Dekleva Milan:
XIX. Limping Sonnet
A cypress wanted to be a sonnet,
and words heard her.
An upright poem. Who was her grandfather?
She grew into a pure state. Silenced
by distances of the winds: by them she measured the world.
Into her cobalt branches growth wove
lovers’ glances, murders, quiet misfortunes.
With these, she carelessly straightened
through draughts, tempests, the sun’s assaults, the painful
greeting of snows. She gave
uprightness to everything, and thus withstood all.
To the deeds of the good and the evil she added
the sentience of wood. And a cypress cone, a bee sting
of heaven, to carry on with the making of poems.
Milan Dekleva
(1946 - ) A poet, essayist, and translator. He graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana and works as a journalist for several newspapers and television. He has published ten books of poetry including Limping Sonnets (Šepavi soneti, 1995) and three plays as well as a few children's books and musicals. An accomplished jazz pianist and a former rugby player, Dekleva, an award-winning author, rose to a particular prominence in the nineties. His poems and essays which are formally outstanding deal with the modern human condition in the absence of God.By the same author
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