Smile of memories

Someone carries the Hellenic Republicin their eyessomeone in their heartor on their fingertipsthat.....

SMILE OF MEMORIES

SMILE OF MEMORIES

SMILE OF MEMORIES

Someone carries the Hellenic Republic
in their eyes
someone in their heart
or on their fingertips
that touched
the marble slabs.

The Greeks
someone holds them
in a history textbook
or enslaved
in Pythagoras's theorem.

And yet someone else
comes from the Greeks
with sand
between their toes
and soles yearning
to return to the bosom of beaches.

I've carried those people and landscapes
entwined in the net of verses
and I won't let them go
until on paper
they weave for me
the most beautiful smile of the Aegean.

Oliver Janković

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Oliver Janković was born in 1957 in Belgrade, where he completed his studies in Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Philology. He writes poetry, prose, plays, and radio dramas for both children and adults. He is engaged in literary criticism and also writes aphorisms and short satirical forms. He has published the following books: "Myth and Homeland" (2000, monograph, co-author), "The Sea Star" (2000, stories for children), "Soul Clearance" (2005, stories), "Voice of Things" (2008, poems for adults), "Talia and Melpomena" (2010, poems for adults), "Two Requiems and a Handful of Lives" (2015, poems for adults), "Wit is the Boldness That Acquired Education" (2018, aphorisms and satirical stories, co-author with Blaga Janković), "Happy Ending" (2019, children's novel). His dramatic works include: "Major Gavrilović" (monodrama, National Theatre Sombor 2001), "The Most Important Granddaughter in the World" (monodrama for children, Novi Sad 2001), "Discretion Guaranteed" (monodrama for adults 2007), "My Grandfather Hogar" (2018, theatrical performance for children, Belgrade). "La Madalena" (2020, bilingual radio drama in English/Serbian, Lulu Press inc.). Twelve radio dramas for children and adults were broadcast on Radio Skopje, Radio Belgrade, and Radio Novi Sad. He is a member of UKS (Association of Writers of Serbia) and BAK (Belgrade Aphoristic Circle).
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