Being

Svetlana Stojkovska 1973 (Skopje)



How one dies
Through a durbin, in observation of their own life
Somewhere out there, at the farther unrevealed shore of the existence
Separated from what it should be
By a single step,
But also by some untouchable eternity,
And some stoned space
And some muted rambling

How one dies
In shivering
And in absence of courage

But what if to be oneself
Means only - to be,
And not within the times,
And not within the space
And not within the speech
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Submitted by heruvim on April 19, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axxbxbcd Adx xbxcx
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 429
Words 83
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 3, 5

Svetlana Stojkovska

Svetlana Stojkovska published a book of poetry named "This time, instead of silence", in Macedonian, a long time ago, and then life took her into corporate whirlpools only to, years after, throw her back at the shore of her salvation, the shelter long yearned for, her only true reason for existence - literature. more…

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