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dzana
12-22-2006, 11:07 AM
Message from a country

Provokingly somebody asks
Who, what, where is, excuse me
How is that Bosnia
Tell me

And promptly comes the answer
There was, forgive me, a land
Bosnia
Poor and arid
Cold and chilly
And moreover

Forgive me
Proud
And full of dreams.

BLUE RIVER
No one knows where it is
we know little but it is known

behind the mountain behind the valley
behind the seven behind the eight

and even more wretched and even more weird
over tortuous over bitter

over berry over dogrose
over heat over freeze

beyond foreboding beyond doubt
behind the nine behind the ten

and even deeper and even stronger
beyond silence beyond darkness

where roosters do not sing
where horns are not heard

and even more wretched and even more weird
beyond reason beyond God

there is a blue river
wide it is deep it is

a hundred years wide
a thousand summers deep it is

about its length don't even think
yetsam and flotsam unmending

there is a blue river

there is a blue river -
we had better cross the river

both of these songs were written ny Mehmedalija Mak Dizdar. Hope you like them:o