AGNIESZKA JARZĘBOWSKA

AGNIESZKA JARZĘBOWSKA

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I long for the time

when I leave

for the land

where nobody will be AGAINST

***

the place after the comma

everything

depends on the place of the comma

I thought

maths

no

it’s philosophy

he said

take a sentence

write it twice

putting a comma

in two different places

„to love no,

killing is allowed”

„to love,

no killing is allowed”

history

has moved the place of the coma

many Times

***

I will wait a thousand years

and I will live

in a different world

without unnecessary cults

and I will love

against cold walls

against cold people

I’ll derive the warmth

from flowers

I will wait through a thousand years

of human hate

***

He’s walking

so self-confident

and sure of his view

what is the most just

impresses

the great politician

who knows

which person deserves to be

slagged off

I’m listening

uncertain

not knowing

with a naïve question

who the great politician is

***

there are three crows standing

ruffling feathers

they haven’t even opened their beaks yet

but one already knows

that they will squawk

like people

AGNIESZKA JARZĘBOWSKA

AGNIESZKA JARZĘBOWSKA is the author of epigrams and lyric poems. She graduated from the University of Lodz. Whilst still a student, her first works were published in 1981 in the pages of “Dziennik Akademicki”.  Her works were also presented on the TV and on the radio stations. They were also published in the pages and the cultural magazine. In 2010 she published her debut book “Uśmiechy i uśmieszki”. In 2012 she published the continuation of  “Uśmiechy i uśmieszki” -  “Fraszkomat”. In the same year she also published a Polish-German book of poems “Miejsce po przecinku/Die Stelle nach dem Komma” and Polish-Serbian “Układam siebie/Slažem sebe”, in 2014 epigrams Polish - English “Nic/Nothing” and Polish – Lithuanian  “Przekładaniec/Slouksnio”, in 2017 epigrams “Nie ma żartów” and “Piąta pora roku - the fifth season”. Her poems have been translated into many languages - English, German, Serbian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Slovakian, Italian, Bulgarian, Russian, Nederland.