Swallow's Tail

From paper, the artisan mechaniccrafts a swallow's tail,birds enter the engine of the heart.My eyes.....
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Swallow's Tail

Swallow's Tail

Swallow's Tail

From paper, the artisan mechanic
crafts a swallow's tail,
birds enter the engine of the heart.

My eyes reach the sky,
a perfect formation
of swallows departing,
six on one side
melding with six on the other.

I wave to them: "Farewell, messengers of birth!",
feeling sweat dripping from my forehead
mingling with the sweat of the laborer,
the swallows set two hearts in motion,
the engine within us beats
as they disappear on the horizon of infinity,
here and now everything begins and ends.

Will the engine within us soon cease,
will we see them again?
We do not know and need not know.
In that lies the beauty and pain,
poet and worker;
Death decides when life
interrupts its flight and falls.
I would like, with you,
from the highest heights,
to descend into the blackness of infinity, father.

Igor Tintor

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Igor Tintor was born in Belgrade in 1979. He is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia, the Association of Writers of Serbia, the Association of Serbian Writers in the Homeland and the Diaspora. So far, he has published five lyrical collections of poetry: "Dreams from Reality," "Two Sides of the Medal," "Nomad Poems," "Dislocation," "Faces of Love" from 2009 to 2013 for USKOR, as well as the drama-lyrical epic "Repentance" in 2015. In the same year, he released the historical epic "The Fall of Constantinople" and the two-book "Dramolets" and "Nameless." His next work is published by IP Prosveta, titled "Poetry of Life and Death" in 2016. Then, IP Prosveta publishes his novel "The Path of Blindness" in 2018. In 2021, IP Prosveta publishes a collaborative work with the prose and poetic creator Marina Matić titled "One," followed by poetry collections "Marina," "Indivisible," "You Eternal Love," and "Before God and Before You," in the same year. He lives and works as a freelance artist in his hometown.
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