Ivan Benak

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

Ljubavne pjesme

Ima li što ljepše

Love poems

What Could Be More Lovely

Ima li što ljepšeod ljubavi?Ima li što ljepšeod voljene žene:skromne, vedre,mile i čedne,majčinski sretnei topline njene?Ima li što ljepšeod osmijeha njenog:anđeoskog lika,ozarenog lica,gracioznog hodai bujnih grudi,nježnog pogledašto ti snove budi?Tko još da opišete vrline njeneili da nabrojisve u jednom nizu?Kada žena volii kada je voljena,ona je Afroditasvome Adonisu.

What could be more lovelythan love itself?What could be more lovelythan the woman of your heart:modest, cheerful,tender and chaste,happy as a mother,and the warmth she can impart?What could be more lovelythan her gentle smile:an angel's likeness,a face aglow,the grace of her walkingand a swelling breast,a look so tenderthat wakes your dreams from rest?Who could ever tellall the virtues of her heart,or who could count themone by one in a row?When a woman lovesand when she is loved,she is Aphroditeto her own Adonis.

Valpovo, 1981.

Valpovo, 1981

Translator's note. In Greek myth Aphrodite, goddess of love, loved the beautiful youth Adonis.