IZABELA ZUBKO

IZABELA ZUBKO

I LOVE YOU FOR NOTHING

In the silence of the last breath

I've captured with my eyes

Your coming into existence

Frigid hands stung with cold

more and more strongly

more and more painfully

Quieting voice

which once was leading

suddenly became the universe

I Loved You and love You

for nothing

you just were her

TRANSLATE BY: ANNA MAZUR

Kocham Cię za nic

W ciszy ostatniego oddechu

spojrzeniem zatrzymałam

Twoje zaistnienie

Chłód rąk parzył mnie

coraz mocniej

coraz boleśniej

Milknący głos

który kiedyś prowadził

nagle stał się wszechświatem

Kochałam Cię i kocham

za nic

po prostu byłaś

GROWING UP

With closed eyes

I’m searching my memory for Your features

and the name written with sight

on the vault of life

I meditate as quietly as I can

so I wouldn’t frighten away the prayer

started in the morning

when in the company of the sea

united with the wave roar

we were touching the sense of faith

penetrating its every grain

TRANSLATE BY: ANNA MAZUR

Dorastanie

Z zamkniętymi oczami

szukam w pamięci Twoich rysów

i imienia pisanego wzrokiem

na sklepieniu życia

medytuję najciszej jak umiem

by nie spłoszyć modlitwy

rozpoczętej o poranku

gdy w towarzystwie morza

zjednoczeni szumem fal

dotykaliśmy sensu wiary

wnikając w każde jej ziarenko

 

MEMENTO MORI

We look ahead

unnecessarily

We urge the life

ineffectively

We lose the race

prematurely

The ambassador of time

is ticking winningly

TRANSLATE BY: ANNA MAZUR

Memento mori

Wybiegamy myślami

niepotrzebnie

Ponaglamy życie

bezskutecznie

Przegrywamy wyścig

przedwcześnie

Ambasador czasu

zwycięsko tyka

IZABELA ZUBKO

IZABELA ZUBKO – born in 1974 in Warsaw, Poland - poetess, journalist and translator.  She was graduated in 2008 from the Literary-Artistic Department at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. She  is an author of 10 volumes of poetry. Her poems were published in many newspapers in Poland and abroad. They can be found in  many anthologies, too. For example her works there are  in the collection entitled "The poets of our time" and "Anthology of Slavic Poetry".  Izabela Zubko is a winner of numerous poetry competitions. She is a member of: the Union of Polish Writers (ZLP),  literary-musical group  "Terra Poetica", the Polish Writer’s Association of 2nd Warsaw Branch (SAP) and the Association of Culture Originators (RSTK). She received two awards of RSTK - silver one (2010) and gold one (2015) in appreciation of her  literary achievements. She also received the statuette of Stanislaw Moniuszko (April 2016) awarded  her by the Polish Cultural Centre in Lithuania.