Warning

Antun Branko Šimić

Man, be careful
not to walk small
under the stars.

May your whole body
be filled with
the dim light of the stars!

To have no regrets
when with the last glances
you part with the stars!

In your final hour
instead of dust
pass whole to the stars.

Today is the World Day of Poetry. This, now traditional, celebration of poetry, dedicated to the popularisation of reading, writing, publishing poetry, and the study of poetic expression, was founded by UNESCO in 1999 in Paris.

Thus, the proclamation of World Day of Poetry was recognised as an opportunity and a way to express unity and human creativity.

Although poetry is difficult to define, it is still attempted to be defined as “a concrete expression of the human spirit in artistically sensitive and rhythmic language.”