ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

Weak Woman

 

She was told she was beautiful

like a girl from a renaissance portrait,

limp as a reed and weak as an ivy.

 

She believed she needed to find a man

mighty and oak-like,

to writhe among the branches,

follow the sun

and sparkle in the golden rays.

 

The storm has come.

It shattered the great tree,

lightning burned the magnificent crown

There's nothing left.

 

She's still beautiful

like a lady from an old portrait.

She understood that  

the wind would not break the reed,

the ivy can climb rocks

and head towards the stars.

 

Yo-Yo Ma

 

Concert

 

Cello at the touch of a bow

laughs and cries.

It leads the audience

in distant lands,

salons, poor huts

It frees thoughts from haste,

brings peace to the breath,

lights up time.

 

The strings tighten

and the music of the spheres flows

-filled with the harmony of the cosmos

And the cello

sings without words

about peace on earth,

love and brotherhood

 

September In Kazimierz Dolny

 

Autumn added baroque splendour to the city.

It repainted the leaves in Titian colours,

and gave the clouds Rubensian shapes.

 

The sun gilded

the Renaissance tenement houses.

Glittering rays poured out

between the shingles of the old houses,

sprinkled the waves of the Vistula

with silver brocade.

 

Time settled down

on the steps of the parish church.

It listened to the slow rhythm of the streets,

and in memories of an old town well

about the faithful dog and the two moons.

 

The minutes stopped.

The hours passed slowly.

 

The clock was ticking:

no need to rush,

run ahead.

For what?

It's beautiful here.

 

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA – awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor. In 2011 she published her first volume of poems entitled: “The Glass Reality”.  Her second volume “Analysis of Feelings”, was published in 2012. The third collection “Moments” was published in English in 2014, both in Poland and in the USA. In 2014, she also published the novel – “Virtual roses” and volume of poems “On the border of dream”. Next year her volume entitled “Girl in the Mirror” was published in the UK and “Love me”, “(Not) my poem” in the USA. In 2015 she also edited anthology entitled “The Other Side of the Screen”. In 2016 she edited two volumes: “ Taste of  Love” (USA), “Thief of Dreams” (Poland) and international anthology entitled “ Love is like Air” (USA).Next year she published volume in Polish entitled “ View From the Window”, collection of love poems in Arabic and English entitled “ Love like arabesque ( together with Egyptian poet Mandour Saleh Hikiel). In 2018 she published international anthology “Love Postcards” and her volume in Russian entitled “Selected poems”. She is a chief editor of series of anthologies entitled “Metaphor of Contemporary” (Poland) . Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Spain, Turkey, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Israel, the USA, Canada, India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Uzbekistan,  South Korea, China, Taiwan, South Africa, Zambia, Nigeria and Australia. Her volumes were translated into Albanian language by famous poet and academic Mr Jeton Kelmendi, into Telugu language by famous Hindu poet Mr Lanka Siva Rama Prasad, into Turkish by famous Turkish poet Metin Cengiz, into Italian by famous Italian poetess Maria Miraglia and into Arabic by famous Syrian poetess Shurouk Hammouud. She won : distinction (2014) and medal (2015) on Nosside poetry competition in Italy, statuette in Lithuania (2015), medal of European Academy Science, Arts and Letters in France (2018)), award of Cultural Festival International “Tra le parole e l’ infinito” Italy (2018) She was also twice nominated to the Pushcart Prize in the USA. Alicja Kuberska is a member of the Polish Writers Associations in Warsaw (Poland), E- literaci (Poland)and IWA Bogdani, (Albania). She is also a member of directors’ board of Soflay Literature Foundation (Pakistan), Our Poetry Archive (India). She is Polish Ambassador of Culture of The Inner Child Press (the USA). She belongs to Editorial Advisory Board of Sahitya Anand (India) and IPA Editorial (India).