ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

 

 

Blue Planet

 

I have this image of our beautiful planet in my mind.

This blue gem shines in the darkness of the universe.

It is a wonderful cradle of plants, animals, people

and was described as a paradise in the ancient stories.

 

I woke up terrified when this happy dream ended.

The green lungs of the Amazon have shrunk

and the world suffers from shortness of breath.

The vast ocean waters

 are covered with a thick layer of plastic

and the genetically modified plants

do not pour seeds onto the soil.

 

I ask a man:

“Do you know what it will be tomorrow?

 Did you forget who you are and where you come from?

Why did you recant your mother-Earth?”

 

You keep talking about money, profits, prosperity.

You draw the bars and worry about future incomes.

Instead of a dot at the end of your long lecture,

I saw one horrible word - death.

 

Contemporary Man

 

He stands on top of a heap of plastic garbage

and he gasps every sip of air with difficulty.

He puts  a mask on his face and he is afraid to breathe.

The Earth's green lungs stop producing the oxygen.

 

He looks with hope into the endless black of the cosmos

in the search of a planet beautiful like a blue gem.

In vain he wants to escape from his family home

 to abandon old problems and his own mistakes.

 

He still believes in the power of money,

So he was caught in a trap made of delusions.

He forgot that not everything can be bought.

A drop of clean water and fresh air are priceless.

 

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).