ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

THE RAINBOW

I look for the rainbow every day.

It does not matter that the day is

Gloomy, foggy, cheerless

And the sky is covered by

Heavy, stormy clouds.

The rainbow sleeps

In the drops of rain.

Warmed with sunshine,

It stretches on the sky like a bow

And blooms with six colors.

I blow away the worries

Together with grey fog

LITTLE TOWN

I walk along the streets of the town,

Which I once loved.

Today, I am an indifferent stranger.

I barely recognize it.

There are no more old, hospitable aunts.

No more nosy neighbors hidden behind curtains,

Or brave men with war stories.

They are gone.

Time changed everything,

Not only the people, houses, streets and trees.

It seems to me that it even

Repainted the shade of the sky

DRAWERS

Large drawers,

Fat dragons with big bellies,

Swallow the pages of my poems.

Saved careless letters,

Scraps, bits of thoughts, dreams, feelings

About which I have been musing.

Scrambled words

On what you need and do not need -

Napkins from the bar,

Small pieces of paper,

Lie dormant.

Maybe someday

I will open the drawer.

From the cocoon of pages

Will hatch poems, as colorful as dragonflies,

Or  like crickets chirping,

And they will fly, who knows where,

And to whom

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA – awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor. She writes both Polish and English. She is an author of many volumes. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines in Poland, Czech Republic, the USA, the UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Israel, Canada, India, Italy, Uzbekistan,  South Korea, Taiwan and Australia. She won : medal on Nosside poetry competition in Italy, medal of European Academy Science, Arts and Letters in France, statuette in Lithuania. She was also twice nominated to the Pushcart Prize in the USA. Alicja Kuberska is a member of the Polish Writers Associations in Warsaw, Poland and IWA Bogdani, Albania. She is also a member of directors’ board of Soflay Literature Foundation.