Ivan Benak

pučki pjesnik · folk poet  ·  Sopje 1933. – Valpovo 2015.Sopje 1933 – Valpovo 2015

Kao rijeka bez povratka,isto tako život teče.Blago onom ljudskom stvoru,tko zdravstvene ima sreće.

Like a river never turningback, so too our life flows on;blessed is the human creaturewho has health to count upon.

A za pomoć u svom radu,koju ste Vi meni dala:nek' Vam ova knjiga moja,mjesto mene kaže hvala!

And for all the help you gave mein the work you had to do,let this book of mine, for me,say a "thank you" now to you!

Zato nek' Vam ona sama,pruži radost i veselje.Stvarajući ovu knjigu,to su bile moje želje.

So may it, all on its own,bring you gladness and good cheer;as I wrote this book, that wasall I wished, with heart sincere.

Dragici Kandrač, od autora.

To Dragica Kandrač, from the author.

Sedamnaestoga prosincana početku jedne zime,dv'je tisuće i dvanaeste,za Dragicu pišem rime.

On December's seventeenth,at the start of winter-time,in the year two thousand twelve,I write Dragica this rhyme.

17. 12. 2012.

December 17, 2012

Translator's note. A thank-you in a copy of his book for Dragica Kandrač, a nurse on the internal medicine ward of the Osijek hospital.