Through time I carry fertility and cares, joy and glory.
And the fruit and the cross of my country I bear them with me – Here are my sufferings:
And under a stone and in the sky and in my white bed is the same threshing of grain all bloody.
And for me at the altar they sing of Eternity. I am the nuptials. And all that is birth and creation bears my sign.
And as the darkness ever grows and grows My star is ever brighter.
ELLIPSE II
We are not of this world and we will not remain here Words will remain to wander and howl like the winds Distant love will come to fetch her children and all the stars will be near to one another All that we dreamed will be true Freed from the atom music instead of words like an elegy will sing in us of a time long past.
MESSAGE
If I die Carry me On a bier of metaphors
Don’t ever lower me From the shore of one sea On to the shore of another sea Let me rest Let the distance weep
If I die Do not close my eyes Continue to love me With your blind little offerings
If I die Do not carry my dead body to the River Bury me In the very eyeball of the world.
Radovan Pavlovski (born on 23rd November 1937) is a prominent and internationally acclaimed Macedonian poet, essayist, travelogue writer and academician. He studied law and literature at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. He is a Member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association and the Writers’ Associations of Croatia and Serbia. He is also a member of the Macedonian P.E.N. Centre and a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of the following works: Drought, wedding and moving (poetry, 1961), Korabia (poetry, 1964), High noon (poetry, 1966) Boemia of Nature (1969), Through the crack of the sword (poetry, 1971), The sun the serpent knows nothing about (poetry, 1972), The feast (poetry, 1973), Grains (poetry, 1975), Lightnings (poetry, 1978), Guards (poetry, 1980), Plague (poetry, 1984), Unlocking the roads (travelogue, 1986), Keys (poetry, 1986), Marena (poetry, 1986), Selected works in three volumes (1986), Foundation (poetry, 1988), Grains, Lightnings and Keys (trilogy, 1989), The God of the morning (poetry, 1991), What can poetry do? (essays, 1993), The children of the Universe (poetry for children, 1993), Democratic jungle (political essays, 1994), Sound rider (poetry, 1995), The poet’s message to all poets in the World – Struga Poetry Evenings (1995), The Son of the Sun (poetry, 1999), Shield (poetry, 2001), With one eye (poetry, 2002), Eternity is Happening (2014). Author of the Manifestos: The Epic of Voting (co-author, 1960), Manifesto of the Poetic Republic of Zelezna Reka (1990). His awards include: "Miladinov brothers", "11th October", "Koco Racin", "Goceva povelba", "Aco Sopov" and "Knizeven zezol". Foreign awards include "Mladost", "Zlatna struna", "24 Disova prolet" and "Risto Ratkovic". The manuscript "The Feast" received an award for its high artistic merits (poetry, Croatia, 1972). His poems have been translated and published in more than 50 languages and included in various anthologies of modern Macedonian, European and world poetry. A number of volumes of his poetry have been published in translation both in Macedonia and abroad: (in Serbian) – 10 books, published in Serbia (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Cacak, Krusevac), in Montenegro (Niksic), and in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Banja Luka); (in Albanian) – Djaloshi magje, Pristina, 1977; (in Slovenian) – Rdeci in crni petelin, Maribor, 1978; (in Turkish) – Gol ulkesi surkler, Istanbul, 1973; Canim avuklarda patcadi, Skopje, 1988; Dunyanin gozbebegine gomun beni, Istanbul, 1995; (in French) – Un autre oiseau dans autre temps, Lausanne, 1982; Le Cavalier du son suivi de le Fils du Soleil, Paris, 2002; (in English) – Free Song from Iron River, Canberra, 1983; Road to the Mountains, Canberra, 1985; (in Russian) – Put na goru, Moscow, 1995; (in Czech) – Zeleni host, Praha, 1969; (in Romanian) – Maya, Bucharest, 1981; (in Esperanto) – Castelo de la Rosso, Skopje, 1991; (in Swedish) – Ljuset som vaknar middagstid, Malmo, 1998; (in Bulgarian) – Ключ за зърне и мълнии, Sofia, 2002; Храм на Мълниите, Sofia, 2009.