija su ti neka jaka vina.

U oku tvom sviću sumraci i zore;
rasipaš mirise ko oluja jaka;
a poljupci tvoji melemni pretvore
diva u strašljivca, dete u junaka.

Stižeš li iz bezdna il padaš sa zvezda?
Sudbina, pas veran, gre za tvojom slikom;
radost i jad slepo seješ iz svog gnezda,
vladaš nad svim, račun ne polažeš nikom.

Gaziš po mrtvima, rugajuć se; Užas
spada u ljupkiji deo tvog nakita;
dok razbojništvo, drag, omiljen ukras
na trbuhu tvome pleše i mahnita.

Leptir slepo juri tvojoj sveći: plane
uz prasak, i rekne: Sveti je taj plamen!
A ljubavnik, drhteć nad telom dragane
kao da miluje svoj nadgrobni kamen.

Svejedno stižeš li iz pakla il raja
Lepoto, čudo si tako prosto i kad
pogled tvoj raskrili kapije Beskraja
koji volim, premda ne videh ga nikad!

Od Đavola, Boga, zar je važno? Diva,
Kraljica, Anđeo, Vila, ma šta da si,
činiš - kroz sjaj, ritam, miris - da svet biva
manje gnusan, manje teški zemni časi!

Viljem Batler Jejts - Sećanje
Jednu je krasila lepa glava,
druge dve su imale mio lik,
al ljupkost i lepota su bez moći,
jer šta može planinska trava
osim da čuva prazan oblik
zeca koji u njoj prenoći.

[Ulmawen]

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)- He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

;)

[zone2403]

Nisam bas preterano naklonjen poeziji, ali jos od srednje skole kada sam prvi put procitao ovu pesmu, na mene je ostavila snazan utisak,
Sima Pandurovic - Svetkovina

Sišli smo s uma u sjajan dan,
Providan, dubok, - nama, draga, znan;
I svetkovasmo ocepljenje to
Od muka, sumnje, vremena i sto
Rana što krvave ih vređao je svet:
Ljubavi naše plav i nežan cvet.

I opet sila zgrnulo se seta
U bolnički nam mirisavi vrt;
Posmatra gde se dvoje dragih šeta,
Srećno, i hvale onaj život krt
Što ostavismo. Daleko od njih
Sad smo, a oni žale mir naš tih.

Oni baš ništa nisu znali šta
Dovede tu nas. - U cveću smo išli,
Slaveći strasno osećanja ta,
Zbog kojih lepo sa uma smo sišli.
U novom svetu dobro nam je sad,
A svet o njemu dobro i ne sluti;

Sumnja u ljubav - najteži nam jad -
Mino i čase blažene ne muti.
Iz prošlih dana ljubav i znak njen
- Spojenost srca - ostala nam još
Naš život ovde svetao je tren,
Srdačan, krotak. Onaj život loš

U kome znanci, rodbina ostaju,
Nevinost našeg ne poznaje sveta;
Životno vino, srž nedostaju
Njima, a glava njihova im smeta.
A naših srca jedan isti zvuk
Beleži draži i vremena huk.

Jer mi smo davno, verna draga, - je li? -
Iskidali konce što nas vežu
Za prostor, vreme, tonove i boje,
- Lance života što zveče i stežu;
Jer mi smo možda, sami tako hteli
Rad ljubavi nam i rad sreće svoje.

I gledaju nas zato što idemo
U košuljama belim parkom ovim,
Gde bolnički se miris širi jak;
Ne znaju dražisa životom novim,
Ljubavi naše neumrle znak.
... Gle! očima im trepti rosa nemo...

[Corwin]

Noć skuplja vijeka Plava luna vedrim zrakom u prelesti divno teče
ispod polja zvjezdanije u proljećnu tihu veče,
siplje zrake magičeske, čuvstva tajna neka budi,
te smrtnika žedni pogled u dražesti slatkoj bludi.
Nad njom zv’jezde rojevima brilijantna kola vode,
pod njom kaplje rojevima zažižu se rojne vode;
na grm slavuj usamljeni armoničku pjesnu poje,
mušice se ognjevite ka komete male roje.
Ja zamišljen pred šatorom na šareni ćilim sjedim
i s pogledom vnimatelnim svu divotu ovu gledim.
Čuvstva su mi sad trejazna, a misli se razletile;
krasota mi ova boža razvijala umne sile.
Nego opet k sebe dođi, u ništavno ljudsko stanje,
al’ lišeno svoga trona božestvo sam neko manje;
pretčuvstvijem nekim slatkim hod Dijanin veličavi
dušu mi je napojio – sve njen v’jenac gledim plavi,
O nasljedstvo idejalno, ti nam gojiš besmrtije,
te sa nebom duša ljudska ima svoje snošenije!
Sluh i duša u nadeždi plivajući tanko paze
na livadi dviženija – do njih hitro svi dolaze!
Rasprsne li pupulj cv’jetni ali kane rosa s struka –
sve to sluhu oštrom grmi, kod mene je strašna huka;
zatrepte li tice krila u busenju guste trave,
strecanja me rajska tresu, a vitlenja muče glave.
Trenuć mi je svaki sahat – moje vreme sad ne ide;
sile su mi na opazu, oči bježe svud – da vide.
Dok evo ti divne vile lakim krokom đe mi leti –
zavid’te mi, svi besmrtni, na trenutak ovaj sveti!
Hod je vilin mlogo dični na Avrorin kada šeće,
od srebrnog svoga praga nad proljećem kad se kreće;
zrak je vile mladolike tako krasan ka Atine,
ogledalo i mazanje preziru joj čerte fine.
Ustav’ luno, b’jela kola, produži mi čase mile,
kad su sunce nad Inopom ustaviti mogle vile.
Prelesnicu kako vidim, zagrlim je kv bog veli,
uvedem je pod šatorom k ispunjenju svetoj želji.
Pri zrakama krasne lune, pri svjećici zapaljenoj
plamena se spoji duša ka dušici raskaljenoj
i cjelivi božestveni dušu s dušom dragom sliju.
Ah, cjelivi, boža mana, sve prelesti rajske liju!
Cjelitelni balsam sveti najmirisni aromati
što je nebo zemlji dalo na usne joj stah sisati.
Sovršenstvo tvorenija, tainstvene sile bože,
ništa ljepše nit’ je kada niti od nje stvorit može!
Malena joj usta slatka, a angelski obraščići –
od tisuće što čuvstvujem jednu ne znam sada reći!
Snježana joj prsa okrugla, a strecaju svetim plamom,
dv’je slonove jabučice na njih dube slatkim mamom;
crna kosa na valove niz rajske s igra grudi...
O divoto! Čudo smrtni ere sada ne poludi!
B’jela prsa gordija su pod crnijem valovima
no planina gordeljiva pod vječnijem snjegovima
na izlazak kad je sunca sa ravnine cv’jetne gledim,
kroz mrežicu tanke magle veličinu kad joj sl’jedim.
Igram joj se s jabukama – dva svijeta srećna važe,
k voshištenju besmrtnome lišenika sreće draže;
znoj lagani s njenom kosom s zanešene tarem glave...
Druge sreće, malo važne, za nju bi da, i sve slave.
Ne miču se usta s ustah – cjeliv jedan noći c’jele!
Jošt se sitan ne naljubih vladalice vile b’jele;
svezala se dva pogleda magičeskom slatkom silom,
kao sunce s svojim likom kada leti nad pučinom.
Luna bježi s horizonta i ustupa Febu vladu,
tad iz vida ja izgubim divotnicu moju mladu!

V. P. Dis, Možda spava
Zaboravio sam jutros pesmu jednu ja,
Pesmu jednu u snu sto sam svu noc slusao:
Da je cujem uzalud sam danas kusao,
Kao da je pesma bila sreca moja sva.
Zaboravio sam jutros pesmu jednu ja.

U snu svome nisam znao za budjenja moc,
I da zemlji treba sunca, jutra i zore;
Da u danu gube zvezde bele odore;
Bledi mesec da se krece u umrlu noc.
U snu svome nisam znao za budjenja moc.

Ja sad jedva mogu znati da imadoh san,
I u njemu oci neke, nebo necije,
Neko lice, ne znam kakvo, mozda decije,
Staru pesmu, stare zvezde, neki stari dan.
Ja sad jedva mogu znati da imadoh san.

Ne secam se niceg vise, ni ociju tih:
Kao da je san mi ceo bio od pene,
Il' te oci da su moja dusa van mene,
Ni arije, ni sveg drugog, sto ja nocas snih;
Ne secam se niceg vise, ni ociju tih.

Ali slutim, a slutiti jos znam.
Ja sad slutim za te oci, da su bas one,
Sto me cudno po zivotu vode i gone:
U snu dodju, da me vide, sta li radim sam.
Ali slutim, a slutiti jos jedino znam.

Da me vide dodju oci, i ja vidim tad
I te oci, i tu ljubav, i taj put srece;
Njene oci, njeno lice, njeno prolece
U snu vidim, ali ne znam, sto ne vidim sad.
Da me vide, dodju oci, i ja vidim tad.

Njenu glavu s krunom kose i u kosi cvet,
I njen pogled sto me gleda kao iz cveca,
Sto me gleda, sto mi kaze, da me oseca,
Sto mi brizno pruza odmor i neznosti svet,
Njenu glavu s krunom kose i u kosi cvet.

Ja sad nemam svoju dragu, i njen ne znam glas;
Ne znam mesto na kom zivi ili pociva;
Ne znam zasto nju i san mi java pokriva;
Mozda spava, i grob tuzno neguje joj stas.
Ja sad nemam svoju dragu, i njen ne znam glas.

Mozda spava sa ocima izvan svakog zla,
Izvan stvari, iluzija, izvan zivota,
I s njom spava, nevidjena, njena lepota;
Mozda zivi i doci ce posle ovog sna.
Mozda spava sa ocima izvan svakog zla.

[zone2403]

Kad si spomenuo Disa, setih se, meni, njegove omiljene pesme, Nirvana:



Noćas su me pohodili mrtvi.
Nova groblja i vekovi stari;
Prilazili k meni kao žrtvi,
Kao boji prolaznosti stvari.

Noćas su me pohodila mora,
Sva usahla, bez vala i pene,
Mrtav vetar duvao je s gora,
Trudio se svemir da pokrene.

Noćas me je pohodila sreća
Mrtvih duša, i san mrtve ruže,
Noćas bila sva mrtva proleća:
I mirisi mrtvi svuda kruže.

Noćas ljubav dolazila k meni,
Mrtva ljubav iz sviju vremena,
Zaljubljeni, smrću zagrljeni,
Pod poljupcem mrtvih uspomena.

I sve što je postojalo ikad,
Svoju senku sve što imađaše,
Sve što više javiti se nikad,
Nikad neće - k meni dohođaše.

Tu su bili umrli oblaci,
Mrtvo vreme s istorijom dana,
Tu su bili poginuli zraci:
Svu selenu pritisnu nirvana.

I nirvana imala je tada
Pogled koji nema ljudsko oko:
Bez oblika, bez sreće, bez jada,
Pogled mrtav i prazan duboko.

I taj pogled, k'o kam da je neki,
Padao je na mene i snove,
Na budućnost, na prostor daleki,
Na ideje, i sve misli nove.

Noćas su me pohodili mrtvi,
Nova groblja i vekovi stari;
Prilazili k meni kao žrtvi,
Kao boji prolaznosti stvari.

[vana85]

Dis- Pijanstvo

Ne marim da pijem, al` sam pijan često.
U graji, bez druga, sam, kraj pune čaše.
Zaboravim zemlju, zaboravim mesto
Na kome se jadi i poroci zbraše.

Ne marim da pijem. Al` kad priđe tako
Svet mojih radosti, umoren, i moli
Za mir, za spasenje, za smrt ili pak`o,
Ja se svemu smejem pa me sve i boli.

I pritisne očaj, sam, bez moje volje,
Ceo jedan život, i njime se kreće;
Uzvik ga prolama: "Neće biti bolje,
Nikad, nikad bolje, nikad biti neće."

I ja žalim sebe. Meni nije dano,
Da ja imam zemlju bez ubogih ljudi,
Oči plave, tople kao leto rano,
Život u svetlosti bez mraka i studi.

I želeci da se zaklonim od srama,
Pijem, i zaželim da sam pijan dovek;
Tad ne vidim porok, društvo gde je čama,
Tad ne vidim ni stid što sam i ja čovek.

[Father Jape]

Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

[aerochivija]

Aleksa Šantić - Pretpraznično veče

Sjutra je praznik. Svoju svjetlost meku
Kandilo baca i sobu mi zari.
Sam sam. Iz kuta bije sahat stari,
I gluhi časi neosjetno teku.

Napolju studen. Peć pucka i grije.
Ja ležim. Ruke pod glavom, pa ćutim,
I slušam kako granjem zamrznutim
U moja okna goli orah bije.

Tako na vrata sumornog mi srca
Sjećanje jedno udara i čeka
Ko drug i sabrat, kao duša neka
Što sa mnom plače i u bolu grca.

Negda u take noći, kada otka
Promrzlom granju zima pokrov ledan,
Ova je soba bila ko vrt jedan,
Gdje je ko potok tekla sreća krotka.

Kao i sada, pred ikonom sjaji
Kandila svjetlost. iz ikonostasa
Suh bršljan viri. Lako se talasa
Izmirne pramen i blagoslov taji.

Sva okađena miriše nam soba.
Okolo žute lojane svijeće
Mi, djeca, sjeli kao kakvo vijeće,
Radosni što je već grudanju doba.

Pod tankim velom plavkastoga dima
U peći vatra plamti punim žarom,
I sjajne pruge po ćilimu starom
Veselo baca i treperi njima.

Uvrh, na meku šiljtu, otac sio,
Pružio čibuk, i dim se koluta;
Njegova mis'o nadaleko luta,
I pogled budi sanjiv, blag, i mio.

Uza nj, tek malko na šiljtetu niže,
Ko simbol sreće, naša majka bdije;
Za skori Božić košulje nam šije,
I katkad na nas blage oči diže.

U to bi halka zakucala. "Petar!",
Usklikne otac: "On je zacijelo!
On vazda voli govor i sijelo -
Otvorite mu!" I mi svi, ko vjetar,

Trči, i vrata prijevor izvuci.
I stari susjed, visok kao brijeg,
Tresući s ruha napanuli snijeg,
Javio bi se s fenjerom u ruci.

Svaki mu od nas u zagrljaj hita,
Majka ga krotko susreta i gleda,
A on se javlja, pa do oca sjeda,
I brišuć' čelo za zdravlje ga pita.

Sa novom srećom ograne nam soba!
Na svakom licu sveto, sjajno nešto -
Sučući brke, stari susjed vješto
počo bi priču iz dalekog doba.

I dokle prozor hladna drma ciča,
Mi svaku riječ gutamo nijemi;
Srca nam dršću u radosnoj tremi,
Sve dogod ne bi dovršio čiča.

Zatim bi otac, vedar ko sjaj dana,
Uzeo gusle u žilave ruke,
I glasno počo, uz ganjive zvuke,
Lijepu pjesmu Strahinjića Bana...

Meni je bilo ko da pjesme ove
Svaki stih posta pun behar u rosi,
Pa trepti, sjaje, i meni po kosi
Prosipa meke pahuljice nove...

[aerochivija]

O mili časi, kako ste daleko!
Vi draga lica, iščezla ste davno!
Pusta je soba... Moje srce tavno...
I bez vas više ja sreće ne steko'...

Kandilo i sad pred ikonom tinja,
I sad je pozno predbožičnje doba;
Al' gluha jama sad je moja soba,
A ja list sveo pod bjelinom inja.

Uzalud čekam... U nijemoj sjeni
Nikoga nema. Sam, ko kamen, ćutim.
Samo što orah granjem zamrznutim
U okna bije i javlja se meni...

No dok mi mutni boli srce kose,
Ko studen travku uvrh krša gola,
Iz mojih knjiga, sa prašljiva stola,
Ja čujem šušanj ko viline kose.

Gle! Sad se redom rasklapaju same,
Sve knjige stare, snovi čežnje duge -
Miču se, trepte jedna pokraj druge,
I njihov sumor ko da pada na me...

Sanjam li? Il bi ovo java bila?
Iz rastvorenih listova i strana
Prhnuše lake tice, ko sa grana,
I po sobi mi svud razviše krila...

Sve su svijetle!... Sve u bl'jesku stoje!...
Jedna okolo kandila se vije,
A neka bolno, ko da suze lije,
Pred slikom dršće mrtve majke moje;

Neke bijele, kao ljiljan prvi,
Samo im zlatno meko perje grudi;
Neke sve plave, tek im grlo rudi,
Kao da kanu kap zorine krvi...

Neke mi pale tu na srce svelo,
Pa kril'ma trepte i šušte ko svila;
A jedna lako, vrhom svoga krila,
S cvrkutom toplim dodirnu mi čelo,

Ko da bi htjela zbrisati sjen tuge..
I slušaj! Redom zapjevaše one!...
I glasi dršću, tresu se, i zvone,
Mili i sjajni ko luk mlade duge:

"Ne tuži! S bolom kuda ćeš i gde bi?!
Mi pjesme tvoje, i drugova sviju,
Što svoje duše na zv'jezdama griju, -
Sveta smo živa porodica tebi!

Mi kao rosa na samotne biljke
Padamo tiho na sva srca bona,
I u noć hladnu mnogih miliona
Snosimo tople božije svjetiljke.

Mi združujemo duše ljudi svije'!
Mrtve sa živim vezu naše niti:
I s nama vazda uza te će biti
I oni koje davno trava krije!

Prigrli ova jata blagodatna!
I kada jednom dođe smrti doba,
Naša će suza na kam tvoga groba
Kanuti toplo ko kap sunca zlatna"...

I akord zvoni...Sve u sjaju jačem
Kandilo trepti i sobu mi zari...
Iz kuta muklo bije sahat stari.
Ja sklapam oči i od sreće plačem.

[crazy_LG]

Ђура Јакшић-Отаџбина


И овај камен земље Србије,
Што, претећ сунцу, дере кроз облак,
Суморног чела мрачним боама
О вековечности прича далекој,
Показујући немом мимиком
Образа свога бразде дубоке.

Векова тамних то су трагови,
Те црне боре,мрачне пећине;
А камен овај,ко пирамида
Што се из праха диже у небо,
Костију кршних то је гомила,
Што су у борбо против душмана,
Дедови твоји вољно слагали,
Лепећи крвљу срца рођеног
Мишица својих кости сломљене,
Да унуцима спреме бусију,
Оклен ће некад смло, презирућ,
Душмана чекат чете грабљиве.

И само дотле, до тог камена,
До тог бедема,
Ногом ћеш ступит, можда поганом.
Дрзнеш ли даље?....Чућеш громове
Како тишину земље слободне
Са грмљавином сташном кидају;
Разумећеш их срцем страшљивим
Шта ти смлим гласом говоре,
Па ћеш о стења тврдом камену
Бријане главе теме ћелаво
У заносном страху лупати...
Ал' један израз, једну мисао,
Чућеш у борбе страшној ломњави:

''Отаџбина је ово Србина!...''


(1875)

[dkdnt]

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)- He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

;)

neverovatna pesma.

a evo jedne starije. mnogo starije :D

John Donne
Holy Sonnet 10
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

a evo ga prevod moje devojke i mene ^^
Smrti budi tiha, mada zvahu
Te Moćna, Strašna – a takva nisi –
Jadna Ti, koje srušit' htela si,
A ni mene ne možeš, ne mrehu.
Od mira i sna što na Te liče,
Veće slasti, više moraš dati,
Čak najbolji Tebe će da prati,
Jer smrću tela spas duše niče.
Rob si sudbe, sreće, kralja, jadníka
Otrov, rat i boljku što sputava,
Od čini i maka isto se spava,
Što se boriš? Jača im je ruka.
Posle kratkog sna bićemo večni.
Smrti bit' neće; umrećeš Smrti.

[Father Jape]

Fin prepev, sjajno citanje, nezaboravna pesma:

Sjeti se Barbara (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOC50nIdR78)

[LoneWolf]

Langston Hughes,americki crnac africkog porijekla koji se borio za prava obespravljenih u doba kad se to placalo glavom.
Jednostavnost i iskrenost impresije i ekspresije vinule su ga u sam vrh americkih pjesnika i uprkos boji koze uspio je da se ugnijezdi medju najprobirljivije i najvece elitne pjesnike svoga doba i mnogih buducih generacija pjesnika.


Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
Walkers with the sun and morning,
We are not afraid of night,
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness--
Being walkers with the sun and morning.




I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human rivers
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.




Children, I come back today
To tell you a story of the long dark way
That I had to climb, that I had to know
In order that the race might live and grow.
Look at my face -- dark as the night --
Yet shining like the sun with love's true light.
I am the dark girl who crossed the red sea
Carrying in my body the seed of the free.
I am the woman who worked in the field
Bringing the cotton and the corn to yield.
I am the one who labored as a slave,
Beaten and mistreated for the work that I gave --
Children sold away from me, I'm husband sold, too.
No safety , no love, no respect was I due.
Three hundred years in the deepest South:
But God put a song and a prayer in my mouth .
God put a dream like steel in my soul.
Now, through my children, I'm reaching the goal.
Now, through my children, young and free,
I realized the blessing deed to me.
I couldn't read then. I couldn't write.
I had nothing, back there in the night.
Sometimes, the valley was filled with tears,
But I kept trudging on through the lonely years.
Sometimes, the road was hot with the sun,
But I had to keep on till my work was done: I had to keep on!
No stopping for me -- I was the seed of the coming Free.
I nourished the dream that nothing could smother Deep in my breast --
the Negro mother.
I had only hope then , but now through you, D
ark ones of today, my dreams must come true:
All you dark children in the world out there,
Remember my sweat, my pain, my despair.
Remember my years, heavy with sorrow --
And make of those years a torch for tomorrow.
Make of my pass a road to the light
Out of the darkness, the ignorance, the night.
Lift high my banner out of the dust.
Stand like free men supporting my trust.
Believe in the right, let none push you back.
Remember the whip and the slaver's track.
Remember how the strong in struggle and strife
Still bar you the way, and deny you life --
But march ever forward, breaking down bars.
Look ever upward at the sun and the stars.
Oh, my dark children, may my dreams and my prayers
Impel you forever up the great stairs --
For I will be with you till no white brother
Dares keep down the children of the Negro Mother.

[aerochivija]

Desanka Maksimović (1898 - 1993)
Šumarice, Kragujevac (21. X 1941)


Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka
na brdovitom Balkanu,
umrla je mučeničkom smrću
četa đaka
u jednom danu.

Iste su godine
svi bili rođeni
isto su im tekli školski dani,
na iste svečanosti
zajedno su vođeni,
od istih bolesti svi pelcovani,
i svi umrli u istom danu.

Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka
na brdovitom Balkanu,
umrla je mučeničkom smrću
četa đaka
u jednom danu.

A pedeset i pet minuta
pre smrtnog trena
sedela je u đačkoj klupi
četa malena
i iste zadatke teške
rešavala: "Koliko može
putnik ako ide peške...",
i tako redom.
Misli su im bile pune
istih brojki
i po sveskama u školskoj torbi
besmisleno ležalo je bezbroj
petica i dvojki.

Pregršt istih snova
i istih tajni
rodoljubivih i ljubavnih
stiskalo se u dnu džepova.
I činilo se svakom
da će dugo,
da će vrlo dugo
trčati ispod svoda plava
dok sve zadatke na svetu
ne posvršava.

Bilo je to u nekoj zemlji seljaka
na brdovitom Balkanu,
umrla je junačkom smrću
četa đaka
u istom danu.

Dečaka redovi celi
uzeli su se za ruke
i sa školskog zadnjeg časa
na streljanje pošli mirno,
kao da smrt nije ništa.
Drugova redovi celi
istog časa se uzneli
do večnog boravišta.

Dobrica Erić (1936)
Ја
раб Божји
Србин
са проседом брадом
изјављујем драговољно
кроз ланце и жицу
пред сведоцима
Силом, Муком и Неправдом
да сам крив и да признајем кривицу!

Крив сам што сам неко
а не нико и нетко
Крив сам што у доба општег србобрста
идем у православну цркву
додуше поретко
и што се крстим овако
с три прста!

Крив сам што јесам
а треба да нисам
Крив сам одавно
што стојим усправно
и гледам у небо, уместо у траву
Крив сам што се дрзнух против кривде
крив сам
што опет славим своју крсну славу!

Крив сам што пишем и читам ћирилицом
Крив сам што певам, смејем се и псујем
а понекад и лајем
Крив сам и признајем
да не знам што знам и да знам што не знам

Крив сам, и да завршим
с највећом кривицом
(пре него што се заценем од смеха),
крив сам тврдоглавац
што сам Православац
и Светосавац и што не верујем
у свети злочин и опроштај греха!

Крив сам и грешан
дакле
што постојим
и кад већ постојим и још дрско стојим
што бар не признам да не постојим!

Ако то признам
да сачувам главу
изгубићу часни крст и крсну славу
Ако не признам
црно ми се пише
цео свет ће на моју Земљу да кидише

Руље бивших људи
лопова и гоља
чопори робота и других монструма
кидисаће на моје воћњаке и поља
и на моју белу кућу поред друма
око које као најлепше одиве
цветају трешње, јабуке и шљиве.

Па ево
признајем и то
за спас рода
Ја више не постојим
скините ме с листе
Ја сам од сад само
ваздух, светлост и вода
три елемента која вам користе
А ово што пред вама говори и хода
то је оно што ви од мене створисте!

Моја ружна слика
озверена лика
коју умножавате у вечери и јутра
то је слика ваше свести и подсвести
то нисам ја, споља
то сте ви - изнутра!

Мој душманине са хиљаду руку
с хиљаду слугу и слушкиња лажи
убрао си ми сунце ко јабуку
и радост чисту ко булка у ражи
Моји ће потомци пити јед и чемер
а твоји већ пију горку медовину
за крвав новац којим пуниш ћемер
распродајући моју ђедовину
Усуд ће ти лудачку кошуљу обући
и тада ће се мало разданити
или ће планета од срамоте пући
и све нас у исти амбис сахранити!

Много сте важне
Земљо моја мила
Ти и Твоје сестре
Истина и Правда
чим се на вас дигла оволика сила
чим су на вас зинуле
кривда и неправда.

Руље бивших људи
убица и гоља
чопори робота и других монструма
палацају на твоје воћњаке и поља
и на моју белу кућу поред друма
око које као најлепше одиве
цветају липе, јабуке и шљиве.

Шта ће овде џихадлије
крсташи, фармери
који Ти черече синове и кћери
Мора да су чуле белосветске банде
да имају златна срца
па их ваде
да их пресаде у сопствене груди
не би ли и они тако били људи.

Господо тужиоци
суци и џелати
исписали сте ми своје заповести
по зеницама
најфинијем стаклу
што теже живим, лакше ћу умрети
Зашли сте много у ноћ поодмаклу
али узалуд ћете линчовати
најгостољубивији народ на планети
(због чега ћете горети у паклу)
јер Људско Срце
чудо над чудима
неће да се прими у вашим грудима!

Ми се не плашимо смрти
црне вуге
већ ропског живота и болести дуге
Смрт је честа појава међ нама Србима
као што су пролеће, лето, јесен, зима
И није страшнија
поготову дању
од суше, поплаве, земљотреса, мраза
кад је човек сретне на своме имању
окађене душе и светла образа.

Злонамерници
сити и манити
све ми забранисте у рођеној кући
ал не може ми нико забранити
да певам и да се смејем умирући
а то се вама више не догађа
ни кад свадбујете
ни кад вам се рађа!

Поштедите ме коца и конопца
и разапните ме на врху планина
ко ваши праоци што су мог Праоца
Исуса Христа Назарећанина.

Ја ћу да гледам
а ви зажмурите
иначе ће вам се очи распрснути
од сјаја мог лица
Само, пожурите
што пре ме разапнете
пре ћу васкрснути!

[Packy]

Malo da se osvezi tema.:D
VLADISLAV PETKOVIC - DIS
TAMNICA


To je onaj zivot, gde sam pao i ja
S nevinih daljina, sa ocima zvezda
I sa suzom mojom sto nesvesno sija
I zali, k`o tica oborena gnezda.
To je onaj zivot, gde sam pao i ja

Sa nimalo znanja i bez moje volje,
Nepoznat govoru i nevolji ruznoj.
I ja plakah tada.Ne bese mi bolje.
I ostadoh tako u kolevci tuznoj
Sa nimalo znanja i bez moje volje.

I ne znadoh da mi krv struji i tece,
I da nosim oblik sto se mirno menja,
I da nosim oblik, san lepote, vece
I tisinu blagu k`o dah otkrovenja.
I ne znadoh da mi krv struji i tece,

I da beze zvezde iz mojih ociju,
Da se stvara nebo i svod ovaj sada
I prostor, trajanje za red stvarni sviju,
I da moja glava radja sav svet jada,
I da beze zvezde iz mojih ociju.

Al` begaju zvezde, ostavljaju boje
Mesta i daljinei i viziju jave,
I sad tako zive kao bice moje,
Nevino vezane za san moje glave.
Al` begaju zvezde, ostavljaju boje.

Pri beganju zvezda zemlja je ostala
Za hod mojih nogu iza zivot reci,
I tako je snaga u meni postala,
Snaga koja boli, snaga koja leci.
Pri beganju zvezda zemlja je ostala.

I tu zemlju danas poznao sam i ja
Sa nevinim srcem, al` bez mojih zvezda,
I sa suzom mojom, sto mi i sad sija
I zali k`o tica oborena gnezda.
I tu zemlju danas poznao sam i ja.

Kao stara tajna ja poceh da zivim,
Zakovan za zemlju sto zivotu sluzi,
Da okrecem oci daljinama sivim.
Dok mi venac snova moju glavu kruzi.
Kao stara tajna ja poceh da zivim,

Da osecam sebe u pogledu trava
I noci, i voda, i da slusam bice
I duh moj u svemu kako mocno spava
K`o jedina pesma, jedino otkrice,
Da osecam sebe u pogledu trava

I ociju sto ih vidi moja snaga,
Ociju sto zovu kao glas tisina,
Kao govor suma, kao divna draga
Izgubljenih snova, zaspalih visina.
I ociju sto ih vidi moja snaga.

[aerochivija]

Aleksa Šantić - Ne vjeruj Ne vjeruj u moje stihove i rime
Kad ti kažu, draga, da te silno volim,
U trenutku svakom da se za te molim
I da ti u stabla urezujem ime –

Ne vjeruj! No kasno, kad se mjesec javi
I prelije srmom vrh modrijeh krša,
Tamo gdje u grmu proljeće leprša
I gdje slatko spava naš jorgovan plavi,

Dođi, čekaću te! U časima tijem,
Kad na grudi moje priljubiš se čvršće,
Osjetiš li, draga, da mi tijelo dršće,
I da silno gorim ognjevima svijem,

Tada vjeruj meni, i ne pitaj više!
Jer istinska ljubav za riječi ne zna;
Ona samo plamti, silna, neoprezna,
Niti mari, draga, da stihove piše!

[aerochivija]

Jovan Dučić - Moja ljubav Sva je moja ljubav ispunjena tobom,
Kao tamna gora studenom tišinom;
Kao morsko bezdno neprovidnom tminom;
Kao večni pokret nevidljivim dobom.

I tako beskrajna, i silna, i kobna,
Tečeš mojom krvlju. Žena ili mašta?
Ali, tvoga daha prepuno je svašta,
Svugde si prisutna, svemu istodobna.

Kad pobele zvezde, u suton, nad lugom,
Rađaš se u meni kao sunce noći,
I u mome telu drhtiš u samoći,
Raspaljena ognjem ili smrzla tugom.

Na tvom tamnom moru lepote i kobi,
Celo moje biće to je trepet sene;
O, ljubljena ženo, silnija od mene -
Ti strujiš kroz moje vene u sve dobi.

Kao mračna tajna ležiš u dnu mene,
I moj glas je eho tvog ćutanja.Ja te
Ni ne vidim gde si, a sve druge sate
Od tebe su moje oči zasenjene.

[Vuckovic Veljko]

Meni izuzetno draga pjesma
Johan Volfgang Gete (prevod: Aleksa Šantić)

BAUK- VILINSKI KRALJ

Ko to jezdi tako pozno kroz noć i vetar taj?
To otac sa čedom svojim kroz pusti jaše kraj
Dok vije vihor besni i strašna seče stud,
On dete svoje grli, o toplu greje grud.

Što sine skrivaš tako lice i pogled svoj?
Bauka zar ne vidiš, oče, u noći toj?
Bauka, krunu onu i njegov dugi skut?
To sine, noćne magle prelaze neba put.

" O drago čedo, hodi i podji samnom ti!
Prekrasne igre mnoge zajedno ćemo igrati,
Po obalama cveće šareno ćemo brat'
Majka će moja tebi zlaćeno ruho dat."

O oče, zar ne čuješ šta zbori bauk taj,
Kako me tiho zove i mami u svoj kraj?
Smiri se, čedo moje, to nije bio glas
Iz suhog lišća vetar pozdravlja šumom nas.

"Hoćeš li, slatko čedo, hoćeš li kraju mom?
Tebe će moje kćeri paziti ljubavlju svom
One će noću igrat' lagani tanac svoj
I ljuljaće te brižno i pevat' slatki poj"

O oče, zar ne vidiš otud u onaj mrak
Da baukove kćeri rukom mi daju znak?
Da čedo moje, vidim, al' tebe vara gled
To noćni vetar starih povija vrba red.

"Ja volim čedo tebe i lice što ti sja,
Nećeš li milom, silom odneću tebe ja!"
O oče, on me hvata, bauk me grabi sad,
Bauk mi,oče, evo zadade bol i jad!

Dubokom prožet jezom otac uspori gred
U naručju mu sinak od bola bled,
A kad je pred dom stig'o s mukom i jadom svim,
Mrtvo čedo bilo na grud'ma njegovim.

[Guardian]

Ova pesma, svakako spada u poeziju.....

Pink Floyd - Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

:ciao:

[SirDuck]

Heh, svaka njihova može da se svrsta ovde ;)

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now theres a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the
Steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend,
You martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the
Steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper,
You prisoner, and shine!

You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when youre on the street
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.

And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye, and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
Youll get the chance to put the knife in.

You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know its going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end youll pack, fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer.

And when you loose control, youll reap the harvest that youve sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And its too late to loose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down alone
Dragged down by the stone.

I gotta admit that Im a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if Im just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake of this creeping malaise
If I dont stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?

Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyones expendable and no-one had a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And you believe at heart, everyones a killer.

Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a seat in the stand
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone.

[=FI=Ghost]

Izet Sarajlić - Rođeni '23., streljani '42.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZYhghUJNzc

[Mithrandir]

Ta, nemojte Pink Floyd ovde! Ako ima neka tema za lyrics... Cisto da ne pocnemo da pisemo o svakim lyrics koje smatramo poezijom (ima ih dosta) :qliranje:



Нирвана
-Владислав Петковић Дис-

Ноћас су ме походили мртви,
Нова гробља и векови стари;
Прилазили к мени као жртви,
Као боји пролазности ствари.

Ноћас су ме походила мора,
Сва усахла, без вала и пене,
Мртав ветар дувао је с гора,
Трудио се свемир да покрене.

Ноћас ме је походила срећа
Мртвих душа, и сан мртве руже,
Ноћас била сва мртва пролећа:
И мириси мртви свуда круже.

Ноћас љубав долазила к мени,
Мртва љубав из свију времена,
Заљубљени, смрћу загрљени,
Под пољупцем мртвих успомена.

И све што је постојало икад,
Своју сенку све што имађаше,
Све што више јавити се никад,
Никад неће - к мени дохођаше.

Ту су били умрли облаци,
Мртво време с историјом дана,
Ту су били погинули зраци:
Сву селену притисну нирвана.

И нирвана имала је тада
Поглед који нема људско око:
Без облика, без среће, без јада,
Поглед мртав и празан дубоко.

И тај поглед, к'о да је кам неки,
Падао је на мене и снове,
На будућност, на простор далеки,
На идеје, и све мисли нове.

Ноћас су ме походили мртви,
Нова гробља и векови стари;
Прилазили к мени као жртви,
Као боји пролазности ствари.




Edit: Prodjoh na brzinu kroz thread da vidim da neko nije postavio vec, nisam video... Medjutim, u drugom "prolasku" sam nasao. A bas sam se potrudio :(
No matter, fantasticna pesma, zasluzuje repost!

[SirDuck]

Vladislav Petković- Dis
Možda spava


Zaboravio sam jutros pesmu jednu ja,
Pesmu jednu u snu što sam svu noć slušao:
Da je čujem uzalud sam danas kušao,
Kao da je pesma bila sreća moja sva.
Zaboravio sam jutros pesmu jednu ja.

U snu svome nisam znao za buđenja moć,
I da zemlji treba sunca, jutra i zore;
Da u danu gube zvezde bele odore;
Bledi mesec da se kreće u umrlu noć.
U snu svome nisam znao za buđenja moć.

Ja sad jedva mogu znati da imadoh san,
I u njemu oči neke, nebo nečije,
Neko lice, ne znam kakvo, možda dečije,
Staru pesmu, stare zvezde, neki stari dan.
Ja sad jedva mogu znati da imadoh san.

Ne sećam se ničeg više, ni očiju tih:
Kao da je san mi ceo bio od pene,
Il' te oči da su moja duša van mene,
Ni arije, ni sveg drugog, što ja noćas snih;
Ne sećam se ničeg više, ni očiju tih.

Ali slutim, a slutiti još znam.
Ja sad slutim za te oči, da su baš one,
Što me čudno po životu vode i gone:
U snu dođu, da me vide, šta li radim sam.
Ali slutim, a slutiti još jedino znam.

Da me vide dođu oči, i ja vidim tad
I te oči, i tu ljubav, i taj put sreće;
Njene oči, njeno lice, njeno proleće
U snu vidim, ali ne znam, što ne vidim sad.
Da me vide, dođu oči, i ja vidim tad.

Njenu glavu s krunom kose i u kosi cvet,
I njen pogled što me gleda kao iz cveća,
Što me gleda, što mi kaže, da me oseća,
Što mi brižno pruža odmor i nežnosti svet,
Njenu glavu s krunom kose i u kosi cvet.

Ja sad nemam svoju dragu, i njen ne znam glas;
Ne znam mesto na kom živi ili počiva;
Ne znam zašto nju i san mi java pokriva;
Možda spava, i grob tužno neguje joj stas.
Ja sad nemam svoju dragu, i njen ne znam glas.

Možda spava sa očima izvan svakog zla,
Izvan stvari, iluzija, izvan života,
I s njom spava, neviđena, njena lepota;
Možda živi i doći će posle ovog sna.
Možda spava sa očima izvan svakog zla.

[Ketchua]

Gaddemit, zašto je ova tema mrtva?
Thread Necromancer to the rescue!:D

Hough three men dwell on Flannan Isle
To keep the lamp alight,
As we steer'd under the lee, we caught
No glimmer through the night!

A passing ship at dawn had brought
The news; and quickly we set sail,
To find out what strange thing might all
The keepers of the deep-sea light.

The winter day broke blue and bright,
With glancing sun and glancing spray,
As o'er the swell our boat made way,
As gallant as a gull in flight.

But, as we near'd the lonely Isle;
And look'd up at the naked height;
And saw the lighthouse towering white,
With blinded lantern, that all night
Had never shot a spark
Of comfort through the dark,
So ghastly in the cold sunlight
It seem'd, that we were struck the while
With wonder all too dread for words.

And, as into the tiny creek
We stole beneath the hanging crag,
We saw three queer, black, ugly birds--
Too big, by far, in my belief,
For guillemot or shag--
Like seamen sitting bold upright
Upon a half-tide reef:
But, as we near'd, they plunged from sight,
Without a sound, or spurt of white.

And still too mazed to speak,
We landed; and made fast the boat;
And climb'd the track in single file,
Each wishing he was safe afloat,
On any sea, however far,
So it be far from Flannan Isle:
And still we seem'd to climb, and climb,
As though we'd lost all count of time,
And so must climb for evermore.
Yet, all too soon, we reached the door--
The black, sun-blister'd lighthouse door,
That gaped for us ajar.

As, on the threshold, for a spell,
We paused, we seem'd to breathe the smell
Of limewash and of tar,
Familiar as our daily breath,
As though 'twere some strange scent of death:
And so, yet wondering, side by side,
We stood a moment, still tongue-tied:
And each with black foreboding eyed
The door, ere we should fling it wide,
To leave the sunlight for the gloom:
Till, plucking courage up, at last,
Hard on each other's heels we pass'd
Into the living-room.

Yet, as we crowded through the door,
We only saw a table, spread
For dinner, meat and cheese and bread;
But all untouch'd; and no one there:
As though, when they sat down to eat,
Ere they could even taste,
Alarm had come; and they in haste
Had risen and left the bread and meat:
For on the table-head a chair
Lay tumbled on the floor.
We listen'd; but we only heard
The feeble cheeping of a bird
That starved upon its perch:
And, listening still, without a word,
We set about our hopeless search.

We hunted high, we hunted low,
And soon ransack'd the empty house;
Then o'er the Island, to and fro,
We ranged, to listen and to look
In every cranny, cleft or nook
That might have hid a bird or mouse:
But, though we searched from shore to shore,
We found no sign in any place:
And soon again stood face to face
Before the gaping door:
And stole into the room once more
As frighten'd children steal.

Aye: though we hunted high and low,
And hunted everywhere,
Of the three men's fate we found no trace
Of any kind in any place,
But a door ajar, and an untouch'd meal,
And an overtoppled chair.
And, as we listen'd in the gloom
Of that forsaken living-room--
O chill clutch on our breath--
We thought how ill-chance came to all
Who kept the Flannan Light:
And how the rock had been the death
Of many a likely lad:
How six had come to a sudden end
And three had gone stark mad:
And one whom we'd all known as friend
Had leapt from the lantern one still night,
And fallen dead by the lighthouse wall:
And long we thought
On the three we sought,
And of what might yet befall.

Like curs a glance has brought to heel,
We listen'd, flinching there:
And look'd, and look'd, on the untouch'd meal
And the overtoppled chair.

We seem'd to stand for an endless while,
Though still no word was said,
Three men alive on Flannan Isle,
Who thought on three men dead.

[Equilibrium]

Na Gazi-Mestanu

Silni okopnici, bez mane i straha,
Hladni k'o vaš oklop i pogleda mrka,
Vi jurnuste tada u oblaku praha,
I nastade tresak i krvava trka.

Zaljuljano carstvo survalo se s vama.
Kad oluja prođe vrh Kosova ravna,
Kosovo postade nepregledna jama,
Kosturnica strašna i porazom slavna.

Kosovski junaci, zasluga je vaša
Što posljednji beste. U krvavoj stravi,
Kada trulo carstvo oružja se masa,
Svaki leš je svesna žrtva, junak pravi

Danas nam kažu, deci ovog veka,
Da smo nedostojni istorije naše,
Da nas zahvatila zapadnjačka reka,
I da nam se duše opasnosti plaše.

Dobra zemljo moja, lažu, Ko te voli
Danas, taj te voli. Jer zna da si mati;
Jer pre nas ni polja ni krševi goli
Ne mogaše drugom svesnu ljubav dati.

I danas, kad dođe do poslednjeg boja,
Neozaren starog oreola sjajem,
Ja ću dati život, otadžbino moja,
Znajući šta dajem i zašto ga dajem...

Meni licno omiljena pesma i jedna od boljih u celokupnoj srpskoj poeziji.

[--ComputerBoy--]

Pesma ima fenomenalne reci, melodija je skroz u drugom planu...

Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave - Where the wild roses grow

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day

From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
As she stared in my eyes and smiled
For her lips were the colour of the roses
They grew down the river, all bloody and wild

When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped the tears that ran down my face

On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, 'Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?'

On the second day he came with a single rose
Said: 'Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?'
I nodded my head, as I layed on the bed
He said, 'If I show you the roses will you follow?'

On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
As I kissed her goodbye, I said, 'All beauty must die'
And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth



Vladimir Majakovski - Oblak u pantalonama

Misao vašu, što mašta na omekšalom mozgu,
k'o lakej na ma masnoj sofi, od sala nadut,
dražiću dronjcima srca, okrvavljenim grozno,
sit narugavši se, bezočan i ljut.

Ja u duši nemam nijedne sede vlasi,
ni staračke nežnosti nema u njoj!
Svet sam zaglušio snagom svog glasa,
dvadesetdvogodišnjak - idem,
lepotan, svoj.

Nežni!
Vi ljubav stavljate na violinu.
Na talambase je mećete, grube.
A ne možete izvrnuti svoju kožurinu,
tako da još svuda sve samih usana bude.

Dođite u kafanu da se naučite -
u haljini od batista prava,
pristojna činovnica anđeoske lige.
I koja usne spokojno prelistava,
k'o kuvarica stranice svoje knjige.

Ako hoćete, od mesa besan ću da režim
- i ko nebo menjajući tonove -
ako hoćete, biću besprekorno nežan,
ne čovek, već - oblak u pantalonama!

Ne verujem da postoji cvetna Nica!
Opet se proslavljaju pomoću mene ljudi,
uparloženi kao bolnica,
i, k'o poslovica otrcane žene.

[King James]

Evo jedne divne, srceparajuce, pesme.


Jeff Hanneman - Angel of Death

Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The way that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life
Forced in
Like cattle
You run
Stripped of
Your life's worth
Human mice, for the Angel of Death
Four hundred thousand more to die

Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood
Destroying, without mercy
To benefit the Aryan race
Surgery, with no anesthesia
Feel the knife pierce you intensely
Inferior, no use to mankind
Strapped down screaming out to die

Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher,
Angel of Death

Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
Burning flesh, drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil
Frigid cold, cracks your limbs
How long can you last
In this frozen water burial?
Sewn together, joining heads
Just a matter of time
'Til you rip yourselves apart
Millions laid out in their
Crowded tombs
Sickening ways to achieve
The holocaust

Seas of blood, bury life
Smell your death as it burns
Deep inside of you
Abacinate, eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of
Your wide awake nightmare
Wings of pain, reach out for you
His face of death staring down,
Your blood running cold
Injecting cells, dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of
The mutants he's creating
Pathetic harmless victims
Left to die
Rancid Angel of Death
Flying free

(LEADS: HANNEMAN, KING, HANNEMAN, KING, HANNEMAN)

Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher,
Angel of Death

Angel of Death

[M1L0SH]

Evo jedne divne, srceparajuce, pesme.


Jeff Hanneman - Angel of Death

Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The way that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life
Forced in
Like cattle
You run
Stripped of
Your life's worth
Human mice, for the Angel of Death
Four hundred thousand more to die

Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood
Destroying, without mercy
To benefit the Aryan race
Surgery, with no anesthesia
Feel the knife pierce you intensely
Inferior, no use to mankind
Strapped down screaming out to die

Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher,
Angel of Death

Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
Burning flesh, drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil
Frigid cold, cracks your limbs
How long can you last
In this frozen water burial?
Sewn together, joining heads
Just a matter of time
'Til you rip yourselves apart
Millions laid out in their
Crowded tombs
Sickening ways to achieve
The holocaust

Seas of blood, bury life
Smell your death as it burns
Deep inside of you
Abacinate, eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of
Your wide awake nightmare
Wings of pain, reach out for you
His face of death staring down,
Your blood running cold
Injecting cells, dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of
The mutants he's creating
Pathetic harmless victims
Left to die
Rancid Angel of Death
Flying free

(LEADS: HANNEMAN, KING, HANNEMAN, KING, HANNEMAN)

Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher,
Angel of Death

Angel of Death

:nov_guita Ali mislim da si promasio temu :rofl:

[Sun Tzu]

Vidim ima dosta Disovih pesama, ali niko ne spomenu ovu:
Razvilo se crno vreme opadanja,
Nabujao šljam i razvrat i poroci,
Podig'o se truli zadah propadanja,
Umrli su svi heroji i proroci.
Razvilo se crno vreme opadanja.

Progledale sve jazbine i kanali,
Na visoko podigli se sutereni,
Svi podmukli, svi prokleti i svi mali
Postali su danas naši suvereni.
Progledale sve jazbine i kanali.

Pokradeni svi hramovi i ćivoti,
Ismejane sve vrline i poštenje,
Poniženi svi grobovi i životi,
Uprljano i opelo i krštenje.
Pokradeni svi hramovi i ćivoti.

Zakovana petvekovna zvona bune,
Pobegao duh jedinstva i bog rata;
Obesismo sve praznike i tribune,
Gojimo se od grehova i od blata.
Zakovana petvekovna zvona bune.

Od pandura stvorili smo velikaše,
Dostojanstva podeliše idioti,
Lopovi nam izrađuju bogataše,
Mračne duše nazvaše se patrioti.
Od pandura stvorili smo velikaše.

Svoju mudrost rastočismo na izbore,
Svoju hrabrost na podvale i obede,
Budućnosti zatrovasmo sve izvore,
A poraze proglasismo za pobede.
Svoju mudrost rastočismo na izbore.

Mesto svetle istorije i grobova,
Vaskrsli smo sve pigmeje i repove;
Od nesrećne braće naše, od robova,
Zatvorismo svoje oči i džepove.
Mesto svetle istorije i grobova

Ostala nam još prašina na hartiji,
K'o jedina uspomena na džinove;
Sad svu slavu pronađosmo u partiji,
Pir poruge dohvatio sve sinove.
Ostala nam još prašina na hartiji.

Pod sramotom živi naše pokolenje,
Ne čuju se ni protesti ni jauci;
Pod sramotom živi naše javno mnenje,
Naraštaji, koji sišu k'o pauci.
Pod sramotom živi naše pokolenje.

Pomrčina pritisnula naše dane,
Ne vidi se jadna naša zemlja huda;
Al' kad požar poduhvati na sve strane,
Kuda ćemo od svetlosti i od suda!
Pomrčina pritisnula naše dane.