ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

 

Ryan Hreljac

 

Life-Giving Water

 

In the desert,

the cracked soil begs for a downpour

The cloudless sky is sparse in rain

Clouds follow different paths

and they rarely dance above the gray land.

 

The merciful mother Earth gives people

the gift of oases and underground rivers.

Artesian wells make dreams come true

about clean water and fertility.

 

Everyone can help and like a child

offer a thirsty man

one drop of clean water

and hope for a better fate

 

Collegiate Church In Kruszwica

 

In the autumn gilt of leaves,

on the banks of lake Gopło,

the stone collegiate church fell asleep.

 

Time stopped at the threshold of the temple.

It doesn't go inside

and freezes motionless.

 

It paused the hands of the clock

so that everything will continue

as it was centuries ago

- in the ancient beauty of history.

 

The lake tells legends and myths

about mice in the tower and nymphs,

It plays stories with waves.

 

The wind weaves in the twigs of forked willows

the words from Przybyszewski' s diary

about nostalgia and autumn sadness.

 

The church far from the city

does not follow the rhythm of life.

It is rooted in history.

 

I come and go.

I touch the mighty walls.

I am a fleeting moment.

 

Afternoon With Mom

 

a summer day blooms in an old photograph

a smiling girl is sitting on a stone

she has a meadow bouquet of wildflowers

chamomile petals whisper to her

a fortune about her beloved

 

on the next one a happy couple in the park

is walking together into the future

there is a little sun between them

their mystery of the black nights

 

next to me an old woman in an armchair

has faded eyes without hope

look at these pictures’ mom

time has stolen everything from you

and over a half from me

 

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).