ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

Kelvin Doe

 

Kevin Home Alone

 

What should be done to protect a house?

Poverty lurks on the doorstep

It wants to break in and steal

dignity, dreams, hope.

 

"A weapon can be made from a couple

 of rusty cups and bars"

The Knowledge - the eternal enemy of Poverty

whispers how to win this battle.

 

"One needs to light the house,

banish the darkness from the corners,

hang like lanterns

 sparks of faith in a better tomorrow.

 

Kevin listens carefully

and builds many small power plants

 

The Sahara

 

The earth swollen

with rain will bear crop.

Life sleeps in the little seeds

and it waits for the time to wake up.

In the rhythm of falling raindrops,

mighty trees, tiny flowers sprout.

It's a riot of colors and scents.

 

In the desert,

the cracked soil begs for water.

Rain clouds grudge rainfalls

and they wander

different paths in the sky

 

Once the Sahara had the emerald dress.

Now it wears coarse rags.

It dreams of returning

to the green of the trees.

 

Web

 

Stories woven from words

drift like gossamer

- they are so light,

transparent.

They change shapes,

tear threads,

fade and disappear into oblivion.

 

Holes in memories

are mended by colorful tales

about what might have happened.

 

Recorded stories are like fabric.

They are trapped in knots

on the basis of the past time.

 

 

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).