Ksenija Premur’s poetry is intimistic, and critics list the features of her poetry as clarity, precision, impressiveness of straightforward images intertwining in poetic reflection, while the poems are being described as permeated with erotic and reflexive character. However the collection of poems titled „The Lighthouse“ brings forward poems leaning more towards metaphysical subjects than intimism and inner life of a lyric heroine. We might even say the fundamental dichotomy is what questions the relationship between the time and the eternal, the heavenly and the earthly. The choice of a lighthouse as a symbol of verticality is not random – it is a sign-post but also a connector between the heaven and earth. Ms Premur purifies her expression by removing all redundant images, turns to philosophemes, and her poems resemble short poetic disputes on the relation between the eternity and mortality, on the immortality of the soul. After reading the work it is clear the main subject of the collection is the Time. The poem “Celestial Clock” is what gives the main clue. As a basic opposition there are earthy and heavenly clocks: “tick-tock / tick-tock / beats the terrestrial clock / the death hour; / the hands of the celestial clock / slide around into a perpetuum mobile”. The eternity is beyond human’s reach; it is being revered in poems, and the elapse of the time shows the relentlessness of the mortality, with the constant reminders of death, memento mori.