ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

Wole Soyinka

The Art of Life

Life is like a drama.

Some people lock their memories

in a one-act play – a few scenes and no narrator.

Others can't fit into a three-act one.

A Nigerian boy wrote his biography

in the style of a swashbuckling hero.

It didn't lack trials and tribulations of a prisoner,

a fierce battle with the regime in words,

and a wild motorcycle escape to freedom.

The play still goes on

the curtain hasn't fallen yet.

The main actor delivers more lines.

Applause thunders, and like dust in the air,

admiration for talent and courage swirls.

The Jar

In a huge jar,

grain fills the space.

It pours.

A mouse climbed to the top of the pyramid.

It is a pharaoh, lord of the world.

It settled in a mice paradise.

The jar assures a carefree life.

In the land of plenty,

there are no dangers,

no hardships, no worries about tomorrow.

The mouse savours the wheat.

It grows sluggish and sinks to the bottom.

It sold its freedom for a comfortable life.

The glass trap closes.

Dusk

Night slowly approaches.

Minutes stretch out and pause,

engrossed in the whispers of the past day.

Rush dies down – no longer needed.

Night has its own rules,

hearts slow their beat.

Dreams are released from minds

desires intertwine with promises,

and oblivion sprinkles dust on memories.

The moon in its next quarter dances

above the rooftops of sleeping homes.

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).