ANNA CZACHOROWSKA

 

 

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Are pain and life not related?

                                                 Zeno of Citium

 

Why does life

hurt so much?

Sadness again

and despair

 

In a line

 

Naked thoughts

in a cold bed

 

And dreams hidden

 

Bottled Up

 

 

                                   If it was possible to sleep away death in stages...

          Stanisław Jerzy Lec

 

 

A desire of mine

(unruly perhaps)

was to fall into death’s arms

Dance, dance all the time!

for her new souls entice

 

When she knocks decoyed with a thought

it takes me long to answer the door

For fear and the reverse prayer

 

Don’t take me away yet…please no

 

Translated By:  Anna Maria Stępień

 

ANNA CZACHOROWSKA

 

ANNA CZACHOROWSKA was born in Warsaw. She graduated from the Warsaw University. She is a member of Polish Writers’ Union, a member of the Board of Association for the Promotion of Polish Creative Output, a member of Polish Authors’ Association, a member of Movimiento Poetas del Mundo, and also a member of Slavic Academy of Literature and Arts in Bulgaria. She publisher eight books of poetry: I Was the Rose of Your Winter, Touching Happiness, LoveKnockedat the Door, Before the Sun Descends the Slope,17 Ljóð, In the Anteroom of Dreams, In the Anteroom of Dreams– Polish-English edition, With an Outstretched Wing– Polish-English-Spanish. They were published in numerous Polish poety anthologies and included in the Anthologies of Polish Authors’ Association. Her poems also appeared in international literary magazines, e.g. in AZAHAR literary magazine in Spain. Her works were translated in to Russian, English, Spanish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Belorussian, Slovak, Serbian, Italian, Greek, Telugu and in to Icelandic (a whole book: 17 Ljóð). In 2016 and 2017, Anna Czachorowska’s poems with Her biographical note were published in the Anthology of World Poets (Una Antologia Anual de Poetas del Mundo). In the years 2018-2021 her poems appeared in Anthologies which were the outcome of Poetry Festivals in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and India. In May 2011, she was awarded the Honorary Decoration for Merit to Polish Culture by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In May 2017, she received Gloria Artis Bronze Medal from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In October 2022, Anna Czachorowska received the Honorary Decoration of Polish Writers’ Union for distinguished service to this organization.