Milan B. Popović Milan B. Popović, born in 1976. He has published articles in music magazines Rocks, Time out and X-zabava. At present, he works as a journalist and critic in the following music magazines Sound & music, Butcherian vibe, Helly cherry art & underground, Metal sound, Barikada, Trablmejker, Nervni slom, Aku-punk-tura, Ispred dragstora, Hard & heavy, Kontra; in the literary magazines Kvartal, Gradina, Književne novine, Naš trag, Književni magazin, Pressing, Novina beogradskog čitališta; as well as in the culture magazine Bestseler. He is the editor of the literary fanzine Poezin. He writes prose and poetry, and lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.

Published works:

Oka da ne ispustim dah, collection of poems ( Narodna knjiga/Alfa 2007)
Molitva tetoviranog srca, collection of poems ( Narodna knjiga/Alfa 2006)
Vreme brutalnih dobronamernika, collection of poems (Narodna knjiga/Alfa 2006)
Vrata moje priče, one of the authors in the collection of short stories (Alma, Belgrade, 2005)

You can contact Milan B. Popović directly by e-mail: kulturaurbanih@yahoo.com

Molitva tetoviranog srca Vreme brutalnih dobronamernika Oka da ne ispustim dah

Burning

I still watch you damnably,
Like I watch inside myself,
At night.

I’m still alone,
Still
Eternally,
Almost totally,
But not
Entirely.

I still struggle with effort,
I’m crucified
And I search for a reason,
I find it,
I look at myself, I see myself,
While watching you.


I haven’t given up even when I have,
I haven’t surrendered even when I sink to the bottom,
While patting the tops of their heads with my knee,
It’s so freezing here,
While I’m burning,
My head is splitting and a stress cloud hugs it,
Lays it on its wide pillow
Which does not stop, does not finish.


The poet dies silently

I hide the keys of the end from him,
I cast them,
blend them,
and drown them in the silver river.

The poet sobs in the corner of solitude,
He bursts with stanzas as he shakes,
He kills
Himself.

He exists even when he doesn’t,
He leaves a pearly trail,
The words reflect and bathe
In the tears of truth.

The poet shivers while thinking about you,
The truth confesses that the poet
Has come to his end.


Pleasure Whirl

The moon reflects in a puddle
Of a frostbitten burnt rain leech,
It drinks in the first the last ray,
In it is the reflection of the dark sky.

I sit on the lid of silence
Of her shroud,
I hug with a virtuous movement,
I lure you to dream,
Tranquility, rest,
I only wish to take a break.

I roam somewhere,
To be around or I won’t leave with your self,
To go everywhere
And not to see all,
Only to decorate the disaster
with a noose wreath.

I see the end deep within myself,
I offer it to you as a present
Since you have to refuse the face.

You wish to leave
Since you have no time,
I only wish to drop
This sleepy guard.



Sometimes

Sometimes it worries me no more.

I take off the weight,
I take off everything,
I watch you
With closed lips.

The silence echoes through the ether,
Which exists,
Not.

Here, everybody has given up,
Except for me,
And I’ve given up on myself.

Sometimes, I’d like to whisper to you,
Sometimes, I’d like to weep, shout,
Remove my gaze, fall asleep.

Things have changed here,
But in fact they never have.

I do not know you.

I do not want anymore,
Although I really want everything,
Because it rolls
As it stands.

To whither I don’t know how, but I don’t feel the light.
 

 

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