Ivan Benak

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

Pjesme za djecu

Radosno djetinjstvo

Poems for children

Happy Childhood

Ivankova to je vrtić,on se, djeco, tako zove.Tu ujutro djeca dođui snivaju divne snove.Igraju se i pjevaju,tu na djecu tete paze,djeci pjesme tu čitajui tete ih divno maze.U igri im nema kraja,to je dio pravog raja.Onda dođe po njih mama,ni kod kuće nisu sama.Na spavanje idu noći,sutra će u vrtić doći,da slušaju MALOG ZEKUkoji će im sve pomoći.

Ivankovo's kindergarten:children, by that name it goes;here the children come each morning,and in lovely dreams they doze.Here they play and here they sing,and the aunties mind them there;read them rhymes of everything,and they cuddle them with care.There's no end to all their play,it's a piece of heaven, I'd say.Then Mum comes to fetch them all;home, they're not alone at all.Off to bed they go at night,back they'll come with morning lightto listen to LITTLE BUNNY,who will help them get things right.

Valpovo, 12. 04. 2013.

Valpovo, April 12, 2013

Translator's note. Radosno djetinjstvo ("Happy Childhood") is the kindergarten in Ivankovo; the "aunties" (tete) are what Croatian children call their kindergarten teachers.