Oh, Love, Poetess - Tanja Ajtic, Serbia/Canada

Biography of Tanja Ajtic, Serbia/Canada
 
 
Tanja Ajtic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She lived and studied in Serbia. She is a poet and writer but she is also an artist. She also deals with fine graphics. Since 2002, she lives and creates in Canada. Moved to Belgrade, Serbia 2023.
 
Tanja Ajtic is a member of many groups and associations. In Serbia, she is a member of the prestigious Society of Writers of Belgrade. Her poems and stories have been published two hundred collections (books), anthologies and electronic books. Her poems have been published in English, Serbian, Chinese, Croatian, Iraqi, Bengali, Indian, Bulgarian, Tunisian, Spanish and Arabic languages. She published her book "Outlines of Love".  She participated with books and anthologies at many fairs in the world with other authors.
 
In 2024 and 2025, Ajtic collaborated with Indian poet Sourav Sarkar on two joint poetry collections that present two works by the poet in one book.
 
- She won second prize in Great Britain from the Serbian Library in London (2019).
- She won III World Prize for Excellence "Cesar Vallejo" 2021 in the category of artistic excellence Lima, Peru, by the World Spanish Union of Writers and International Award of Excellence; from the World Spanish Union of Writers, UHE Mexico.
- She won the I International Award of Excellence "Cita Del Glateo" Antonio De Ferrariis, IX edition 2022 – Rome, Italy, a prestigious award in the group of poets for the English language (IX edition of the award for foreign poetry in English) in 2022, Rome, Italy.
- Winners of Foundation Naji Naaman literary prize iz 2023; (21st Edition), from the Republic of Lebanon, Honor Prize (for complete work) for Literary prizes 2023. Poetry for the competition was submitted in three languages: English, French and Arabic.
- Winning the 2023 “Zheng Nian Cup” Literary Award – Third Prize by the Beijing Mindfulness Literature Museum, China.
- Winning Third Prize, Friedrich Schiller International Literary Competition (2025).
- Won the Grand Prix at "Literary Azia - 2025" Kazakh (2026).
- Lido Dell'Anima, Awards from Italy, Rome, NICHITA STANESCU AWARD 2026.
 
 
She is the winner of many awards, diplomas and certificate. She is currently writing poetry, short stories, haiku, Gogyoshi poetry as well as graphics artist as a freelance artist.




Oh, Love

 Tanja Ajtic, Serbia/Canada


Oh, love, almighty love,
You who lift us up to the heavenly heights
And the one who breaks us on hard ground,
Scatter us.

Oh, love, strong sincere love, where we surrender
Before you, where all the secrets we reveal,
Where we become innocent, children.
Love, where everything revolves around us,
Both the world and we in the world,
In a whirlwind, in happiness indescribable,
In the sorrow we haven't gotten over you
Hold us and with a scream of pleasure you
Fill our chests
And with a scream of pain we die with you.

Oh, love... There's no indifference there,
No mediocrity, no lies, sincere love,
There's no pretending,
There we get crushed by emotions,
Passion, there we completely give ourselves,
There we give ourselves in eruptions of all
We have ever felt.
Love, you who move the world,
You who are the originator
Of everything, someone and sin,
You rule hearts and we cannot resist you
Because we always want you, love.
And you come suddenly,
You come when we don't expect you, there,
Around the corner, you're lurking
And when you meet us,
When you surprise us, to you we are left only,
And ready to everything share with the other
Loved being, we are ready for sacrifices
And heroism, for great words that come
From our lips, from our belly and heart,
From the throat, from the body,
In vibrating sounds, in a time that cannot be
Waited any more, we're eager to see what brings
A new day, and this now, this now in love,
In this present time of, maybe, losers.

Oh, love, almighty love, mercy we ask you for,
May your light last as long as possible in this,
Our, darkness.