Vinko Kalinic Poems

In this terribly smart world
I decided long time ago to remain lunatic
I said, let's be at least one
who everyone was laughing at
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See, just like that, we woke up one morning
not even thinking about what was happening yesterday
and what could really be tomorrow
on some wet ground, beneath the naked stars
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you ask me: why I love you? yes, you? to me absolutely unknown being? but you don't ask me how deep are those eyes of yours? and how can a living man not feel what burns inside those eyes? so festive. and warm.
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See, how I love you: like birds
which get on the trip over the oceans
not counting the time and the distance
not even how much energy they would need
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I've dreamt of dreaming 'bout you
And in the core of that dream
There I stood

The dream was blank
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tell all those who you will love after me that your eyes have already conquered the world once. and also that your hands have split the ocean, dividing it in two.
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You live inside my head
and I know that
I even remember the moment
when you stopped to be a woman
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by Vinko Kalinić

I don't need a title
nor the body of the poem
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I can not write anything tonight.

As the moon and the stars and the whole sky
on this night are nothing else
but cosmic panthomimes
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- To Dina, my sister

When I say out you name, volcanos thunder in the earth bosoms
the time stops, the rain bursts and clouds go numb
in some meadow - long, immense -
far away from the world, from people common and quotidian
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