ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA, POLAND

Alicja Maria Kuberska

Ms. Alicja Maria Kuberska, a much-awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor and translator, has edited poetry volumes and anthologies both in Polish and English. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines in Poland and abroad. Alicja Kuberska is a member of the Polish Writers Associations in Warsaw (Poland) and IWA Bogdani, (Albania), a Member of the Directors’ Board of Our Poetry Archive (India) and the Cultural Ambassador of The Inner Child Press (USA).

PORTRAIT

The key has not ground in the door for a long time. 

I cannot hear familiar steps in the corridor. 

Silence invades every space of life. 

It pours out like suffocating sticky humid air. 

Things have retained the memory                                            

of moments shared together. 

In the hall the evenly placed slippers doze. 

A bookmark waits for                                                         

further development of the action.  

The mobile phone retained the tender words.

I stand in the window motionless. 

The frame limits the space of the sky. 

Time paints a portrait on a white cloud. 

It is called – "anticipation".

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Solitude of Soul 2023 :: Setu, March 2023