Aleksandra Szymanska Poems

This plane had Icarus's wings, but nobody ever knew...
Thick fog surrounded its engine, absorbed brains of the crew.
This plane carried flowers for those who didn't have to die.
It changed into a candle; nobody heard its cry...
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Is my phone ringing or is it my brain,
and what is the clicking around my ears?
Bolt's on the sky but there's no rain,
a madman's calling is all I can hear...
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Fortepian Szopena (fragment) …

VII
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The Moon's made of diamonds, the Sun's made of gold;
their light passes through the ancient prism of God...
The colours' array swirls, magic unfolds;
butterflies great days with a peaceful nod...
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I'm a holy, noble man from Syracuse!
I'm the only one without a single sin!
So, I pick up stones and throw them in excuse
of defending God's commandments - I must win...
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Stars are like flowers overgrowing eternal expanses,
sleeping calmly in the Universe’s buds.
They wait patiently for God’s creative will
that awakes splendor in their stony hearts…
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There's only one place you can really hide
and feel free, feel the air of life on your skin.
It's a different dimension, so colourful and wide;
in the middle there grows a gigantic tree...
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Oh, where are you heading creature divine, as you run through the unknown expanses?
What song do you hum galloping alone when your mane so carelessly dances?
If only I could follow your path and gently touch what your eyes can see
to live and breathe the way you do, to be free... to be free... to be free...
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Cranes, cranes what do you hide between the feather of your broad wings?
We hide a story, what we saw; we carry the truth, many things...
Cranes, cranes what is your scream above the empty, lonely field?
That is a secret as dark as the soil under the dirty nails of the guilt...
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I've seen clouds of butterflies and my heart fluttered like their wavering wings.
When they danced above me I admired colourful shapes: waves and rings…
It looked as if a child took a pen and left its doodles all over the sky -
the waves were the sea full of life, the rings were the sun, moon and stars…
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