ANNA CZACHOROWSKA

 

While seeking the happiness and the good of 

others, we find them for ourselves.

  Plato

Show me 

Your Mercy

Please

give me

the shortest possible

distance

to the Finish Line

And I

one more time will

sacrifice myself

For the happiness 

of a Woman

I will give my life

* * *

        Pain is bread which God shares with people.

                                                             Georges Bernanos

Set me free

from hatred

It feels so heavy

in this clothing

Like in armor

The wound

which neighbors

inflicted

For a long time

won’t heal over

* * * 

 

                                           And you have nothing left but God.

                                          That is, everything, if you believe.

                                                         Ryszard Kapuściński

You will stand

naked

before the Creator

with a leaf

carelessly 

pinned

you will run out of

courage

To escape

from Nothing

From Everything?

ANNA CZACHOROWSKA

ANNA CZACHOROWSKA: Anna Czachorowska was born in Warsaw. She graduated from the Warsaw University. She is a member of Polish Writers’ Union, a member of the Board of Association for the Promotion of Polish Creative Output, a member of Polish Authors’ Association, a member of Movimiento Poetas del Mundo, and also a member of Slavic Academy of Literature and Arts in Bulgaria. She publisher eight books of poetry: I Was the Rose of Your Winter, Touching Happiness, LoveKnockedat the Door, Before the Sun Descends the Slope,17 Ljóð, In the Anteroom of Dreams, In the Anteroom of Dreams– Polish-English edition, With an Outstretched Wing– Polish-English-Spanish. They were published in numerous Polish poetry anthologies and included in the Anthologies of Polish Authors’ Association. Her poems also appeared in international literary magazines, e.g. in AZAHAR literary magazine in Spain. Her works were translated in to Russian, English, Spanish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Belorussian, Slovak, Serbian, Italian, Greek, Telugu and in to Icelandic (a whole book: 17 Ljóð). In 2016 and 2017, Anna Czachorowska’s poems with Her biographical note were published in the Anthology of World Poets (Una Antologia Anual de Poetas del Mundo). In the years 2018-2021 her poems appeared in Anthologies which were the outcome of Poetry Festivals in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and India. In May 2011, she was awarded the Honorary Decoration for Merit to Polish Culture by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In May 2017, she received Gloria Artis Bronze Medal from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In October 2022, Anna Czachorowska received the Honorary Decoration of PolishWriters’ Union for distinguished service to this organization.