MAŁGORZATA MARIA ŻURECKA

MAŁGORZATA MARIA ŻURECKA

To Catch Up With The Time

I am a digital immigrant

my birthdate:  from before

the Digital Revolution

I learn a new language

a rite and a protocol

half a way

to the Thumb Generation

to the digital natives

who instinctively express

their emotions

by clicking a key

who record the love

in the SMS format

Butterfly Wings

torn and wet:

a reflex in the glass

of mine

in a green dress

An Autumn Water-Colours

trees  are engraved by the murk

a handful of birds thrown

along with the wind

in the ash-grey field

the pallid  moon

lures the cold autumn

I Am Longing

I do not know

whether it is my heart

that is throbbing so loudly

or it is the rain

that is striking on

a window panel

so strongly.

An autumn night,

cool and wet,

a November night

is bulging behind the door.

I am longing

in my woolen sweater

under a  starched lining

and I cannot tell apart

whether it is my heart

that is throbbing so loudly

or it is the rain

that is striking on

a window panel

so strongly.

Everyday

it is my nakedness

that  I usually leave

on my warm pillow

now  I am arming  myself

with a watch

spectacles

a mantle and a pair of shoes

I will have waged

my everyday fight

and then disarmament

will follow again

I will return to my

nakedness

Recorded

in the scattered matzevos

is the fate  of a nation

which had been

thrown off

from the  pedestal

of life.

A blade of  the  poor grass

reborn out of  the darkness

is singing the Lord

a thanksgiving psalm

and  growing into vigour

into  green meadows of rising

from  the dead

Two Swallows

I am parting

the alabastrine water-lilies

of Luisa Famos,

a Romansh woman.

I touch her fingers

through words of poems.

I am her  sister-swallow

though my nest

is under another roof.

when in spring,

I am flying to

with a word,

in order to fly away

in winter,

with no dreams.

It Is For The First Time

that the spring  makes me abashed

I am not in a position

to look squarely in its eyes

I enjoy it

and I do not want it

at  the same time

the winter has sealed me up

in the dim nooks of

my soul

I feel as if I were a worm

brought out from its shelter

by a kid

with a stick

A Blackbird’s Been Singing  The Summer

I don’t like you saying

see you tomorrow

see you on Monday

the time like that

makes me doomed

to friable density

a blackbird’s been singing the summer

a cat’s asleep in wild thymes

a fence’s ivy-entwined

a poppy’s grown red up and wide

a pool’s all in nuphars

the highway’s grown treed

and  green along

tell me

see you then

see you later

but don’t  say

good-bye

A Toy Smuggler

here is a report from Aleppo

a besieged city:

Rami Adham

risks his life

for children’s smiles

four of the Syrian borderlines

are closed

he nevertheless gets across

he smuggles children’s toys

in his HGV

kids desire them more

than any food

they quietly queue

to get a teddy bear

or a doll

they will brush their tears

away

more effectively

the smuggle has been invented

by a volunteer girl

age of three years

his own little daughter

TRANSLATED BY MIROSŁAW GRUDZIEŃ.

MAŁGORZATA MARIA ŻURECKA

MAŁGORZATA MARIA ŻURECKA:  [pronunciation: Mal-goh-zhah-tah  Mah-ri-ah ZHOO-RETS-KAH], née:  ZYGMUNT, born on April 15, 1956 at Stalowa Wola, is a Polish poet and short story writer. During her childhood and school years,  she lived at Tarnobrzeg (the Vistula riverside, SE Poland). Graduated from the  University of Technology at Rzeszów as M.Sc.Eng. (Environmental Engineering). Her literary press début was a poem published in 1990 in The SZTAFETA regional weekly in 1990. Membership of the regional WITRYNA Literary Association at Stalowa Wola. Since 2006:  membership of the Union of Polish Littérateurs (U.P.L.). She was on very friendly terms with late Wojciech Siemion (a famous Polish actor) and his family; since 2012, membership of the Wojciech Siemion Memorial Poetry Union. She has published 7 collections (books) of poetry. Her works: 1.PIĄTA PORA KONIECZNOŚCI [The Fifth Season Of Necessity]. Stalowa Wola: SZTAFETA, 2001. ISBN: 83-87840-52-1. 2.OSTATNI ANIOŁ GORYCZY [The Last Angel Of Bitterness]. Stalowa Wola: SZTAFETA, 2005. ISBN: 83-89930-07-2 . (awarded with  the  GAŁĄZKA SOSNY [Pine Twig] Stalowa Wola Literary Award). 3.W KAPSULE CODZIENNOŚCI [In The Capsule Of Commonplaceness]. Rzeszów: U.P.L. Rzeszów Branch, 2007. ISBN: 978-83-925021-3-5 . An audio-book of the same. Rzeszów: Wojewódzka I Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna, 2014. (Awarded with  the  ZŁOTE PIÓRO [Golden Pen] distinction by the U.P.L. Rzeszów Branch). 4.IN & OUT. DWUGŁOS LIRYCZNY [A Lyrical Duet]. Małgorzata Żurecka & Dorota Jaworska  [joint collection]. Petrykozy: Muzeum Jadwigi i Wojciecha Siemionów, 2010. ISBN:  978-83-61441-37-3 5.UCIECZKA Z KRAINY POZORU  [Escape From The Land Of Appearances]. Rzeszów: U.P.L. Rzeszów Branch, 2011. ISBN:978-83-927213-0-7. 6.NAGA MALWA [A Naked Mallow]. Stalowa Wola: KAVA design-Jacek Kawa,  2013. ISBN: 978-83-934804-3-2. 7.KOS ŚPIEWA LATO [A Blackbird’s Been Singing The Summer]. Rzeszów:  Podkarpacki Instytut Książki i Marketingu, 2016. ISBN: 978-83-63706-61-6. In preparation: a bilingual Polish-and-English collection of her selected poems. Her poems  have been translated into Serbian and  English.