Saša Milivojev - ICE AGE

Saša Milivojev 1986 (Serbia)



An endless plate of ice
The camel carries me
Treading heavily
Icy tears from sobbing splutter
It stumbles
Over the tips of the pyramids
Weeping
The soul is wrenched
My firefly is not here
At nine
As it once was

 
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Scheme ABBCDEFGCHI
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 216
Words 42
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

Saša Milivojev

Saša Milivojev is a famous writer, poet, journalist columnist and political analyst... One of the most read columnists in Serbia, he is the author of five books, and numerous columns published in various daily newspapers. He is the author of the novel “The Boy from the Yellow House” and of political speeches. His work has been translated into around twenty languages across the world. more…

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