MIECZYSŁAW A. ŁYP

MIECZYSŁAW

A. ŁYP

DREAM OF RADOMSKO

I return to the abundance of flowery cherries

Into a not fully conscious

Secret of beauty

The whirlwind of white and air

In huge green bays

The landscape with road

With scented crowns

Of swaying whispering linden

Of the Rożewicz town

Is my dearest image

And until today

The most important truth

To this fresco painted by me

With white parish church

With the monastery

Sunken in maroon silence

With ripe cherry and mature linden flowers

I add every night

White sails from Golden Horn

And white doves from blue Bosporus

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Sen o Radomsku

Powracam w nadmiar kwitnących wiśni

W nieuświadomioną do końca

Tajemnicę piękna

Wiru bieli i powietrza

W ogromnych zatokach zieleni

Ten pejzaż z dorgą z pachnącymi koronami

Rozkołysanych rozszeptanych lip

Z tego miasta Różewiczów

Jest moim najdroższym obrazem

I do dziś stanowi

Najważniejszą prawdę

Do tego malowanego preze mnie fresku

Z bielejącym kościołem Fary

Z klasztorem

Zatopionym w kasztanowej ciszy

Z bujnymi kwiatami wiśni

I dojrzałymi kwiatami lip

Co noc dodaję

Białe żagle ze Złotego Rogu

I białe synogarlice znad błękitnego Bosforu

SUNRISE

inspired by a painting of Jerzy Nowosielski

An orange ball of sun

From Nowosielski painting

On a monochromatic warm background

With burning scarlet frames

Rolls slowly

And slowly opens dawn over Heraclea

The light will soon swallow the sea

But here

It spreads

To small individual landscapes where

The edges of far horizons

connect

repeating abyss of sky and land

and so written

in Master’s voice

from saint icons saint apostles

silver churches and blues

I keep looking

A heavenly apple tree a sunny vineyard

And orange grove

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Wschód słońca

interpretacja obrazu J. Nowosielskiego

Pomarańczowa kula

z obrazu Nowosielskiego

na monochromatycznym ciepłym tle

z płonącymi szkarłatem obramowaniami

toczy się wolno

i wolno otwiera świt nad Heraklionem

Ten brzask tak jaśniejący

Za chwilę pochłonie morze

- tymczasem tu

rozprzestrzenia się on

na maleńkie pojedyńcze pejzaże

gdzie brzegi

dalekich szarych horyzontów

łączą

powtarzającą się oddal nieba i ziemi

I tak zapisany

W tej glosie Mistrza

Od świętych ikon świętych apostołów

Srebrzystych erkiewek i błękitów

Znów szukam

Rajskiej jabłoni słonecznej winnicy

I pomarzańczowego gaju

READING AN ICON

I enter the blue

Via broad trees of the olive grove

And the columns of temples

Hanging by murmuring sea

On white cliffs

My whisper

And my words

Are led by the dawn

Under the crown of skies

And skies

Like in a Nowosielski painting

Are all blue

As soft as an angel’s prayer

And nimbs of saint Cyril and saint Claus

I keep seeing

The beauty the light

The saturation

Of life and death

Of betrayal and sin

Forgiveness and penance

With holy colour of hope

With holy colour of our names

In world’s vast abyss

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Czytanie ikony

W błękit wchodzę

przez rozłożyste drzewa gaju oliwnego

i kolumny świątyń

wiszących u szumiącego morza

na białych skarpach

Mój szept

I moje słowa

Świt wyprowadza

Pod koronę niebios

A niebiosa

Jak u Nowsielskiego

- całe w błękitach

Łagodnych jak modlitwy aniołów

I nimby Świętego Cyryla i Świętego Mikołaja

Ciągle widzę

To piękno to światło

To nasycenie

Życia i śmierci

Zdrady i grzechu

Przebaczenia i pokuty

Świętą barwą nadziei

Świętą barwą naszych imion

W przepastnych otchłaniach świata

MIECZYSŁAW A. ŁYP

MIECZYSŁAW ARKAD IUSZ ŁYP  A poet, literary critic, editor, photographer. Born in 1947 in Radomsko. He is a graduate of the WSP Rzeszów and Postgraduate Military Psychology Academy in Warsaw. During the studies he was a member of the editorial group “Prometej” and a juror of the National Poetry Market for the Prometheus Laur. He was also the organizer of the first One Poem Tournament for the prize of Philology Department Dean and Open Doors Action for secondary school students in Rzeszów. He has been interested in the literature of war and occupation.

In 1990 he founded Rzeszów Military Painting Gallery at Military Psychological Centre. The gallery popularised culture and art of Podkarpacie among soldiers, recruits, personnel and army’s civil staff. Since 1993 he is the publisher of annual Landscapes (Krajobrazy) and since 2000 the editorial series “The Poets of Carpathian region”. He also supervised publishing two booklets of Artists of Carpathian Region (2000, 2004). Since the year 2003 he has been the academic teacher of “Polonus Centre” at Resovian University.

He published monograph Literary Youth of Rzeszow 1945–1990 (Rzeszów 1990). He is also the author of poetry On the paths of memory (Rzeszów 2005), Ars longa, vita brevis. (Rzeszów 2008), Genius loci. (Rzeszów 2009), In the land of golden music. Impressions from Futoma. (Rzeszów 2010), Orbis pictus. (Rzeszów 2010). Panta rhei. (Rzeszów 2012), Stained Glass from Futoma. (Rzeszów 2012), Christmas Eve Poems (Rzeszów 2012), Fare lights of  Radomsko (Rzeszów 2013), Collected Poems (Rzeszów 2013), Enchanted in linden (Rzeszów 2013).

He is a member of Polish Writers Association in Rzeszów (1993), co–founder of Rzeszow’s Friends Association (1987), the president of the artistic association “In Wislok’s Valley”(1998), and a member of the Photoclub Authors Association in Warsaw (1997). He is also an artist photographer. He is a double laureate of the “Golden Pen” award (1992, 2010), Resovian Governor Award (1992, 1995), and the City of Rzeszow Award (1995). In June 2012 he was awarded the Podkarpackie Voivodeship Board Award for the lifetime achievement in the arts as well as protection and promotion of culture.

Twice he was awarded the third prize of Agan Poetry for “A wreath of acanthus” (2010, 2011), Bydgoszcz (2012) Grand Prix. In the ninth edition of the International Poetry Competition “Dream about Carpathia 2012” he got a special award of authors environment and the local authorities of Municipality and Town Piwniczna–Zdroj. He won many awards and distinctions in Warsaw, Barcin, Leszno, Skamielna Czarna, Nowy Sącz, Piwniczna Zdrój.

Mieczysław A. Łyp is also the inspirer and organiser of the song poetry concerts based on the poetry of Carpathian region artists.

Photographic achievements of Mieczysław. A. Łyp are of no less importance. As a member of Photoclub Association in Warsaw he is a titled photographic artist. He has more than 51 individual exhibitions in his output and several national presentations in collective exhibitions (Warszawa, Kraków, Gliwice, Rzeszów, Łańcut). He has published three photographic catalogues.

Year 2011 is the time of presentation photographs from the journey to Turkey. 2012-2013 is the period of cooperation with Jacek Kaszyński, a photographer from Radomsko, author of works published in “Far Lights of Radomsko”. It is also a period of his own photographs preparation for the poetry booklet about Radomsko and work on photographs for “the Collected Poems”. In 2012-2013 also most of the photographs connected with Marek Twardy from Futoma works were created. He is the President of Rzeszow Branch of Polish Writer’s Union since 2015.