Winds

**What Do the Distant Mountains Keep Silent About** What do the distant mountains keep silent about? What were some children singing there long ago? What do the birds sing about from whose forests those children departed? About which herbs, about which horses, about which trees and birds did the girls of the ancient Slavs sing? How many children from the colorful mountains, how many from the slopes of Čakor were scattered by the winds toward the distances of the sea? About which cities beneath the burial mounds do the walls and wells of ancient times speak? About which races with the wind did the faces, hands and sails of the ships of the old Illyrian tribes speak? How many wondrous birds descended and built their nests among the stone cliffs? How many old cities sleep beneath the earth, how many stone letters in ancient prayers are washed by the rains and warmed by the Sun? How many winds howl above us and what stories do they carry to us, the carriages and wheels of time on the wings of an invisible bird... Text Branka L