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While God listens — POEM 𝒃𝒚 Valentina Novković

While God listens

While God listens by Valentina Novković - Serbian Literature - Serbian Poetry

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There is something devastating in

the smile of a day

that carries hunger

and prayer on the same shoulder.

In it, an old woman with daisies

and a primrose prays for

a lump of survival,

folds of grace in the palm

of your hand.

The world has the claws

of the wounded

swan and the smell of joy

in the eyes of children

that no one was able to pamper.

He has us with invisible ink

we spell new ways

agreements between

willows and water lilies.

While the Lord listens.

….

(Self-Translation from SERBIAN)

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While God listens

While God listens by Valentina Novković - Serbian Literature - Serbian Poetry

To read all posts of Valentina Novković, Please click here

There is something devastating in

the smile of a day

that carries hunger

and prayer on the same shoulder.

In it, an old woman with daisies

and a primrose prays for

a lump of survival,

folds of grace in the palm

of your hand.

The world has the claws

of the wounded

swan and the smell of joy

in the eyes of children

that no one was able to pamper.

He has us with invisible ink

we spell new ways

agreements between

willows and water lilies.

While the Lord listens.

….

(Self-Translation from SERBIAN)

v  

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  • Valentina Novković - Serbian Writer - Serbian Poetess - Serbian Translator - Serbia

    Valentina Novković, (Serbia), is a graduate philologist, a literary translator, a poet and a prose writer. She is also an Editor at the publishing house Liberland Art and Vračar, translator of works from Russian and English authors, and presenter of the Literary Conversations program.. Her verses have been translated into 22 languages: Hungarian, Russian, English, Romanian, Polish, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Italian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, Indian, Nepali and others. She is the winner of many prizes for poetry and prose. She has been published in more than 20 world anthologies. Valentina Novković has translated into Serbian 15 books by authors from all over the world: Leo Butnaru, Arslan Bajir, Hosiat Rustamova, Kuchkor Narkabil, Mai Van Fan, Eduard Harents, Rahim Karimov, Ali Aliyev and many others… She interviewed more than 200 authors from of the rural world and they were published in relevant periodicals in Serbia. More than 300 poems and stories by authors from all over the world have been published in the Serbian literary magazines. Valentina Novković has published a number of books: Timeless (Poems) – 2014; Drop on Dry Land (Parthenon) – 2018; Riddles of Tenderness Liberland Art – 2021; Heavenly songs - 2022, Unrest, peace – 2023; Two Hours of Real Life (Stories) – 2020; Memories (Novel - dedicated to her deceased father) – 2024, etc.

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