ANNA ZAPALSKA

ANNA ZAPALSKA

RETURN TO MEADOWS (SONNET II)

Wild green rivers amid scent of forest moss

Have overflowed this land with waves of flowers,

As if rainbows have fallen down out of sky gloss...

And the ground could drink bliss from divine powers,

As if all smiles of the world have one face

And all birds' songs have come out from one small throat,

Such an unbelievable sense of huge space

Within landscape of heart that will always float,

Such a beautiful silence forever loud

Like Granny's songs sung at dawn in morning,

Like invisible flowers on whisp of cloud,

Like the smallest things, but still worth adorning.

Some memories are forever young like spring

And dreams bloom anew in spite of everything...

SUMMER NIGHT

Couldn't stop their hearts

Of those magnetic glances,...

When the youngest season

Went out of their eyes

And each short moment was

Like an eternal spring,

But now it lingers and pines

Like this river of never- ending longing...

IT MUST BE SOMETHING MORE

It must be something more

in this world of colourful plumes,

Something more than different pasta shapes

and more than plagiarism of life and death,...

It must be something more

than written and unwritten myths,

than sensual and wild kisses,

Something more than soul analysis of Proust,

Something more than words and signs,

Something more than all religions of world- put together,

There's more to it than meets the eye-

there's timeless river of Sense-

in the knowledge of birds,

in the longing of human,

in the swoosh of trees,

in the silent silence of God...

ANNA ZAPALSKA

ANNA ZAPALSKA was born in Poland. She is Polish poet, teacher and translator. Above all, poetry is the biggest passion of hers. Since childhood she was interested in literature and she belonged to  poetry groups. Near the end of primary school at age 14 she was placed first overall in her age group in the Polish Literature Contest. Anna studied Polish literature at Jagiellonian University and Human resource management in the School of Banking and Management in Cracow. After studies she worked as a Polish teacher in primary and secondary schools, where she used to conduct poetry and theatre groups. She also used to work for charity helping children from the pathological families.