Poetry

written by Croatian students

I LOVED SOMEONE

I loved someone deep in my heart,
He seemed to me so nice and smart.
I loved him deeply so very long,
I thought that he could do nothing wrong.

My heart was full of hope each day,
I wanted we go together the same way.
He played with me the games of dream,
I thought my life was like a fresh stream.

I thought our love was bright and true,
Like the ocean wide, like the sky blue.
I didn't know that something could hurt,
I didn't know his love could be burnt.

But he was so nice and sweet for a while,
I didn't know that such love could die.
I believed our love would never end,
He was so nice, sometimes I couldn't stand.

One day he came and wasn't the same,
Smiling he even asked me for my name.
I thought he was joking like in the past,
But that was the end, we couldn't last.



MEETING YOU

I will meet you in the shadows of an oak tree,
That grows in the plain near my hometown.
You will take me with you and we will be free.

Free to touch the leaves, the stars and the sky,
Free to live and run across the plain.
Free to see the tree of love growing in your eye.

I will meet you at the end of the river,
That flows quietly near my hometown.
I will take you with me and we'll be one dreamer.

I will meet you in the green, lovely shadows,
One stormy, stuffy summer afternoon.
You will take me with you into the meadows.

Meeting you, meeting me is only in my dreams,
These are the birds hiding in the old oak tree.
This is my wish, listen, through the leaves it streams.

by Ena (Croatia), illustration Katerina (Russia)

In My Neighborhood

There is a boy
In my neighborhood.
His name is Joy
He lives in my childhood.

We both love spring
Bikes, rain and games.
We both have one wing
And call loudly our names.

He says I'm a bird
That sings early and late.
I say he's a wierd
That breaks my garden gate.

Valentina Perkovic (Croatia)

ONCE UPON A TIME

I travel over the sky each night
seeking for the beauty and peace.
Down here nothing is right
the meteors are falling without cease.

The planets in the system
are in their age of autumn.
They are unease and angry
don't want their own anthem.

Once upon a time I was a star
the shinest one in the night sky.
I used to play my heaven guitar
hoping you never say goodbye.

Close your eyes, make a wish
and come to me in dreams.
This tune and song won't finish
until I catch the moonlight beams.

Anka Gavran (Croatia)

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