ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

 

White Dove

 

Someone hanged a dead bird

on the bough of a withered tree.

Feathers fell like a white shroud

for the tufts of grass and the plastic garbage.

I don't know who nor why did it,

why he stole the pigeon's wind from its wings.

 

“What a sad allegory”, I thought

“Here are humanity and the Earth.

Our poisoned planet is dying of thirst

and we string up peace.”

 

Melati and Isabel Wijsen

 

Plastic Bags

 

They fell like autumn leaves

on river waters and soil.

They drift in the seas and oceans

 

Eternally white,

almost immortal

- they are not subject

to the cycles of nature.

 

The leaves of the trees will rot

and they will crumble to dust.

Plastic will last forever.

 

They were supposed

to be a godsend,

replace paper

to protect the trees.

 

They have become a curse

and seeped in everywhere.

They are suffocating the planet.

Conversation With My Son

 

Twenty years of memories divides us.

We are running in different directions

from the point called the present.

The colors of the past

are blurred in the future.

 

There is a lot going on in your world

- milk has more to do with carton than with a cow.

You do not repair things

 and interpersonal relationships.

See - mountains of rubbish

and human loneliness grow.

 

You do not have time to talk.

The speed of exchange of thoughts

depends on the pace of writing.

You express indignation with large letters,

colorful emoticons

replace your facial expressions.

 

Take a look at old parents,

you will receive the warmth of hugging.

We will not wait forever,

time will separate us.

Hurry up

- I'm worried that dinner will cool down.

 

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).