ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

Departure

 

I helped you

to pack your things into a suitcase,

Stuff scattered carelessly,

Entangled in your arrivals and departures.

Expected days have passed.

The day before yesterday

turned into today,

with the date of the sentence

printed on the ticket.

 

Gradually, the traces of your stay

began to disappear,

The fragrance of your perfume faded.

The last sheet dropped from the calendar.

 

I our minds there is the autumn solstice

and consent to the inevitable parting.

Emptiness as winter haunts the cold.

 

 

The Sadness

 

I don't know,

Where you find the border of sadness.

Maybe it consists of circles

like the Dante's hell.

 

I am pulled in deeper and deeper

By the quicksand of disappointment.

The blue heavens are closing over me.

 

My smile is more perfect than the moon.

It always looks like a half-moon

and leads the crowds of the observers astray.

 

Only the abyss in my eyes

is getting blacker and deeper.

The eyes cannot lie

 

 

The String On The Air

 

I was singing,

Like the string on the air,

The sad song about loneliness,

The bitter disappointments,

The absence of love.

 

I was hanging somewhere,

Far from the reality

And was looking obsessively for

Understanding and tenderness.

 

I do not know why you plucked me.

Look what happened.

You broke the tensed string.

You have the piece of wire

In your hand,

But it is too little, too late

 

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA – awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor. In 2011 she published her first volume of poems entitled: “The Glass Reality”.  Her second volume “Analysis of Feelings”, was published in 2012. The third collection “Moments” was published in English in 2014, both in Poland and in the USA. In 2014, she also published the novel – “Virtual roses” and volume of poems “On the border of dream”. Next year her volume entitled “Girl in the Mirror” was published in the UK and “Love me”, “(Not) my poem” in the USA. In 2015 she also edited anthology entitled “The Other Side of the Screen”. In 2016 she edited two volumes: “ Taste of  Love” (USA), “Thief of Dreams” (Poland) and international anthology entitled “ Love is like Air” (USA).Next year she published volume in Polish entitled “ View From the Window”, collection of love poems in Arabic and English entitled “ Love like arabesque ( together with Egyptian poet Mandour Saleh Hikiel). In 2018 she published international anthology “Love Postcards” and her volume in Russian entitled “Selected poems”. She is a chief editor of series of anthologies entitled “Metaphor of Contemporary” (Poland). Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Spain, Turkey, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Israel, the USA, Canada, India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Uzbekistan,  South Korea, China, Taiwan, South Africa, Zambia, Nigeria and Australia. Her volumes were translated into Albanian language by famous poet and academic Mr Jeton Kelmendi, into Telugu language by famous Hindu poet Mr Lanka Siva Rama Prasad, into Turkish by famous Turkish poet Metin Cengiz, into Italian by famous Italian poetess Maria Miraglia and into Arabic by famous Syrian poetess Shurouk Hammouud. She won: distinction (2014) and medal (2015) on Nosside poetry competition in Italy, statuette in Lithuania (2015), medal of European Academy Science, Arts and Letters in France (2018)), award of Cultural Festival International “Tra le parole e l’ infinito” Italy (2018) 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), E- literaci (Poland)and IWA Bogdani, (Albania). She is also a member of directors’ board of Soflay Literature Foundation (Pakistan), Our Poetry Archive (India). She is Polish Ambassador of Culture of The Inner Child Press (the USA). She belongs to Editorial Advisory Board of Sahitya Anand (India) and IPA Editorial (India).