Friday 16 September 2022

Five Poems by Anna Maria Mickiewicz

 


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).

anna_mickiewicz@yahoo.co.uk


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