The embroidered bridge (cross)

[Djamila]

The Embroidered Bridge
By Nashia Kapidzic-Hadzic





If you ever come to the city of leaves
You will be our dearest guest
You will see how grass-covered banks
Hold a bridge

The bridge is embroidered with silky thin thread
Woven of seven colors
The green river is a mirror in which it looks
It is decorated with a sunny day

The wind carries boats
Along sandy shores
Lightning bugs fly above it
Shining in the dark

Under the bridge there is a miraculous
Orchestra of summer
And two crickets, singing in a duet
Filling the night with their
Most beautiful song in the world

If you ever come to the city of leaves
You will be our dearest guest
You will cross with light steps
The embroidered, fragile bridge

[Sunstone]

I like the way this poem blends a human construction with nature. It's a pleasant poem.

[Buttercup]

Is that in Mostar or Sarajevo? And if he's writing about the bridge above....that's a very old bridge. Lovely photograph.

[Djamila]

It's in Mostar, and she's writing about that bridge, yes.