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BIOGRAPHY: Verica Tadić, lives, Serbia. Published the 13th book. It is represented in thirty anthologies. She won several literary awards, for poetry, aphorisms, essays, and stories, in her country. She is the laureate of the Naji Naaman Foundation, “Honor prizes (for complete works)”, from Lebanon, for 2018. She is an honorary member of the “Maison Naaman pour la Culture”, from Lebanon, since 2018.
She won the third prize at the International competition “Zheng Nian Cup”, in China, 2023 (for the literary essay).
She is the honorary ambassador of Femineartfest Festival, for 2021, in Istanbul, Turkey, 2021.
Her poetry has been translated into several foreign languages.
SHELLS FROM ITHACA
The gulls
Of soul
Spread
Their wings
At
The open sea
With you
They will fly away
To be
Your sails
In the storms
Soft
Feathers
In
The pillow
In the step
I will
Plant
Olives
To
Smell
Of Ithaca
If
Unknown
Ships
Sail in
In
Shells
Below rocks
I will keep
Fidelity
LA FORTUNE
Two halves
Have been searching
For each other
For centuries
They
Are attracted
By the same
Smell
They recognize
Themselves
By it
If they
Find each other
Stars
Will dance
On the blue
Trapeze
Angels will
Walk
On toes
Through
The harmony
On
The wedding
Cake
New
Moon
Will
Write down
The date
HEART FOR TWO HEAVENS
If a man were always to another man
What he sometimes is
The purest word on the lips,
A book over books,
Golden reflection of joy in the eyes,
A sunny day in thoughts,
The chord of tenderness in voice,
The torch of love in the darkness of life,
Then the Earth would have two heavens:
Human and divine.
To stars, angels
And saints from the divine sphere
The human heart would be another heaven
