P L A N E TA R I S M aphorisms & photos
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For the publisher Pavlina Adzi Mitreska Lazarevska
Translation into English Zorica Teofilova Computer photo editing Dane Brdarski Design of the cover Simco Sandulovski Graphic layout Mirko Davidovski
Kiro Urdin
GHOSTS 2013
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The uniform you need to enter into is a
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The water under the withered trunk is not a spring, it is only a memory that it was once born there.
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The sand grains are worried, soon the Sahara won’t be able to gather them all in.
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Between me and you an invisible point floats, the first to catch it will be the first to begin a sentence.
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The number you are looking for is wind, if you reach it, it’s already in a different place.
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The colour flowing down the wall has a red line, previously the soldier fired upon order.
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It’s morning, when the day passes over it, the night will give birth to it again.
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When I was little, my dearest home was the street made of sand, now it echoes with steps upon concrete blocks.
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In front of you is the wall from which my echo has to reflect, if you are on both sides, I’ll be both your friend and your enemy.
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The grain wanting to be carried to an unknown place by the wind now dreams of going back.
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The black intoxicated by the smell of the flowers made the lea blue, but with it night fell and they closed inside themselves.
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The ball of success is rolling towards you, if you are a pyramid it will reach the top.
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The falling leaf dies together with the life in me, underground they will meet with the four seasons.
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It’s dead season now and no one is moving, afterwards time will do that instead.
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A solitary eagle languishes on the bough of the withered trunk, when the boughs were green, more eagles had more green nests.
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The woman gathering her soul in the suitcase is preparing to travel beyond, she will continue to live in the traces of her shadow.
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I’ll send you the night on a cloud, if it begins to rain know that those are tears of love.
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Do you see the machine behind you, when it becomes a robot you‘ll be behind it.
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The straw in the sea waves doesn’t know how to swim, the one knowing this is heavier than it.
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The crown witness lost his head even before the process began.
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With one end I shall tie the string, and with the other I shall sew it.
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The drop that hit the top of the head hit the mark, below it was a dessert.
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Open the window when there is fog, it wants to see how man becomes sky.
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The shadow moving along the street is empty, the bird above it no longer has a nest.
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Behind the smoke clinging to the glass is destiny, waiting for the moment when it will break inside it.
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The Seine is here and bridges move above it, if the light blinds you know that Paris flows inside you.
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The wheel you imagine has a soul, its steps are traces one moment, a line the other.
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All that has passed through this gate shall not return, except time which passes in everything and without everything.
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It’s night time and the dark conscience can no longer see the evil in its eyes.
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Two silhouettes enter one another, between them is vanity moving in two directions.
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We’ll meet again when you are a cloud and I’m rain falling under you.
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I write the last letter on a stone, if I’m ever drowning, let me sink in it.
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The seed you tread upon is a future flower, it cries in order to travel to a different place.
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Let us be cautious with the crystals in the heart when earthquakes begin to shake the soul of love.
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Don’t tear the paper if it’s a love letter, such papers never get old.
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The crack split the ray in two, each lighting its own half.
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The rolling ball is an illusion, if you reach it it’s already passed into another ball.
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Now you are a river between two desserts, if you become a cloud rain on both sides.
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Several horizons together – volume.
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If you hadn’t entered me no one would have known that your shadow covered me.
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Wake up, it’s autumn now and the fog is moving.
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The dog is man’s most loved friend, and the cat is the most wanted one.
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Take a breath before you go for a run, further on the air is wind.
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At last I became a root, my soul is growing downwards.
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My affirmative word is – no.
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I understood everything about my wife, the others have established it long ago.
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Every moment of life is important, and each separately is most important.
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My next step depends on the ground I tread on.
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I’ll correct the text in order to cut short the sentence.
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Defeat the tongue that spits poison with honey in the soul.
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The entire text flew out of my mouth in one sign, tumultuous love times have arrived.
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I’ll erase part of the space in order to add time in its place.
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Neither you are inside, nor I’m outside, only the empty corridor is between us.
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Looking at the train moving, two worms commented: – This one is longer that the two of us together.
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It’s spring now and the sky’s soul is in bloom, let the love insects inseminate your heart as well.
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I’ll circle the Earth in order to reach the place from where you set off.
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Come to your senses, it’s autumn now and the fog is moving.
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The secondary topic is on the agenda, the primary one will begin in several months.
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The fourth estate sometimes pricks, other times it pins.
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Sometimes I rely on my instinct, but my wife does it more often.
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I’ll smuggle friendship, if there are no customs it is legal I pass with lot of goods.
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I love everything because I love you, I hate everything because I’ll hate myself if I don’t love you.
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This wall turned black after the night leaned on it.
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I swung in vain and thus I hit the target I was looking for.
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The flower became a falling fruit, when it sunk under itself new life was born.
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The sun is born in the east, it warms in the south and it cools in the north.
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If you make the same mistake everyday, I’ll issue you a mistaken diploma.
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The old time is up, the big fish remained on the surface again.
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In one eye the tear dries out, and on the other side of the continent it comes forth from the other eye.
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If my wish comes true, you can inherit it after I’m dead.
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There’s no difference between land and water, sometimes the former is above the latter, other times it’s vice versa.
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I fly in an airplane but wish it was a submarine, so that I can be between them.
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I want to remain repulsive to you when you read my text, if I say it verbally I’ll have to do it with a smile.
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Concentrate on one spot, if it is your universe.
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The theatre performance turned into scandal, the actors stripped the audience naked.
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I’ll send my love in an envelope, if the mailman is curious it will fly away.
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The bullet rushing towards the antelope is an experiment, it will end up in empty or in full.
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I understood hatred at last, it hates what it finds unreachable.
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By no means can I pass the horizon, maybe I’ll succeed if I try from underneath.
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We need two doors in order to meet, one for you to enter, and the other for me to exit.
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I can’t go ahead if I don’t turn my back on the one pushing me forward.
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Add a bit more to me so that I can give my best.
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I’ll be on time so that I can make a mistake at the right moment.
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Does democracy have a bottom? If it does, it’s a hole.
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Instead of farewell greet me with see you soon.
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The uniform they’re making is for me, but I keep thinking it’s going to be too tight.
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Don’t cut down the tree before the seeds lay in its grave.
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The increased number of farms has shown that man is descended from animals.
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I’ll say either yes or no – if I’m neutral they’ll have difficulty understanding me.
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A minute later, several years behind.
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The tongue spoke one thing, but the ear had its own version.
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Don’t spit after the word which others have to swallow.
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I’ll raise a complaint and I’ll lower it under an indictment.
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On the 8th March I love you with a rose, on the other days I’m without auxiliary equipment.
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The home ground is an advantage, and the foreign one a perspective.
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Lot of money gives you a headache, the lack of it a migraine.
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I’ll erase the line, so that they can’t notice the boundary of my spirit.
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The evil succeeds in this world, the most evil succeeds in the future one.
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The seasons in the equator are summer.
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Archaeology uncovers two truths, one under ground, and the other buried above it.
CIP – Каталогизација во публикација Национална и универзитетска библиотека „Св. Климент Охридски“, Скопје 821.163.3-84 URDIN, Kiro Ghosts / Kiro Urdin; [Translation into English Zorica Teofilova]. – Skopje: Magor, 2013. – 120 стр.: илустр.; 20 см ISBN 978-608-223-252-2 I. Urdin, Kiro види Урдин, Киро COBISS.MK-ID 94024970
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