ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

 

Symbol

 

You said: I am a zero.

I thought: so am I.

Must everyone be number one

in the race for wealth and fame?

Look—

two zeros, joined,

become the sign of infinity.

They hold within them

all numbers, the universe itself.

We carry the memory of genes,

and each of us is singular.

 

Butterfly Effect

 

A butterfly settled on the windowpane —

a dancer of light and shadow,

a living tale of metamorphosis

in the kingdom of insects.

Its wings, painted with colourful spots,

gazed like great eyes,

playing with bold hues,

filled with sunlight and wind.

Time paused within the frame.

A magical stained glass appeared,

a lyrical poem of love,

scattered notes in the silence.

The butterfly drifted away, silent.

Leaving the glass with rainbow glow,

and a subtle motion, like a storm,

tilted the fragile course of history.

 

Transcendence

 

It is hard to let go of emotions,

hard to forget what desire is,

hard to clear the mind of chaos

and to look deep within oneself.

There, one can find the primal light —

a brightness that shines upon

the tree of knowledge, of good and evil,

and whispers softly:

only love matters in life.

 

No one will remember the brand of a car,

nor the colour of the walls,

nor the tags sewn into clothes.

The scent of fine perfume will fade.

Everything will turn to dust, to ash, to nothing.

 

Yet someone will remember, years later,

a smile,

words spoken in comfort,

a few coins given,

a handshake, a kiss.

The small, the fleeting, the essential,

the free, the most precious,

return in memory,

lifting the soul toward eternity.

 

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).