Sunday, October 1, 2023

ANNA PACIOREK

 


Inner Prisoner

 

bound by the fate of existence

pinned to the ground

you go through life unprotected

like a tightrope walker above the waters of the ocean 

 

you're still looking

for free space to get it

and wings of freedom

to fly freely to heaven

 

hungry for crumbs of freedom

with feet rooted in the hard

plateau of earth

you won't fly away being a prisoner

of your own mind

 

when you see inside him

a prison with himself as a prisoner

and guard at the same time

open the rusted cell

let go of the guard and free the ego

and you will emerge from the cocoon "I"

- like a spring butterfly

The wide lava of existence outside and inside

and you will grow wings

 

you will stand as a completely free man

and you will start learning to fly

a man cannot accomplish this

while being an inner prisoner

 

Hoarfrost

.

without a declaration of war

without a single shot

without warning

the clatter of arms

I was killed inside(within) me

.

in a word

.

today a word has satanic power

it is a fratricidal weapon

and at the beginning the word

was truth and life

.

And it became flesh

that now kills hate

.

The apparatus of oppression multiplies everywhere

It grows and peers inside the person

and the weapon becomes more perfidious

the murderer accuses the victim

and walks in honor and glory

.

They receive orders

.

the sewage of words swims in a swift stream

hardly anyone pays it attention anymore

the teeth of empathy were knocked out

we have been conquered by fear

they mislead with false information

.

It’s easier to rule with fear

 

we have lost the azimuth of faith

we turned white

not because of purity

and innocence

but from cold indifference

.

hoarfrost covered consciences

 

Once

 

in a forgotten house

windows without eyelids

an empty cupboard

portraits

with lost smiles

and fading colors

 

only the shadows cuddle

running along the walls

revive(resurrect) memories

 

that once

someone loved

someone here

 

ANNA PACIOREK

 

ANNA PACIOREK, born in Wrocław, Mazovia, professionally: until 2022, she was a freelance auditor and still serves as a court expert at the District Court in Wrocław. Privately: wife, mother, grandmother. Hobbies: she is a poet and cultural animator. She has been writing poetry since 2001. In 2012, she started working as a cultural animator. She organized over 70 collective poetry and music meetings, mainly "Herbertiady" (An evening in memory of Herbert), "Poetyckie spotkania z Anną" (Poetic Meetings with Anna), and recently, in cooperation with Barbara Rejek, "Stachuriady" (An evening in memory of Stachura). She also takes an active part in Charity Concerts. She published eight volumes: in 2002, a poetic sheet (No. 1, II of the bibliophile series "ARS POETICA") entitled " Życie jest chwilą" (Life is a Moment), in 2006, "Kino Powidok" (The kino with the view), in 2008, "Zaczęło się w raju" (It began in paradise), in 2013, "Zamknięte otwarte" (Closed open), in 2016 "Cieniem wiatru zapisane" (Written in the shadow of the wind), in 2017 r. "Tam, gdzie cisza śpiewa" (Where silence sings), in 2018 "Na imię mam Dafne" (My name is Daphne), in 2022 "W drodze przez manowce" (On the way through astray), in 2022, a book dedicated to Edward Stachura on his 85th birthday. In addition, her works are included in 36 anthologies, including two edited by the author. She is a member of: Association of Artists and Animators of Culture in Wrocław (2003, in which she is the Chairperson of the Audit Committee), JP II Polish American Poets Academy in Wallington (NJ 2004), Polish Poets Association in the name of Zbigniew Herbert in Lublin (2005), where until recently she was the Vice-President, the Association of Polish Authors (Wrocław) and several online Literary Clubs, including: RUBIKON, Poetów Niepokorne (Defiant Poets), and Kształty Słów (Shapes of Words), with which she collaborated from 2003 to 2022 as one of the Administrators. In 1998, she was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit. In 2013, she was entered into the Polish version of the Who is Who lexicon. She also has professional awards.

 

 


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