ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

Sailing Through The Sky

 

In search of solitude, I left the Earth.

I erected sails of white clouds,

To wander the oceans of sky.

In the day, I marvel at the blue planet.

 

At night, silver stars bloom

And the lights of cities shine.

Continents form constellations.

I can hear only the wind

And twitter of the cosmos.

 

I traverse miles, get to know new orbits.

Time stopped, bestowed immortality.

I share the fate of ancient gods

-Isolation and longing for man.

 

Act of Leaving

 

In a hospital corridor, I met the Fates,

daughters of Zeus and Themis

playing with the golden thread.

Bored Lachezis stops spinning human destiny

and Atropos cuts life with a slow movement.

 

Everybody plays their roles like an ancient drama.

The patient speaks

about hope and pays homage to Hygeia,

doctors fashion decorations out of mystification,

the choir sing songs full of false consolation.

 

I feel the cold touch of Thanatos.

He gives me his slender, pale-fingered hand.

He stamps the grimaced face of the ill

with a mask a of pain,

takes the sparkle from the eyes,

paints shadows on the face.

 

Death has an odor of disinfectant

mixed with a stench of plates of uneaten meals.

Like a spider,

he clutches a man in the network of drips.

and, as a finale,

he sucks the last breath from the blue mouth.

 

In the last act the black winged angel

covers the bed with a white sheet.

In silence,

he creates an abstract sculpture

from the starched material.

 

The curtain falls without applause.

 

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).