Glorjana Veber [Slovenia]

 

silence
 
sometimes a lot of silence is needed
for me to wake up between shadow and soul
even in this century the lantern flickers
and I'm finally still
the moon and the river accompany our walk
everything is left to its own
 
even this century walks
and again we return to the place
where we are and are not
for me it's enough that I'm close
it resembles the space of two souls
 
nearby is the sea which is not a wall
and the night shows horizon beyond the sight
the seagulls wave at us and I surrender into voice
 
the wild horizon and vastness
incomprehensible and uninhabited light
frightening love and the mountains
maintain the height
everything here
is turned inwards
 
people leave their houses every day
and they return
this century
and the silence within us

 
the sky continues
 
the best are the days when nothing happens
I inhabit the silence
let the sun rise out of the day
I water the flowers
the droplets should fall
to drive the flower's juice
and the voice of growth sticks to life
 
on days when nothing really happens
the airplane is inside the window frame
it draws a white line above the rooftops
and the big bird keeps to the invisible course
so I know where I am to go
 
on such days every moment is
a mile uncompleted I drink out of it
and the daylight weighs my breathing
I splash against my voice
and break into two waves
 
on each and every day like this
everything is yearning home
something vanishes from the horizon
and becomes visible elsewhere
but the sky continues

 
history
 
the meadows rose
they picked up their bodies in the morning and left
they closed a dandelion clock and its wind into travel bags
 
they left so that they also took the memory of themselves
in the morning nobody looked for the grass
the slopes were bare the soil was carried away
 
nobody knew it was an ordinary morning
a girl opened a picture book a farmer made a furrow
I ran across the field
 
nobody told us
until one day a blade of grass accidentally grew
and suddenly all meadows have long been there  

 
Author’s Bionote:
 
*Dr. Glorjana Veber (1981, Slovenia) is a poet, editor, translator and performer. She graduated in political science from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, where she continued her master's studies in the sociology of everyday life. She also completed additional courses at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana and finished Ph.D. in literary studies from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana on the topic: Poetry as an Element of Social Change. Over the past decade, she has specialized in the study of quantum physics in the context of language, particularly poetry, and lectures on the functioning and impact of frequencies in language. Her poetry has been translated into more then 40 languages worldwide and she has received numerous domestic and international awards. Through her Institute IRIU (Inspiration, Research, Innovation, Art) she has developed and scientifically substantiated over 1000 experimental poetry projects named Literature of Situations, which have been presented both domestically and internationally. She is the author of several poetry collections published in Slovenia and abroad, including bilingual book "In the Proximity of Silence", which was the first Slovenian book published in Bangladesh. She is also the author of the three-time bestseller book "Modróko" (WisEye), which consists of 500 spiritual thoughts on life, named after the Akashic Field: Akashicas. As a poet, she is featured in numerous international anthologies and is a regular guest at international festivals and book fairs. She is a member of the Slovenian PEN Center and employed as the Head of Office at the Slovene Writers’ Association.