The paper analyses Drago Štambuk's poetry collection Kad su mȉši balȁli molfrȋnu (2017), by which the author persistently promotes the trinity principle of the Croatian language summarized in the "golden formula of ča-kaj-što". In his language choices, the author consciously reverts to the sources of the Croatian language by"remembering" in his own poetic code the older and newer Croatian literary tradition. Examples are presented primarily at the lexical level.