Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

ERIK ONDREJICKA
Erik Ondrejicka was born May 1, 1964 in the Old Town of
Bratislava where he still lives and works in the exact technical
branch of surveying and geodesy after being graduated at the
technical university. He has devoted to writing poetry for more
than two decades. In 2004 Ondrejicka debuted with a collection
of poems entitled “On the Inner Side of Eyelids”. In 2006 the
second collection of poems “Dance of Evening Snow Flakes”
was published. In 2008 Ondrejička together with musician
Miloš Železňák created a musical-poetic CD entitled “The Five
Perfections and Other Poems”. In 2009 he released a collection (e)
Pigrams and a children’s book of rhymes entitled “What Is Hidden
in the Pencil”. He is a member of the PEN Slovak Centre and the
Club of Independent Writers.
Before the storm
The sky that a while ago was almost solitary
is hurrying to load all her artillery
she mixes on the palette a grey so full of steel
that the trees under its burden tipsily reel
But still no brush in the sky has opened the salute
of thunderous cannonade to a painter’s repute
only a distant lark winging where the winds lead him
and singing over and over the single word freedom
And somewhat mournfully
somewhat drowsy and slow
acacia blooms in the garden lushly shower snow
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