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TIBOR KOCHIK
Slovak poet Tibor Kočík was born on 5th of December 1952
in Košice. He had studied special pedagogy and journalism. He
worked as a teacher, publishing editor and journalist. Slovak
literature perceived him as a poet, essayist, journalist and editor.
He had debuted with a collection of poetry called „Inland“, in
which is also found the poem “Birds”. Afterwards he issued various
collections such as The Variable Bottom, The Postcards and The
Sketches, The Meeting of Free Fall, The Long Journey/ The Rose
Garden, The Copperplate of Soul, To Be Instead of To Have and
The Zone. He is also the author of the fine art essays entitled The
Fragments Between The Times.
Birds
Childhood dreams snapped in an alley of trees
We’ve ejected us from the nest
And we don’t fly to the south.
Chains, clamped above the eyes of the bread and the love, rattle
Oh, what a love
It is already discolored to Blondine
Already waiting at the stations
Where the farewell stands between us
It will shake the motors
It will assuage the pains
And it will spread out the wings.
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