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| Viktor Radun Teon |
in the downfall
there is a kind of poetry
as you fall flat, headfirst
you decode the very space
you rush toward inevitability
while blood boils in your veins
and your skin shrinks to a point
as you fall, you do not dream
you are not cold
only a scream leaks
from your clenched body
and spreads through the air
you remember your name
you feel contempt for the cliff
from which you hurled yourself
down, into the abyss
into the river that patiently awaits you
into which you will enter
into darkness
as into the womb you once left
how this fall now seems ridiculous
and you can't wait to hear the splash
as if the water is greeting you
and it no longer matters
how your day went
why you stopped seeing meaning
and suddenly you understand Camus
but the river you fall into
loves no philosophy
and knows no meaning
Hunting Wild Poems
thousands and thousands
of exterminated verses
the search never
becomes a notion
the metaphysics of a poem
rings within me
I am caught
there’s nowhere to go
a garden was given to me
I leap over the abyss with my tongue
where fire
remains in ashes
where
wandering echoes
condense into a chirp
the ontology of the poem
thinks for itself
in the garden, noble words grow
come, pick them
drink from the verses
the more you pick
the faster they will grow
Biographical note – Viktor Radun Teon
Viktor Radun was born
in 1965 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. He lives in Novi Sad, Serbia. He
works as a professor of economics, management and ecology at
the Faculty of Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, at the University of Business Academy.
His research fields
and interests include economy, ecology, ethics, future studies, poetry and
fiction, translation (English and Macedonian), philosophy and spiritual
development. In addition to Serbian (his native language), he is fluent in
English and Macedonian.
He published 17 books and more
than 75 scientific papers in various publications (management, marketing,
ecology, global economics), and more than 50 essays and articles (future
studies, philosophy, spiritual development, literature).
He has published
poems, essays, reviews and stories in various important literary magazines in
Serbia and Macedonia. He translated many books and articles on economics, management,
spiritual development and philosophy from English. His poetry was translated in
English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Macedonian, Slovenian and
Bulgarian language.
He participated at the
Struga Poetry Evenings, N. Macedonia, in 1995, the International Novi Sad Literature
Festival 2016-22, Serbia and the Bitola Literature Memories, N. Macedonia,
2022-23.
Published books: a) Poetry: The Egg of Unicorn, 2008; Competition
on Target, 2008; Babylon Falls, 2012; The miracle of the Phoenix, 2013; Blood and Rose, 2016; The Serpent of the Storm, 2019; The
House of Stone and Sun, Anthology (co-author), 2019; The Manifest of the Stone, 2020; The Manifest of the Stone (Manifest
na kamenot), Macedonian edition, 2023; The Challice, 2024; On the
Dew of Words, Anthology of Serbian Metaphysical Poetry, 20th
century, 2023; b) Philosophy, mysticism: Light
within Man, 2010 and 2017; The Great
Beast, 2017; The Temple of Ecstasy, 2017;
Transhumanism: Future without humans, 2018;
Towards the Transhuman, 2025; c) Essays: Eros of the Unspeakable,
2024.
Membership: Association of Writers of Serbia, Matica
Srpska, Association of Journalists of Serbia, Association of Journalists of
Vojvodina and New Media, International Academy of Ethics, Institute for
Science, Culture and Art (INAKU).
Editorship: Editor of publishing company Intelekta,
Valjevo; editor of magazines Brankovina and Limes Plus.
Main awards: shortlisted for the award "Nikola Milošević" for the book Transhumanism, the future without people (2018); international award "Goceva Misla" for contribution to the cultural mission, development and nurturing of art, science and culture, as well as understanding and cooperation between peoples (2022); international award "Mosaic" for the achievement of a foreign author, within the international literary event "11. Memories of Bitola" ("11. Bitola wisdom") (2022); international prize "Zheng Nian Cup" of the National Competition for Literature, Calligraphy, Painting and Photography in China (2023).
