Ivan Benak

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

Prigodne pjesme i posvete

Prijatelju Ivi Zeliću

Occasional verse and dedications

To My Friend Ivo Zelić

Ja sam knjigu napisao,priroda mi snage dala.

I have written this, my book,nature's strength has seen me through;

Ali da bi čitatelju,razgaliti dušu znala.

but for it to find the wayto warm a reader's spirit too,

Zato Tebi prijatelju,na pomoći puno hvala!

for your help, my friend, I say:many, many thanks to you!

Translator's note. One of the verse thank-yous to those who helped fund his sixth book, Stihom kroz život (2010).