Date: 10.1.2013.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Decision of the Jury "SEEKING FOR A POEM 2012"
Among 102 poets and poetess from 37 countries from all over the World, The Jury of 2
Competition "SEEKING FOR A POEM" (members: Giuseppe Napolitano from Italy and
Sabahudin Had?ialić from Bosnia and Herzegovina) unanimously have decided the following:
FIRST PRIZE WINNER
1. POEM "The Eye of John Keats in Rome"
The Eye of John Keats in Rome
For hours it stands in the window
once in a while it throws itself onto the Spanish Steps
or into the Tiber
if onto the steps
it bursts and then returns intact
like a gel medusa to the dark-skinned palm of a street vendor
if into the water
it swims and then flies to dry its wings
it sweeps the Hadrian arches of the bridges
the sky of the Vatican domes
the horizons? caravans of stone pines
in the evening it orders the same wine
in the same bar
at last it returns to the window and writes on the pane with its finger
the crowds on the steps won?t let it sleep
it doesn?t know what to do next
so it starts all over
from the pupil
from the core
translated by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
1. POEM "OKO JOHNA KEATSA U RIMU"
OKO JOHNA KEATSA U RIMU
Cijelim satovima stoji na prozoru
ponekad se baca na Španjolske stube
ili u Tibar
ako na stube
rasprskava se pa se kasnije vraća netaknuto
ko meduza od gela na tamnoputi dlan
uličnog prodavača
ako u vodu
pliva pa kasnije ljeti da isuši krila
mostovima pometa Hadrijanove arkade
vatikanskim kupolama nebo
horizontima - karavane pinija
uvečer naručuje isto vino
u istom kafiću
na kraju vraća se prozoru i prstom piše na staklu
gužva na stubama ne daje spavati
ono ne zna što raditi dalje
počinje dakle sve od početka
od zjenice
od jezgra.
Prevod na BHS jezik /Translated in BHS language: Grzegorz Łatuszyński
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Author: Krystyna Lenkowska, Rzeszów, Poland
Explanation of the Jury:
1. POEM "The Eye of John Keats in Rome"
Krystyna Lenkowska, Rzeszów, Poland
"Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water."
The last request of John Keats (1795-1821)
was to be placed under a tombstone
bearing no name or date, only the words.
A story telling poem with a sign of prophecy having in mind that the message of words is nothing else but a hint of thoughts encountering with alternative visions. Of what? Remembering! Why? To survive the world of enviness and the world of sorrow. Again, why? To be human, is the answer. To be like...the part of...The eye of John Keats in Rome.