JOANNA KALINOWSKA

JOANNA KALINOWSKA

Eternity

I would have you beside me

for an instant of eternity

for a breath, a sight

before you dissolve into the air

my tired heart

blooms in this vibrating light of spring

to touch you would mean to cut the edge of mystery

hidden under the seventh veil of truth

and be able to fly away like a bird

even if you are only an illusion

Astral

I know I must leave early

to dance among the clouds

marvellously light and bright

maybe one day the shade of my naked feet

will touch the reflexes of the sun on the wall of your room

and il will be like a greeting behind the cover of time

and you’ll answer with the smile not even knowing why...

Our Home

we look at the stars in deep night

looking for directions of the road

lost in the endless space of the cosmos

admiring the infinity of time and space

we feel small

desperately trying not to get lost in eternity

we created our father who lives in heaven

but trying to understand him

we feel lost and confused

disturbed by their own intellect

we sail on the waves of thoughts

to overcome the limits of reason that still deceives us

the island of consciousness drifts without a route on the sea

and the cloud of ego wanders aimlessly across the sky

as if our life was a ship

we have no idea if it will be enough

courage to get to know yourself

day after day, all our life

experimenting with each step

the risk of giving the best of everything

slowly approaching the limits of endurance

learning each other until full consciousness

because it's us ourselves

we will look through the vastness of infinity

able to exceed in each moment

the threshold of our future

we cannot choose the places we came from

but it is up to us to decide where to go

The Horizon

I cannot just recover

looking at the sea and the sky, that is so blue.

Crystal azure sea,

sky with an intense color like this

that it seems painted.

How many times have I looked at them,

searching for my soul somewhere...

Where the sea covers the sky,

watching each and every change,

sky which is like a huge glass lampshade

it covers the ground, emanating rare light

emerald gold, gray and lilac,

with different shades that connect everywhere

moving various elements

in an uninterrupted exchange,

eternal metamorphosis of matter.

But this shade closes us; the blue is like a dream,

horizon is a line that limits us.

The outside world is only a reflection

inner world,

a delusion of the mind that still deceives us.

We live in the illusion of the mind,

why our brain

can not open to all consciousness?

How to free yourself from the restrictions of entries,

which old culture imposes on us?

How to open our eyes

on the vastness of infinity?

At high altitudes

the blue of the sky becomes more intense and dark

and I cannot reach the height

on which there are higher worlds...

Where we can tear off

a veil from the face of truth

and reach its depth.

Where ubiquitous love will seize us,

leading us to their infinitude.

JOANNA KALINOWSKA

JOANNA KALINOWSKA, says about herself, that she was born under a wandering star. She, as a child (a daughter of an officer), often moved from one place to another. These constant changes taught her the openness and the willingness to meet new people and places. She spent many years in Poland. Fifteen years ago she moved to Italy. She has always been writing but she publishes now. Her book “Ascoltando Azzurro –Wsłuchana w błękit” was written so that people who speak different languages can express the same feelings. Three volumes of her poetry were edited and her poems were printed in various anthologies and magazines. She writes and publishes in two languages, both Polish and Italian. She loves these two countries. They are her homelands. She arranged “The Amici Italia-Polonia Association”. Its headquarters there is in Taranto — the city where she lives and works. She is a teacher, but she actually works as a translator and an activist of the Polish community. She is a member of the Warsaw Association of Literature’s Translators. Joanna works for the Italian literary-cultural group “La Vallisa”, too. She also cooperates with magazine of this group. She is the initiator and organizer of many cultural and social events.