KAZIMIERZ BURNAT

 

 

Slavic Uprousals

 

Let Your Spirit descend and renew

the face of the earth…

                                   John Paul II

 

I am accompanied by the proximity of evil

copying the behaviors

from Euromaidan

export of Kiev methods from February

(not November – December)

escalated by the use of the army

doing evident evil

in the name of good

what for –

 

there is no dialog among the living

but above the slain

different history

mentality language

the same life

why obstinately cling to

hard-headedness

the uncompromising attitude

 

omnipotent oligarchy

stifles resistance

eliminates fellow human beings

 

let bullets flamethrowers

tanks fall silent

tires cease smoking

and reason speak

with the power of the word

of the tamers of adversity

of a bad fate at one’s own request

at the request of eurosquares

eastsquares –

a likho

fueled by exorcists

of western democracies

 

it is time for judicious self-determination

for common song and dance

of the Slavs

 

for the Victory Day 

 

Inscrutability

 

Oh Love, in what madness

you tell us to find bliss!

Mariana Alcoforado

 

One year too far

sin dries up

look!

below – sunny hell

above – the twilight heavens

brightened up with a blend

of prayer and semen

bliss – a duty

of a religious human being

 

and there she is deeply sinful

finely silhouetted

swollen with greed

for the enlarging harpoon

sucked with a touch –

moist joy

of complicated liberty

the fruit – a child belonging to the welkin

 

one year too far

and under the alleys of arborvitae trees –

a metropolis of disbelievers

layers of graves

like at a dumping ground

right next to it a well of ecstasy

 

KAZIMIERZ BURNAT

 

KAZIMIERZ BURNAT ‒ Polish poet, essayist, translator of Slavic literature, journalist, literary critic, culture animator, born in Szczepanowice on the Dunajec River. Author of 31 books of poetry, including 8 translations from Czech and Ukrainian, and over 60 collective books with translations of works from these languages, as well as Belarusian, Russian, Slovenian and Hungarian. Co-author of approximately 400 anthologies and monographs published in Poland and abroad. Translated into 60 foreign languages. Organizer of the International Poetry Festival „Poets Without Borders” in Polanica-Zdrój. Honored with the Silver Medal „For Merit to Culture Gloria Artis” as well as the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Award for creative achievements (2023), and Shabdaguchha International Poetry Award (USA / Bangladesh 2023), among other prizes, national and international ones. Since 2015, President of the Lower Silesian Branch of the Polish Writers’ Union (ZLP) in Wrocław. Honorary Citizen of Polanica-Zdrój.