ANNA CZACHOROWSKA

 

ANNA CZACHOROWSKA

 

Stumbling, you can get far;

Only by falling and not rising, you can’t.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

 

 

Flogged by the whips of the wind

for the rain and foul weather

crushed to dust

by the ravages of time

 

Stripped from the chance

of survival

again I resurrect

to fall

 

 

 

* * *

Seek the truth of the bright flame,

look for new, undiscovered roads!

Adam Asnyk

 

 

I took off my hat

and

said goodbye

to my Fatherland

 

I pushed the door handle

and

went away

to another plane

 

Of time and space

 

I touched the truth

 

Of existence

 

 

* * *

A tear is the most expensive pearl.

Søren Kierkegaard

 

Morning again

I wake up lethargic

with the word:

“I wish, I desire...”

And a chain of pearls

I put around the neck

Like a heavy tear

but one

I would take off

 

* * *

 

One moment

one breath

The last

issued with no echo

One is already everything

and nothing

Everywhere

and nowhere

A minuscule particle

of the Universe

 

Artur Komoter - Translation

 

ANNA CZACHOROWSKA

ANNA CZACHOROWSKA was born in Warsaw. She graduated from Warsaw University ( History Department), she completed postgraduate studies at UKSW (Culture Management) She lives in Legionowo and works as a manager  in Public Library in Jabłonna. She is a member of Men of letters Association, she is also a member of The Board of Polish Output Assosciation. She has published: I Was the Rose of Your Winter (Anagram, Warsaw 1993 – book debut); Touching Happiness (City Culture Center in Legionowo 1995); Love Knocked at My Door (Art. For Intergration Fundation, Warsaw 2001); Before the Sun Goes Down the Hill (Anagram 2004) In the Dream Waitingroom , with CD ( performer by Anna Dymna), (Anagram 2011) In  2002 there appeared  a selecion of priest Jan Twardowski’s poems – The Faith, Hope and Love Poet (Anagram, Warsaw) in 2005 there was published a book of Twardowski’s poems with her introduction  - 33 Poems (Publish house SPPT and Public Library in Jabłonna) Her poems and songs were presented in the press and on Polish television. They were published in poetry antologies e.g. Generation Discourse, Antology of XX Century Poets, Chosen by Andrej Bazylewski, Anthology of 41 st Warsaw Poetry Autumn, several pieces of Poetry Today, Anthology of World Poets (Agenda 2016 and Agenda 2017 published by Poets del Mundo in Chile. With an outstretched wing ( NIGHTinGALE 2019). Her works were translated into Russian, English,Spanish,Bulgarian, Romanian, Belorussian, Slovak, Serbian, Italian Greek and Islandic (17 Ljóð). In 2009 at Humanistics and Polish Language Department im. Geysztora there was defended M.A. thesis written by Magdalena Suwińska: Life, Work and Cultural Activity  of Anna Czachorowska. In May 2011 she got a badge „Honoured for Polish Culture” from Culture and National Legacy Ministry. In May 2017 she received the „ Bronze Medal Gloria Artis”