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Saturday, 7 January 2023

The Poem And The Butterfly - Mihail Rendžov

Find
But a crumb of light
And make a butterfly.

It will stay on your eye-lashes
For a long time
And then enter your blood.

Afterwards find
A thread of rainbow
And spin it around
Until it is husked.

Thus for a long time
It will trouble you.
In the end
You will want to name it
But from your blood
A butterfly
Will crawl out
And
Fly away

Mihail Rendžov (born 1936) Macedonia
Translated by Dragi Mihajlovski and Irena Perčinkova
Source: Blesok

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