The Cottage and old tree
shiny ivy leaves are flashing
overgrown with a green heart
green-greyish branches
further!
they bash proudly with bark
they jump invisibly over the tree trunk
from slivers of chestnuts lavenders of old nests of dry grass
wetlands
red clay
houses are twisted with age
the windows are silent
Regent’s Park
he proposed to
invisible clouds
in Regent’s Park.
and she
tangled by a rose muslin
circled by the sun
her golden feet
walked through the glass door
under the sky suspended
on a steel clock
at the top of Victorian towers
on a misty evening
The Ballad of Penzance
slapstick
fringed
trumpeting
the ocean with a bang is reminding
with its glare seeks the castaways
Tristan and Isolde
with shanties of turquoise waves
threatens...
to repentant boulders
to stone towers
conquered fortresses
portuguese galleons
and they are astonished
shrouded in ballads
with an age of brass
with
song
they
slumber
Canvas in Cornwall
heathering
city
the evening rotten
and yellowish
sloping
a pear
falling to
the ground
looking into
the depth
the line in
the horizon is blurred
in a moment,
the red of the west
will shout
greyness...
the canvas
tired with colour unveils its nakedness
Miracles of Socrates
miracles!
you say Socrates...
it was because of you that
Jaspers shouted
Self...!
Self is self in English
and from under the pen
sparkles
a sugar crystal
a heavenly wind carries away
your frail hand
my friend...
Anna Maria Mickiewicz (UK) poet, writer, editor, translator, and publisher (Anna Maria Mickiewicz Literary Waves Publishing, London). Her poetic works have appeared in the following journals in the United States, UK, Australia, Canada, Poland, Mexico, Italy, India. Her first collection of verse was published in 1985. Since then, publications include short stories and essays: Okruchy z Okrągłego Stołu (Breadcrumbs from the Round Table) in 2000, Londyńskie bagaże literackie in 2019, and verse collections Proscenium in 2010, London Manuscript, published by Poetry Space, Bristol, in 2014 and The Mystery of Time, published by Flutter Press, USA 2019. She belongs to poetry groups in London: Enfield Poets, The Highgate Society's Poetry Group, Exiled Writers Ink. As part of this activity, she often presents her works at poetry events. Honored with the Gloria Artis medal for Merit to Culture by the Polish Ministry of Culture, the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity and The Joseph Conrad Literary Prize (USA).
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