TATJANA TOMIC THE GENTLE SOUL POET FROM BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA



Tatjana Tomic, poet and graduate librarian, lives in Gradacac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she works as a school librarian. She has published poetry, haiku, short stories and literary criticism in numerous cultural and literary magazines. Her work is represented in more than hundred and fifty international collections and anthologies of poetry and short stories in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Balkan, Africa and Australia. Her poetry was translated to English, French, Macedonian, Greek and Romani. For her work she received numerous international awards and recognitions, such as: Second Prize at the International Mesopotamia Festival 2019 (Belgrade, Serbia, 2019); Award for the best foreign author of the event at the Fourth Poetic Manifesto "The Ohrid Poetic Pearl" (Ohrid, Northern Macedonia, 2019); Special recognitions "Orpheus scroll" at the International Poetry Meetings "Orpheus on the Danube" (Kostolac, 2018; 2019; 2021); Third Prize for the Haiku Cycle at the Fourth International Contest "Poet and Earthquake" (Belgrade, Serbia, 2017)...She is an author of book of poetry „Lako je biti Rebeka“.

POEMS BY TATJANA TOMIĆ

SRCE VASIONE

Kada si uplašen, mali,
u ljušturu straha uvučen,
prinesen ognju bolesti što pustoši,
šta znače riječi utješne
i ruka prijateljska, meka,
kad put je, čini se, isti?

Horde kužnih promiču ćutke,
stranputice zalutalih duša
čine se tako vrletnim
da ne možeš im prići...

Velika srca kad se otvore,
ljubavlju vasione zadoje
sve stranputice i bespuća;
užas odlaska ublaže
svjetlošću spoznaje
da nismo tek pusta ostrva,
neznani grobovi,
već dio smo neba, zemlje....

Lakše se odlazi,
tvrdi moja baka,
kad u plavetnoj auri vječnosti
umilno lice dobrote se smiješi.

PAUK

Crnpurast maestro
leptirast od sna,
zlatnu mrežu plete

krivudavo pustopašnim
bedemima stvarnosti.

Utonuo naizgled,
tek malo zanesen,

ne uočava
prijeteći ponor
rušilačkog dna
niti
cvrkutav zov besmisla
oličen u liku
bezazlenog cvrčka
. Dok ljepljive strune
nostalgično bruje ritmom
posmrtnih akorda,

osviješten krilati svijet
panično odzvanja strahom
usnulog djeteta.

Potom,
mahovina zaborava
potpuno zastire
usnuli snježni predio.

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