MIECZYSŁAW ARKADIUSZ ŁYP

MIECZYSŁA ARKADIUSZ LYP

IN THE LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY

In a landscape

snowed in by silence

letters cards photographs

circle like autumn

On a steep green meadow

hung between heaven and earth

under a singing sycamore

under a silver willow

blue Pegai

listen to poems of Podkarpacie poets

about Przyboś

The wind blows away

Poet’s favourite words

his letters and notes

names of towns and states

A wild little apple tree

flourishes with shouts

and violin music

from Niebylec to Tyczyn

Uta paints the rye heritage

of this land

Father

bright as June dawn on Patra

Grandfathers

hide fate’s secret

in dark pupils

Father’s Brothers

trusty and smiling

open book pages

and windows full of light of wisdom

Further relatives are in distant fogs

We all enter

into a landscape full of blue ink

We all know what is difference

doubt denial heresy

because of this reason

we try not to forget important laws

commandments names lighted paths

valley colours Uta’s remembrances

and the green of the trees

from Zabłyszcz paintings

SANOK AFTER THE YEARS HAVE PASSED

Blue dome of the sky

Fires up July afternoon

San river on fire

unwraps its bends and burning horizons

River silence

lifts

like fog of limitless dawn

rises

emerald river hum

onto the sun hills

and all the space blooms

with golden apple tree

This river

framed with its own unrest

with your voice and mine

keeps rolling landscapes

like wheels

into green into sapphire

into crimson into white gold

Hung

on a steep cliff

town lights

like far star

lanterns

shine

church towers

and gates iconostases

from old Othodox churches

written

like Russian echo

into sung prayer

of the castle hill

a train in motion

passes dusk afterglow

TRIPTYCH WITH KINGCUPS

to Józef Chełmoński

I

I never forget those paintings

those speeding shouting

crossing the steppe

threes fours

ravaging wolves

voracity

excess of life

when the sleigh

rushes towards winter abyss of the evening

and the drive means drunkenness

and the drive means life

II

Winged peewits majestic cranes

skittish moorhens white swans

roll the sky through another century

ever

and now

welcome sun and dawn

and spread the coming brightness

into pink haze

III

Neighbouring marshes

host a kingcups meadow

and spring spreads

in cloud deltas

Sun gold multiplicity

and fiery meadows of flowers flow

all the way to the horizon

Bursting

untamed

they mirror their image of their frail repetitiveness

like goddesses

in marsh water mirrors

And we want to pick them

like Monet’s

and Barbara’s water lilies

from distant days and nights

Up

above waters sunk in silence

two birds circling

charm the beauty

of that spring day

and of the world that is passing by right now

MIECZYSŁAW ARKADIUSZ ŁYP

MIECZYSŁAW ARKADIUSZ 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.