Przemyslaw Musialowski Poems

Poetry is not about intelligence,
it is not about racking your brain,
not about solving the most difficult riddles,
but to be able to close your eyes
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Eastern Europe
pierced with
American pop culture
that is pouring out
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When your time is complete,
the only thing you can take
from this illusory earth
is your deep self,
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From all the horrors
that can happen to a man,
with life being a constant lottery of death
from life's beginning to life's end,
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No palaces or treasures
will ever compensate us the loss of loved ones,
the cheerful barking of our beloved dog,
that happy morning time when mothers were sending us to school.
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Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 10/1/2019

The most beautiful is the one who at the candle top
lives alone and this poem is about him -
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Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 10/1/2019

In a spacious room drawn with a circle -
a table, which with a round inscribes into this circle.
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Although it may sound senseless
when you are young and in your prime

when every day you drink sweet nectar
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Life's journey is hard for everyone
but always try, as best as you can,
that it'd be a white-sailed ship
that will be awaiting you when
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With mighty arm I string the bow
to pierce and bind the hearts of lovers
with poisoned arrows of infatuation,
so that the fiery flame of passion may burn,
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