Thursday, February 1, 2024

IZABELA ZUBKO

 



The Traces Of Feet

 

I can still hear

you leaving them

going out without me

into the world

 

They aren’t falling silent

although frost

rimed hairtra

cooling the face

 

Translated By: Anna Maria Mazur

 

Ślady stóp

 

Wciąż słyszę

jak zostawiasz je

idąc beze mnie

w świat

 

Nie milkną

choć mróz

oszronił włosy

chłodząc twarz

 

The Silence In The Garden

 

It covers my feet

submerged in the grass

of the autumn morning

 

It has hidden its look

that was waiting too long

for an answer

 

Translated By: Anna Maria Mazur

 

 

Cisza w ogrodzie

 

Okrywa moje stopy

zanurzone w trawie

jesiennego poranka

 

Ukryła w nim spojrzenie

które zbyt długo czekało

na odpowiedź

 

New Year

 

It speaks the words

I am still to learn

 

It calls the future

by its name

 

It beguiles with a promise

of different fate

 

Although we sometimes dream

about life for an encore

 

Translated By: Anna Maria Mazur

 

Nowy Rok

 

Przemawia słowami

które dopiero zrozumiem

 

Nazywa po imieniu

przyszłość

 

Mami obietnicą

innego losu

 

Choć czasem marzymy

o życiu na bis

IZABELA ZUBKO

 

IZABELA ZUBKO – born in 1974 in Warsaw, Poland – is a Polish poetess, journalist and translator; an author of 15 volumes of poetry. Her poems were published in many newspapers in Poland and abroad. They can also be found in various anthologies, like in the collection entitled 'The Poets of Our Times', 'Anthology of Slavic Poetry' and 'Poets of the Turn of the Centuries and Millennia'. Izabela Zubko is a winner of numerous poetry competitions. She received two awards of Association of Culture Originators (RSTK) – silver (2010) and gold one (2015) in appreciation of her literary achievements. She also received the statuette of Stanislaw Moniuszko (2016) awarded her by the Polish Cultural Centre in Lithuania, Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture (2017), Bronze Cross of Merit (2018), Commemorative Medal Pro Masovia (2020), International Literary Award 'Golden Pen of Rus' (2021) and Bronze 'Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis' (2022).

 


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