ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

 

Hunger In Gaza

 

I eat grass.

It grows on land scorched by shells.

I swallow sand.

I am like all those

who died in line for flour.

Flour and sand,

grass and wheat —

so alike, yet so different.

I cry from hunger, despair, helplessness.

No one hears me, no one sees.

I live in a city of the dead.

Millions of glass eyes watch me —

indifferent and cruel.

A screen of glass separates two worlds:

the safe one, anchored in comfort,

and the open-air concentration camp.

Stone hearts,

blind eyes,

silent mouths —

the fed will never understand the starving.

With my last breath,

I will scream the truth —

fearless, it will shatter the glass world.

 

History

 

It judges all with justice,

opens the eye of wisdom in the triangle,

studies the life of man with care,

and weighs the weight of word and deed.

It keeps the names of the chosen

in the memory of nations,

stands unshaken as a guard

of moral reckoning.

It sees genius in works once scorned,

lifts the humiliated, casts the mediocre into oblivion.

It honours the ridiculed painting of sunflowers,

listens, moved, to forgotten melodies,

and marvels at the beauty of words

written by mocked poets — beggars in their time.

It barely mentions the names of mighty rulers

in long tales about a humble carpenter from Nazareth.

It celebrates the young Indian prince

who gave up glory and gold for enlightenment.

Defender of truth — incorruptible, impartial,

it names things plainly; despising lies and hypocrisy.

Like a stone monolith, it rises from the ocean of time,

while the eternal wind shifts the chaff from the grain.

 

Gaza

 

In Bethlehem

the silence becomes louder and louder—

it echoes between the sky and the earth.

The street lamps have closed their eyes,

the ruined houses are silent.

The wind blows through the deserted streets.

 

A crying woman can be heard in the distance.

She was about to leave —

she was left alone among the rubble

and picks through it with bloody fingers.

Hope makes her believe,

that she will hear the word "mom"

 

In the city,

purple dust stretches to the horizon.

The mourning sun lost its warmth and glow.

The mother found her massacred child

and in that moment her world died.

 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).