ВОЗНЕСЕНИЕ

Огнените крилја
што ниту праг имаат
ниту залез

Галежно навраќаат
врз нашите бледи образи

Требејќи го вжежено
мразот што прилегнал
во тенките жили

Безобѕирно и со сочни потези
ги гонат трагите на шеметот

Искревајќи го кон небесата
горкиот и стежнат
густеж

Ascension

Fire wings
have no threshold
no sunset

Caresses turn
upon our pale cheeks

Their glow subtracts
ice by heat
in thin wires

Wanton and juicy strokes
pursue the path of dizziness

Raising to the heavens
a bitter and heavy
thickness

ВСУШНОСТ

Тешки зборови
слетуваат врз трошните плеќи,
се таложат без престан

Лесно се преобразуваат
во златен самар
Вовед се во небесни места:

Штом темната острица
мине низ оваа насушност,
лудиот пелин ќе згине

Ќе згние
спроти крилјата
далдисани

Actually

Tough words
land on crumbling shoulders,
pile up endlessly.

They easily transform
into a golden saddle,
to introduce the heavenly places.

Once the dark blade
passes through this nothingness,
the mad wormwood will be gone.

It will rot
across from the wings,
bottommost to top.

ВИДЕНИЕ

Венчаа
раскрилени порти
мислата да си ја разлистам.

Видов
вистинит
Мрачен Миг.

Веројатно затоа повторно паднав
во Лавиринт.
Минотаурот демне...

Vision

They married
the widespread, winged gates
to adorn my thoughts.

I saw
the true
dark moment.

Probably because I fell again
into this labyrinth,
the Minotaur looms…

Jovica Tasevski - Eternijan (born 25th July 1976, Skopje) is a renowned Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic. He graduated from the Comparative Literature Department, Faculty of Philology "Blaže Koneski" in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Works in National and University Library "St. Clement of Ohrid" - Skopje. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Macedonian literary magazine Stremež and a consultant for Macedonian poetry of the director of The Other Voices International Project, an anthology of world poetry, included in the World Poetry Directory of UNESCO.
Published books include: "Нешто се слуша" (Something Can Be Heard, poetry, 1995), "Визии. Глагол" (Visions. Verb, poetry, 1997), "Веда" (Lightning, poetry, 1998), "Постојното, плимата" (The Constant, the Tide, literary criticism, essays and studies, 2000), "Клатно" (Pendulum, poetry, 2001), "Небесни стражи" (Heavenly Guards, poetry, 2004), "Посоки и огледи" (Directions and Reflections, literary criticism, essays and studies, 2006), "Синтакса на светлината" (The Syntax of the Light, selected poems, volume 91 in capital project "Macedonian Literature", 2008).
With Maja Apostoloska he edited an anthology of Macedonian poetry with religious, biblical and apocryphal motifs, published as a special issue of Stremež. Also he compled an anthology of youth Macedonian poetry, Unidentified Celestial Bosom (2001).
He won The Enchanting Poet Award for excellent contribution in poetry writing, given by The Enchanting Verses International poetry journal. His poetry have appeared in many literary magazines and is represented in a number of anthologies. Eternijan has been translated into several languages.
He is a member of the Macedonian Writers' Association, The Poetry Society and of the World Poets Society. He worked as a Director and Editor-in-Chief in Publishing House "Makavej" (2000) and as a Officer in Department for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia (2001).