Hailing from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maid is 21 years old. In his spare time he writes poetry. He is moderator of the World Literature Forum Peace and Humanity, held in Bhutan. He is also the editor of the First Virtual Art portal led by Dijana Uherek Stevanovic, and the selector of the competition at a page of the same name that aims to bring together all poets around the world. Many works have also been published in anthologies and journals (Chile, Spain, Ecuador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, San Salvador, United Kingdom, Indonesia, India, Croatia, Serbia, etc.) as well as printed copies of the anthology of poems “Sea in the palm of your hand“, „Stories from Isolation”, and “Kosovo Peony” and others. In 2020 he was proclaimed a poet in the Indo-Universe group, which is also involved in charity around the world. He has been writing for over twelve years. Soon his works will be translated into several languages of the world (Chinese, Italian and French).

Children are Special and Growing Up

I am especially happy.

Because I grew up in the area

Which study gives me life!

It is not easy at all.

I know that it’s my time.

Was created only

To be like that

As I create

I know that love

And growing up with the hour of milk

Give my significance and meaning

That life was great

I am already growing up in this environment.

Which is radically special

And I study every day.

That life is precious and my childhood

Where I played with everyone in the street.

Was the main man for the girls!

It’s just a thorn in the side. It

Because I’m not a child anymore!

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I know I love everyone around me equally

Because neither nation nor religion matters

Let peace and love unite the world

The most beautiful epochs of my life!

 Maid Corbic

Let peace and love unite the world

I am aware that we live in imperfection

A world that brings great trouble

But time is on my side

If I still understand only one thing

That all that is ugly is short-lived

A place of war let the world love other people

I know I love everyone around me equally

Because neither nation nor religion matters

Let peace and love unite the world

The most beautiful epochs of my life

I know I’m not a perfect being

But in peace I oppose evil wars

Which destroy childhoods that are wonderful

And it gives me the right to fight for sure

Based on everything I see for justice and reconciliation

The world must know only one thing

I believe that faith and hope move the world

That love moves everything in me again

And that I was never left alone

For peace and love overcome evil always!

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Maid Corbic, comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 22-year young poet lives in Tuzla. He spends most of his free time writing and reading books. His works have been published in numerous portals and magazines locally and internationally.

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Selma Kopić

Selma Kopić is a Professor of Bosnian Language and Literature. Born in 1962 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she is the author of two textbooks and one workbook for primary school. She worked as a coach, reviewer and proofreader. Her stories and poems have been awarded and entered anthologies in Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH) and around the world.

The last beats of summer

Fresh flowers in a vase,

Next to the dried one

Precious flower

Since last summer,

Morning fogs and night frost,

Toothy sun,

Streets full of people,

A house full of warmth,

Basket full of fruit

-All echoes of painful silence.

At night

In my alley is darkness and desolation,

Only the puddles glitter

Like lamps.

I’m listening

Droplets rattling jingling,

Car-brakes creaks

Maybe, someone knocks

At my door too!

That’s how it happens

When it seem, like a naive child,

You fall in love

On the threshold of fifty-fifth

You open yourself like a book,

Show hopes, fears, worries

You bloom like a rose in the fall,

Spread your arms wide

Not knowing that

You are hugging north wind.

With a heart in an extended hand,

With dreams in the wounded soul,

With the letters in the open book,

With a tear in each petal

Say farewell, say goodbye!

Wake up, grow up!

No matter how painful it is

To walk alone,

Don’t come back

In that summer anymore!

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Zadnji otkucaji ljeta

Svježe cvijeće u vazi

pokraj sasušenog jednog

dragog cvijeta

od prošlog ljeta,

jutarnje magle i noćni mraz,

zubato sunce,

ulice pune svijeta,

kuća puna topline,

košara puna voća

– sve odzvanja od bolne tišine.

Noću

u mom sokaku je mrak i pustoš,

samo barice svjetlucaju

k’o lampice.

Osluškujem

zveckanje kapljica,

škripu kočnica…

Možda i na moja vrata

neko pokuca.

Tako to biva

kad se k’o naivno dijete

zaljubiš

na pragu pedeset pete.

Otvoriš se poput knjige,

pokažeš nade, strahove, brige…

Procvjetaš k’o jesenja ruža,

ruke širom raširiš

ne znajući da sjeverac grliš.

Sa srcem u ruci pruženoj,

sa snima u duši ranjenoj,

sa slovima u knjizi otvorenoj,

sa suzom u svakoj latici

pozdravi se, oprosti!

Probudi se, odrasti!

Ma kako bolno bilo

sam koračati,

nemoj se više

u to ljeto vraćati!

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Contemporary World Literature Poetry from Bosnia Herzegovina

By Selma Kopic

Selma Kopić is a Professor of Bosnian Language and Literature. Born in 1962 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she is the author of two textbooks and one workbook for primary school. She worked as a coach, reviewer and proofreader.

Her stories and poems have been awarded and entered anthologies in Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH) and around the world. The most significant awards are: Third prize “Mak Dizdar” for unpublished collection of poems “Puzzle”, BiH, 2008; Golden Plaque, “Poetry of the Year 2020”, Balkan Poetry Union, BiH, 2021; First prize for the triptych of love poems in the competition “Poem above poems”, BiH 2021;First prize for the best foreign poem “I’m not ready to leave yet”, Italy, 2020. She has published two independent poetry books: ‘‘Sign’’, ‘‘The Monument of love’’ and a joint collection ‘‘Cosmic Rainbow’’ with five other authors. Third poetry book ‘‘Puzzle’’ will be published these days by ”Darwish”, publishing house from Bulgaria/ Germany.

The vicious circle

There are a lot of planets in space,

Clouds in the sky

Many birds share a nest,

Together grow trees in the forest.

But the three of them don’t have each other.

The Earth would like to keep the Sun,

Constantly afraid that he will escape

She would want him for herself,

But, to warm others, he goes west.

The Moon would want the Earth

But can never touch

The one he loves so much.

And the three of them spin incessantly

In that vicious circle

The Moon, young and bright,

Sadly watching every night

The eyes of his darling in love with another

And so the Moon dreams of the Earth by day,

The Earth dreams of the Sun at night,

I dream of you at all times,

To another you give your light.

I don’t allow the Moon to come near,

I let him suffer…

Longing, love, pain, happiness…

Every now and then everything comes back,

Everything is spinning in a circle, my dear!

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Contemporary World Literature  Poetry from Bosnia

By Selma Kopić

Selma Kopić is a Professor of Bosnian Language and Literature. Born in 1962 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she is the author of two textbooks and one workbook for primary school. She worked as a coach, reviewer and proofreader.

Her stories and poems have been awarded and entered anthologies in Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH) and around the world. The most significant awards are: Third prize “Mak Dizdar” for unpublished collection of poems “Puzzle”, BiH, 2008; Golden Plaque, “Poetry of the Year 2020”, Balkan Poetry Union, BiH, 2021; First prize for the triptych of love poems in the competition “Poem above poems”, BiH 2021;First prize for the best foreign poem “I’m not ready to leave yet”, Italy, 2020. She has published two independent poetry books: ‘‘Sign’’, ‘‘The Monument of love’’ and a joint collection ‘‘Cosmic Rainbow’’ with five other authors. Third poetry book ‘‘Puzzle’’ will be published these days by ”Darwish”, publishing house from Bulgaria/ Germany.

 Whispering leaves

There, in the shade of a leafy birch,

Tremors of our bodies

Spoke for themselves

The look in the eyes

Was enough to make time stand still for us!

Single touch made us forget about everyone else.

The leaves whispered as we hid in the shade.

That birch remembers every movement

Of our trembling bodies!

Its branches keep all our secrets.

We thought we would stand there together,

Forever!

And then, the leaves turned yellow and withered,

Just like our love.

But, we loved each other,

The birch is a silent witness.

I stop by sometimes,

In the spring,

When green is everything.

I can still hear the leaves whispering.

In my mind, we stand there…

And I tremble,

I tremble as if you were still there with me…

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