Saturday, July 1, 2017

ANNA MARIA MICKIEWICZ


ANNA MARIA MICKIEWICZ


REGENT’S PARK

He proposed to
Invisible clouds
In Regent’s Park.

And she
Tangled by a rose muslin
Circled by the sun
Her golden feet
Walked through the glass door
Under the sky suspended
On a steel clock
At the top of Victorian towers
On a misty evening
Anna Maria Mickiewicz
London 2013







IT WAS NOT THEM

It was not them who ordered the trees to be silent
Who gagged the spring birds
They stand in the glow of the rising sun
Full of worries about what will happen
Anna Maria Mickiewicz







THE CAMELLIAS

Deep in thought, streets of camellias
Drowse

They wake up resonating with a smell of remembrance
Open their flowers, quickly stealing the sun’s rays

They wait for the Greek messengers
For the aromatic waft of sapphire waves

Day by day

Against the gleaming
Rim of the London sky ...
Anna Maria Mickiewicz
London 2009


Kamelie


Zasnute myślami kameliowe ulice
Drzemią

Budzą się dźwięcznie, zapachami wspomnień
Otwierają kwiaty szybko kradnąc promienie

Oczekują
Na greckich posłańców
Na aromatyczny powiew szafirowych fal

Tak każdego dnia

Otoczone blaskiem
Obręczą londyńskiego nieba...
Anna Maria Mickiewicz
Londyn


ANNA MARIA MICKIEWICZ


ANNA MARIA MICKIEWICZ is a Polish-born poet, writer and editor, who writes both in Polish and English. Anna lived in California and has now been in London for many years. She edits the annual literary magazine Pamiętnik Literacki (The Literary Notebook), London. She is a member of English Pen. As a student, she was a co-founder of a magazine Wywrotowiec (The Subversive). Her first collection of verse was published in 1985 and her selection of short stories and essays Okruchy z Okrągłego Stołu (Breadcrumbs from the Round Table) appeared in 2000. Her volume of poetry Proscenium was published in 2010. Anna’s poetry has appeared in the United States, UK, Australia and Poland in many literary journals, including Syndic Literary Journal (California), Kritya, The Exiled Link (UK), Poezja Dzisiaj, Akant (Poland) and anthologies, such as Chopin with Cherries. A Tribute in Verse, (Moonrise Press: Los Angeles, 2010), Through A Child’s Eyes: Poems from World War Two, selected by: Moira Andrew (Poetry Space Ltd: Bristol, 2013), Contemporary Writers of Poland, edited by: Danuta Blaszak (Dreammee Little City: Orlando, 2013). She regularly publishes poetry and literature in the London-based Nowy Czas - New Time - and has also written for many other journals, including Wprost (Poland), The Davis Enterprise (California), Nowy Dziennik (New York). Her poetry has featured on the radio in the UK (Poets Anonymous), Australia and Poland.

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