Ivan Benak

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

Ljubavne pjesme

Šalješ li mi snove

iz knjige Stihom kroz život (2010.)

Love poems

Do You Send Me Dreams

from the book Through Life in Verse (2010)

U noći meni divne snove šalješi ljubav svoju koju rado primam.U snovima slatke poljupce mi daješ,u tihoj noći kada divno snivam.

At night you send me lovely dreams, and yousend me your love as well, which I am glad to keep;in dreams you give me your sweet kisses too,in the still night, while blissfully I sleep.

Od kuda bih znao da me željno ljubiškada ne bi meni svoje snove slala?U zagrljaj nježni da se meni nudiš,da bi meni svoje medne usne dala.

How would I know you long to kiss me, dear,if you had never sent your dreams my way?That in my tender arms you'd nestle near,and on my lips your honeyed lips you'd lay?

I dok srce moje tebe tiho zovena krilima mašte koju tebi šaljekada tebe ljubim, znam za slasti nove,o ljubavi našoj ja snivam i dalje.

And while my heart calls softly out to youon wings of fancy, which to you take flight,when I kiss you, I know delights anew,and of our love I dream on through the night.

A čim se probudim i otvorim oči,u zoru ranu kad se gase snovi,na tebe mislim da ćeš meni doći,i tako dani započinju novi.

And when I wake and open up my eyes to seethe early dawn, as all my dreams go out,I think of you, that you will come to me,and that is how the new days come about.

Valpovo, 23.11.1974.

Valpovo, November 23, 1974