Some lovely poems by the Croatian poet Vera Sokoliæ, lovingly translated by Lidija, a fine poet in her own right.....

1
I am only a woman
in my love for you
I have always been pure and honest
How much happiness
I had in myself
I give you everything
I loved you
unselfishly, long
In your eyes
I shine like a sun
and a star from the sky
How many nights
I spend lying tired
from love and happiness....

2
Sometimes, I am just thinking of you
and pain in my heart starts again
Because I love you
uselessly, secretly
All sleepless nights
know that
and tears on my face
in the loneliness

3
Was that reality
or only a dream
And I dreamed
that we were together
and wished
there never would come
another day.....

4
I watched in the sea
in the desert shore
in San Marino
And here we almost
drink a wine
that you bring
My eyes were in your eyes
I watched for you and me
I describe for you
shore and sea
watching in San Marino
But the magic was gone
the sea is unusual
you are gone!
I am sitting
on the desert shore
completely by myself
I am thinking on you
and drinking wine
watching in San Marino!

5
I pass through absolute loneliness
You are not here any more
someone was only
knocking on the window
two times
Was that a shadow
or someone with your face?
No, that wasn’t you
I am only looking
at your picture.

6
White birch trees
alone in the night
and a snow
on the top of the hills
Cold on the street
and my eyes
through the window
looking for someone.
The street is empty
Moonlight.....

7
Do you remember
that day was raining
when I came to you?
You held me
and kissed me
I knew that I would die than
because I shouldn’t love you
But it was late
I got up
with rain on me
and left........

8
I will cry tomorrow
because, today
I can’t cry any more
Although I feel loneliness
in my soul
and some strange feelings
In this foggy cold morning
I was left alone
like a crushed flower
in the grass...
But, I will cry tomorrow!

You didn’t come
only empty promises left
in this heavy foggy morning
Tears in my eyes
still shining
dreams are gone
you will not come
any more
But still I won’t show sadness
I will cry tomorrow!

9
Tonight I was dreaming of the sea
and some distant shore
and your eyes
happy from slightly
like two dark lakes
from longing to burn
I dreamed that
together we walk
through a beautiful morning
blue like the sea
My hand in yours
Although I know
that isn’t reality
but only a dream!

10
O, do you know
that love is
one ray of sun
which lightens the sky
love is an orchestra of sound
that runs through the field
love is a hug
between man and women
love is a friendly hand
across someone’s shoulder
love is a bird
with open wings
sound of wind
nightingale’s song
Love is butterfly flight
rhapsody of life
magic of peace
between stone and sea
love is beginning
of life and death
love is a pink flower
love is you and me!

11
Will you take my hand
that stands by yours
till they play
our old song
about wind, stone and sea

Touch my hand
when the moon comes out
in the window frame
were it hides

Touch my hand
because this night
I want to dream about you
a dream that you will come
Take my hand
to stay in yours.

12
Never look behind you
because your eye can fall
on someone who waits on you
or on some eyes
full of sadness and pain
or on someone who loves you

Maybe your eye
fall on someone
who begs for your hug
or on someone
who thinks on you
No, don’t ever look
behind you!

13

I am passing
near some closed door
I am passing
near some smashed wall
I am standing
near one broken clock
and expecting you!

14

I will not watch
you any more
I will not wait
for you any more
I wish not to see
you any more
And I still thinking
of you this summer
and expecting
your return
like that, in the loneliness
near some sunny dales!

15

And again one morning
and one day
were passing quietly
near me
a dream is catching me
but phone is silent
I am expecting your call
evan I know
that you will not call
Hours are passing
longing is torturing me
in an empty house
here, near the sea
New dawn
is almost coming out
Suddenly, the phone rings
I pick it up
with shaking hand
Hello, wrong number
That wasn't him!

16

Don't say
another time
Because there isn't another time
It is hard to say No
to a man who loves
But you wanted it that way
You crushed all my dreams
everything about our fantasies
and what you been to me!

17

When love dies
stars die too
And it needed so little
that we catch the happiness
But she passed
quietly near us
You don't care
for our love
Another one came
and stepped in the flood
of our life
She tore our love and happiness
only left pieces of our dream!

18

I came like this
how I am
And you were away from me
My poems
were staying silent
You weren't ready
to accept my gathered hands!

19

My heart is like
a river deep
My heart burns in fire
and keeps you in side.
My hear remembers
your body and waits.

20

My love
I give you this song
because it is written for you
I give you everything in this world
because that is all from me.
Only for you, my love!

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