South East Europe - Yugoslavia 1999
(From the Shiki list)
NATO is bombing Yugoslavia -- Holy Week
Dimitar Anakiev
March 29
sky over Belgrade -- children are waving to NATO fighting aircraft
air-raid alarm -- NATO bombs are crossing the flight of crows
shelter -- a child's trembling hand draws a butterfly
Vid Vukasović
March 29
after bombing the ruins of a bridge linked by fog
Nebojša Simin
March 30
knowing nothing about NATO bombing yellow narcissus grows
Liliana Miljanić
April 2
air-raid shelter -- speaking with the neighbours from the upper flat
bomb explosion -- in a cloud of smoke the gloomy moon
in front of the church a mother and daughter with badges "Target"
Zoran Doderović (td)
April 3
nine candles on the cake all wishes (are) the same - NO more birthdays in the shelter
Jasminka Nadaškić-Djordjević
April 4
darkening my window before an air-raid -- the bright moon
Dragan J. Ristic/
April 5
unexploded yellow NATO bomb -- the field of dandelions
Radovan Čivanović
April 6
after bombing in my flower-pots no more flowers
Čivanka Dragosanović
April 6
air-raid -- in the piece of window glass a piece of the sky
Zoran Doderović
April 6
flocks of wild geese migrating this winter night through my restless dreams
Vid Vukasović
April 6
air-raid alarm -- traffic light is working for no one
Ljubinka Tošić
April 7
dark shelter -- I am stepping on someone child's toy
Svetomir Djurbabić (td)
April 7
burnt cherry-tree -- the spring is coming by NATO aircraft
Ferenc Toth
April 8
after the night of bomb whistling -- morning chirp
Nada Zlatić-Kavgić
April 10
NATO planes -- the beauty of the sky on the child's face
Goran Poletan
April 10
spring sunshine -- in the ploughed field a NATO rocket
green meadow -- spring flowers mixed with NATO leaflets
Aleksandar Pavić(td)
April 10
sunny morning after the night of bombing -- a dove flies off
air-raid alarm -- a petal of blooming plum falls down
Pavle Adjanski
April 12
gloomy sky -- walking with my son in air-raid alarm
Dušan Gladić
April 13
moving nowhere in air-raid alarm -- a scarecrow
Aleksandar Pavić
April 13
bombing stopped -- next to the garden of red tulips a site of fire
Easter morning -- cock-a-doodle-doo and air-raid alarm
Bogoljub T. Mihajlović (td)
April 14
way to the shelter -- someone's phone is ringing and ringing...
all the day in the shelter -- this spring is passing away
Milenko D. čirović-Ljuticki
April 14
smoke and fire -- near the destroyed home cherries still in bloom
mother's kiss calming the little girl after the bomb blast
Vid Vukasović
April 15
detonations -- the X tapes on the pane divide the sky
Zoran Doderović
April 16
bombing stopped -- the lion from the broken bridge drowned in Danube
Milan Pokrajac
April 16
broken bridge -- a white car still on it
Bogdanka Stojanovski
April 18
cartoon stopped, bombers over my head -- I see a real war
Filip Stojanovski (11 years)
April 18
spring sky -- at the moment of explosion not any star
Jasminka Nadaškić- Djordjević
April 18
distant explosions the eyes of children reddened of tears and smoke
will it ever stop asks the little girl her smiling doll
Vid Vukasović
April 20
Pilots returning. In their cockpits the photos of their loved ones.
Vid Vukasović
April 21
shelter -- an old woman is wiping her red apple
deserted town -- the birds also (are) going away
Dejan Bogojević
April 23
TV building while burning down still produces news
a dead cameraman holds tightly his camera smeared by blood
(RTS destruction)
Vid Vukasović
April 23
morning coffee -- news about the broken bridge followed by sparrows' chirping
Sasa Vavić (from Batajnica)
April 28
after the bombing ashes on the site of fire -- spring dusk
Nevenka Bratić (from Zemun)
April 28
so 'safe' in the shelter children are covered in (all) our tears and fears
NATO kill only Serbs sometimes, maybe, wrong targets what a human war
young fresh lettuce we are watching, not eating -- war spring ninety nine
Jasminka Nadaškic-Djordjević
April 28
sound of a bomber -- a blooming chestnut tree in the moonlight
the refinery is burning -- oil smell enters our shelter
Zoran Doderović
May 08
explosion -- my sleepy parrot falls down
Dus\/an Mijajlović Adski (from Niš)
May18
in the sleepless night and passed memories falls the bomb
a woman opens the broken window to feed a pigeon
Svetlana Mladenović (from Belgrade)
May 27
after air-raid siren stopped the still flight of a bird
Vid Vukasović (td)
May 30
cold and bright spring night, in grandfather's eyes tears: "God, save the children from bombs!"
Jasminka Nadaškić- Djordjević
Jun 08
Copyright authors, 1999
(td) - Dimitar Anakiev's translation for Shiki list