Ivan Benak

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

Umirovljenički jadi

Matici umirovljenika Satnica

iz knjige Stihom kroz život (2010.)

Pensioners' woes

To the Satnica Pensioners' Association

from the book Through Life in Verse (2010)

POŠTOVANO PREDSJEDNIŠTVOI POŠTOVANA GENERACIJO

TO THE ESTEEMED PRESIDENCYAND THE ESTEEMED GENERATION

Vama žele topli pozdrav,ostvarenje vaših snovai uspješni rad skupštine:Delegati iz Valpova!

Warmest greetings they send you,dreams fulfilled, and may it gowell with your assembly's work:Delegates from Valpovo!

Za desetu obljetnicu,uspješnoga vašeg rada,sa ponosom sve čestitke:Valpovačkih delegata!

For ten years of good successthat your club now celebrates,proudly, all congratulationsfrom the Valpovo delegates!

U daljnjemu vašem radu,nek' vas vodi nova Vlada,sa uspjehom, to je želja:Valpovačkih delegata!

May the new Government lead youon in all the work that awaits,with success — for that's the wishof the Valpovo delegates!

S udrugama međusobno,u veselju sportskog rada,družili se, to je želja:Valpovačkih delegata!

With the other clubs, together,in the joy that sport creates,may you mingle — that's the wishof the Valpovo delegates!

Mirovina dosadašnja,nek' vam bude veća, nova.Dobro zdravlje žele vama:Delegati iz Valpova!

May the pension you get nowbe made new, and not so low;good health they wish all of you:Delegates from Valpovo!

Mnogo ljeta poživjeli,ne tražite RAJSKA VRATA!Iskrene su ovo želje:Valpovačkih delegata!

Many summers may you live,don't go looking for HEAVEN'S GATES!These are the sincere good wishesof the Valpovo delegates!

Valpovo, 08. 05. 2009.

Valpovo, May 8, 2009

Translator's note. A greeting from the Valpovo delegates to the tenth-anniversary assembly of the pensioners' association in Satnica. He calls its committee a “Government”.