Alicja Maria Kuberska, POLAND

Exclusive: Best of Women Poetry: Edited by Padmaja Iyengar-Paddy

Alicja Maria Kuberska

WOMAN'S BAG

The guardian of female privacy
hides inside few ordinary things
and some magic
One can find in it:

shimmering silver portrait of the holder
and the redness of her lips,
handkerchiefs delicate as fog
soaked with her tears of joy and sadness,
notebook with white sheets
like angel wings
full of life prose and little poetry,
loose cards with culinary recipes
about how to cook dinner out of nothing,
tiny coins buzzing like golden bees
ready to support the smiles of the poor,
keys from the house
and heart of the beloved,
phone in a colorful case.

The woman's handbag contains
a few items
and the whole world of the owner


Alicja Maria Kuberska is a Polish poetess, novelist, journalist and editor. She has received several distinctions and awards notably  distinction (2014) and medal (2015) in the  Nosside Poetry Competition (Italy), Statuette in Lithuania (2015), Medal of European Academy Science, Arts and Letters in France (2018)), and Award of Cultural Festival International “Tra le parole e l’ infinito” Italy (2018). She was also twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize (USA).
Alicja Kuberska is a member of the Polish Writers Associations in Warsaw (Poland) , E- literaci  (Poland) and IWA Bogdani, (Albania). She is a Member of the Board of Directors of Soflay Literature Foundation (Pakistan), Our Poetry Archive (India), Polish Ambassador of Culture of The Inner Child Press (the USA) and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Sahitya Anand (India) and IPA Editorial (India).

---

Best of Women Poetry -2020 :: Setu, March 2020