Thanksgiving Terenty Travnik

THANKSGIVING

A huge layer of the poetic heritage of Terentia Travnik is dedicated to the Creator. Turning to the poem "... I will assemble the whole world into the palm of my hand and grow Jesus Christ", you clearly understand where in the poems of the poet there are so many Words of Love: Christ is God the Word, the essence of the Christian teaching is Love. It was this love that relieved the poet's heart of "many-letter melancholy" and "by placing the dots on top of" and "he" forwarded his verses into God's hands ":"

And the spirit of the law answered me:
"You are planetary in Christ.
Have love - and with this light
You can be yourself everywhere. "

Each line of poems about God rests directly or indirectly on the biblical legend, at the same time it has a sharp topical meaning, is poetic, precise, concrete and symbolically multivalued. The poet reveals the deepest meaning of God in his life, sees his destiny as a human being in:

To discover in oneself talent and grow to the fruit
This ability to glorify the Creator,
To know the true freedom with Him
And with this to be until the very end.

In one of the letters the poet writes: "I love and create a word - the Word, life - life and I give it to YOU, my Lord, and I see your response - the image in each receiving." All poetic creativity of the poet is permeated with the thanksgiving of God "for every sigh that was given to me from above", for "wounds of the heart, tearful cry of the soul". How triumphant are the lines of the poet's gratitude:

I thank the Creator for my birth,
For every new day, for a moment, a lifetime,
For all their mistakes, for doubts,
For the difficulties he has been accustomed to.

Imbued with the poetic beauty and depth of religious feeling, all the poems of Terenty Travnika, dedicated to God, in an amazing way coincide with the psalms of King David. In these poetic works there are many reflections of the author on eternal themes, appeals to his soul, there are edifying verses that open divine revelations to his reader. In some verses you hear the words of thanksgiving and the ascension of pure praise to the Creator, in others you hear the cry of the soul in a state of sorrow, the third - the sorrow of the soul with tears of repentance, with the awareness of your weakness and insignificance, and there are special - appeals-prayers to God for all of us:

Lord, forgive me for being so
What dared with his line
I am for all human grief
Stand before You again
Not ink, but pain
These lines fill.

And the poet prays, that "the poor and the sick, the poor, the poor and the grieving" gave the Lord "a little real paradise" - peace in the soul and love. You read such poetic lines and the soul, "washed by angelic water," raises monotonous words of gratitude to God along with the poet. Prayer is a special, exalted state of the soul -

Prayer is more than a poem,
In her, prose sings poetry,
She also calls in silence with the wordless,
And with faith in the heart she hopes and waits.

The poet devoted a theme of repentance to the cycle of poems "Crying, my soul ...". These "tears of repentance" and "tearful sighs" are thoroughly imbued with an understanding of their own non-dignity, infirmities, pouring into the scream of the soul: "Pray ...". In the poetic lines of such tearful evocations to God, the poet very organically interweaves the words of prayer, and from this the poem is even more perceived as a prayer psalm:

But in the whispers of my insane,
According to the multitude of Thy bounties,
Hearken unto me, O God, Wise,
Hear me, O God, and cleanse.

Up to meat, to clean bone
All my iniquities.
I am an unworthy, fallen, beggar -
I fall ... to Your Love.

In this fragment the poet consciously emphasizes his unworthy, fallen state of mind, starting the line with the capital letter "I". The correct path of spiritual life leads a person to humility, which results from seeing his sinfulness, his weakness. St. Peter Dama-skin says this: "The first sign of the soul's health is the vision of the sins of its countless, like the sand of the sea."
In all the poems of a penitential tendency, the poet's humility is seen from the vision of his sinfulness and the expression of hope for the mercy of God in the work of saving the soul by his poetic creativity. By repentance the poet co-composes his soul, and with his penitential word sings the Savior:

From now on I create my soul -
The Talent Entrusted by You
And I create - repentance ...
And repentance - I sing -
You, Lord, my Savior.

Sincere soulful outpourings in the verses of repentance are a powerful emotional and psychic influence on the reader's soul - the reader's soul begins to pray together with the author, and at that moment there may be awareness, catharsis. For example, in the poem "My God, forgive us a sinner ..." the poet brings repentance from all of us to his contemporaries, "weak and sinful": drunkards, who drink their lives, officials with undeserved merits, rich people - for "foraging and money" A whim, a thief; Soldiers, who were afraid of the weakness of the soul; Men and women who are offended by life and who do not know how to bring their business to the end. Reading these lines, involuntarily you know yourself, and those with whom you come into contact in life. And taking in the soul the words of the author, shuddering from the unsightly truth of our life and our affairs, to which the poet turned our attention, he himself begs forgiveness:

Lord, forgive us sinners,
The smallness of souls and the infirmity of bodies.
Lord, forgive ignorance
Your words, commands, deeds.

Terentyi Travnik, who knows the language of faith in his heart, as a word missionary leads his readers to believe in God. As if the tongue of the flame of the Spirit touched the poet and opened in him a gift with every poetic line to chant the Creator and sow the grain of faith in the hearts of his readers. This is the apostolic path. Touching on the poetic lines of the hearts of his readers, the poet "speaks with his soul about the eternal", and changing his heart, filling with simplicity and "correcting grief for rest," brings a piece of the flame of the Spirit into their hearts. The strength of the Orthodox Christian and poetic feelings of T. Travnik leads to the realization of eternal spiritual values and awakens a keen interest in the reader to the depths of spiritual poetry. Truly - "Poetry is the gene pool of the spirit. The ancients valued precisely the poets "-so, T.Travnik about poetry responds to you.




From the poet's diary:

"When I think about donating, I always imagined ... a poem. What is more than the verse given to me from above, I can give to my native person, what is the greatest thing I can create for people, for peace? Nothing! And the whole thing is in a line, a special line, a line that is missing by itself, through each of its cells. He tried to answer and still did not say anything. Is it possible to tell the poet about his poem more than what he wrote in the verse? To think, only one line and ... many, many wonderful words and words addressed to it and unable to fully express the depth of its essence, the depth of one poetic line!
Oh, a poetic word, how beautiful you are with your clarity, rhythm, uniqueness! If our speech were all poetic, it would be perfect, complete, holy. Indeed, in the words of the Apostle Paul, "from the abundance of the heart our mouth speaks." Indeed, "in the beginning was the Word," as it is clear now, when for the first time you will write a real, life-long line. "


THANKS ... November 2007