ВЛАДИМИР Ј. ПЕТКОВИЋ IV8 - НАГРАДНИ КОНКУРС СОНЕТА ЗА СРЕДЊОШКОЛЦЕ УНИВЕРЗИТЕТА У НИШУ

Владимир Ј. Петковић IV8, ученик Осме београдске гимназије, освојио је треће место на наградном конкурсу сонета за средњошколце Универзитета у Нишу, са текстом написаног сонета,

Marble Winter

The marble corridors grow pale beneath the night,

Cold chandeliers recall a long-extinguished fire.

My shadow walks beside me, obedient and white,

A quiet servant to a famished old desire.

The air tastes faintly now of iron and of dust,

As though the walls themselves had learned at last to bleed.

I place my faith in nothing, yet I must

Continue breathing through this hollow need.

Some distant dawn will rise without my name,

Indifferent to the ashes in my chest.

The world proceeds exactly just the same.

And blood grows calm where once it would not rest.

So let the morning judge what I became –