Ivan Benak

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

Prigodne pjesme i posvete

Ovo vam je priča od malog zečića

Occasional verse and dedications

Here Is the Story of a Little Bunny

Reći ću vam sada jednu malu priču,najljepše je meni bilo u vrtiću.Svakog dana radost tete su nam dale,pa i divne priče iz knjige čitale.Ja vam dajem knjigu koja ima priču,o mojoj lutki i malom zečiću.Nek' vam draga teta u vašem vrtiću,svakog dana čita iz te knjige priču.Svake noći, djeco, divne snove snili,a ujutro vedri i veseli bili.To vam sada želi ovaj pjesnik Ivokoji za vas lično piše ovo štivo.

Now a little story I would like to share:kindergarten days! No others can compare.Every day our teachers brought us joy anew,and from books read lovely stories to us too.Here's a book I give you, with a story thereof my little dolly and a little hare.May your teacher dear, in your kindergarten there,read a story from this book each day with care.May you dream sweet dreams, dear children, every night,and each morning wake up cheerful, glad and bright.This is what the poet Ivo wishes, whowrote these very lines himself, for none but you.

U Valpovu sada ova pjesma cvjeta,jedanaestog dana studenog mjeseca,ravno dv'je tisuće i trinaestog ljeta.Za radnoga dana, bez nekoga sveca.

Now in Valpovo this poem blossoms here,on the eleventh day of the month of November,in two thousand thirteen, in that very year,a working day, with no saint's day to remember.

Translator's note. Written in a copy of his children's book Zekina sreća (Bunny's Luck) for the kindergarten in Rešetari.