Golub Jašović
Golub Jašović (1960, Peć), holds a PhD in philology and is a lecturer at the department of Serbian language and literature of the Faculty of Philosophy in Kosovska Mitrovica, as well as an associate at the Institute of Serbian language of the Serbian Academy of Science.He has published scientific papers in different magazines, publications, anthologies etc. from professional and scientific conventions and congress.He has published poetry anthologies: As we were grawing on rock (1996), Deathly Survival (1998), The Bone on Hvosno (2001), In the shadow of Prokletije (2009), Bistrica Revel (2012), Poems (2012), Zavetnice (2016), Something like smile together with Slavica Jovanović (2017), Poem under Paklena (2018) and anthology of short stories From Bistrica and Sitnica (2015)He is a member of Kosovo and Metohija literary Association and Serbian Literary Association.
I PROMISED HER A POEM
She came
Somehow from nowhere.
Silently she knelt
By my bedside
In an otherworldly voice
A healing voice
Lit up the home.
In such a voice
Our mother
Put us to sleep hungry
Me and my brothers
Inventing
A better future.
She tried to ask me
And to talk about us…
Are we truly in love
And what do I think about it,
Do we actually need
Such questions
After all?
I responded by silence
And she stared at the open window.
That night again there were no stars.
- Look, no stars again, she whispered.
- But there are, I said quietly
In my cramped apartment
One star, only just descended
From the Šumarice skyline
Sparkles on my pillow.
We kissed sort of fleetingly
And then I clumsily started
To wipe kisses
From the illuminated side of her face
Of long subtle eyebrows
And restless eyelashes
By the locks of her
Dark long hair
Wrought from the moonlight.
This morning, again,
I seek her
On the Šumarice horizon
And on my pillow
Where in her absence
A young sun was born.
