Poems by Anna Czachorowska, Poland

Like a Crystal

 

I confess

the state of my feelings

very quietly

so that no one

can hear

Before the heart

with repentance

has time to sting

I will be pure

like a crystal

 

***

Stumbling, you can get far;

Only by falling and not rising, you can’t.

 

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Flogged by the whips of the wind

for the rain and foul weather

crushed to dust

by the ravages of time

Stripped from the chance

of survival

again I resurrect

to fall

A tear is the most expensive pearl.

 

Søren Kierkegaard

 

Morning again

I wake up lethargic

with the word:

“I wish, I desire…”

And a chain of pearls

I put around the neck

Like a heavy tear

but one

I would take off

 

***

One moment

one breath

The last

issued with no echo

One is already everything

and nothing

Everywhere

and nowhere

A minuscule particle

of the Universe

 

Without suffering,one does not understand happiness.

Fiodor Dostojewski

 

I bow

to you

your Pine highness

and to you

my slender Birch

when animals and people

fail me,

through the bark

to the heart of the trees I knock

I give my hand

to the rustling branches

and the trunk I embrace

fondly

In the cloudy Morcing

and rainy evening

with you

I cuddle

Painfully

 

To Friends

 

Friends are like silent angels who lift us when our wings forget how to fly.

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

Impossible

will become possibile

and a dream

may come to life

when these banes

malicious creations

will not crawl out

like a snake from under the leaves

Everything

will become simple

and easy

when a single link

will not break up

A chain of hearts

those kind

those tender

will fulfil the dream

and the day will come

again

 

Translated from polish by:

Artur Komoter

Biography of Anna Czachorowska

Anna Czachorowska was born in Warsaw. She graduated from the Warsaw University.

She is a member of PolishWriters’ Union, a member of the Board of Association for the Promotion of Polish Creative Output, a member of PolishAuthors’ Association, a member of Movimiento Poetas del Mundo, and also a member of Slavic Academy of Literature and Arts in Bulgaria.

She publisher eightbooks of poetry:

I Was the Rose of Your Winter, TouchingHappiness, 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, I drömmarnas Väntrum – Polish-English- Swedish.

They were published in numerous Polish poety 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.