One life

Eliza Segiet

Eliza Segiet

(Translated Ula de B)

A human is unusual?

The creator of hatred and love,

wars and peace,

acceptance of difference and its intolerance.

Is a skin color, faith

a reason,

for aggression to take away the future,

crash the dreams?

Who forbids to think,

to distinguish good from much worse,

whose name is the evil.

Even if the seeming tradition 

commands something else,

it is worth to open the heart

to love and understanding.

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Bio: Eliza Segiet graduated with a Master's Degree in Philosophy, completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Knowledge, Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Jagiellonian University.

Author’s poems Questions and Sea of Mists won the title of the International Publication of the Year 2017 and 2018 in Spillwords Press. 

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2019 (USA, November 2019, 

Nominated for the iWoman Global Awards 2020 (December 2019).

Laureate Naji Naaman Literary Prize 2020.

Author's works can be found in anthologies and literary magazines worldwide.

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Setu Special 2020 :: Setu, October 2020

Eliza Segiet, POLAND

REALNESS

To be like until now?

For what?

It is worth experiencing life more fully.

Discovery of talent within oneself -

the beginning of creativity.

Not quantity, but quality

guarantee the joy of existence.

Radium and polonium

she discovered -

a wife, mother,

a woman with imagination.

It is not a delusion, but realness.

Not mannequins and robots,

but the mind allows

to build the world.

VOICE

She did not want to be invisible,

considered the weaker one.

She decided to be creative.

She began to fight

for her freedom and independence.

When she came

out of her supposedly safe world,

she saw the wrongs that are happening around.

She could think,

she distinguished good from evil.

Now she is fighting for peace, equality and love.

She ceased to be just a wife and a mother.

She is a woman

who regained her surname

and with it shows to the world

that a wardrobe full of shoes and skirts

is not an obstacle

- to have a voice.

MYTH

There is no longer a myth

that a woman is home, family

and dependence on husband’s power.

There is no longer a myth

that the latter are better,

that they can do more.

The former can also

make dreams come true.

There is no longer a myth

that her place is the underground.

Women and men

are People

with free will,

with the right to decide.

(The above poems originally in the Polish language, have been translated by Artur Komoter)

Eliza Segiet graduated with a Master's Degree in Philosophy and completed her postgraduate studies in Cultural Knowledge, Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Her poem Questions won the title of the International Publication of the Year (2017) in Spillwords Press. Her poem Sea of Mists won the title of the International Publication of the Year (2018) in Spillwords Press. Eliza's works can be found in anthologies and literary magazines worldwide.

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Women, Power & Creativity :: Setu, March 2019

Eliza Segiet (Poland)

Exclusive: Poetry from Europe and other Western locations: Curated by Agron Shele

Eliza Segiet (Poland )

E mail: eliza.anna@op.pl

Eliza Segiet – graduate with a Master's Degree in Philosophy, completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Knowledge, Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Jagiellonian University, as well as Film and Television Production in Lodz.

Torn between poetry and drama. Likes to look into the clouds, but keeps both feet on the ground. Her heart is close to the thought of Schopenhauer: "Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it".

Publications:

Poetry Collections:

"Love Affair with Oneself" [pol. "Romans z sobą"] (2013),

"Mental Mirages" [pol. "Myślne miraże"] (2014 , II Edition:2017),

"Cloudiness" [pol. "Chmurność"] (2016),

including

Monodrama "Clearances" [pol. "Prześwity"] (2015), 

Farce "Tandem" (Signo 2017).  

Author's works can be found in anthologies and literary magazines in Poland and abroad (Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, India, Kosovo,Scotland, Sweden, USA).

Labyrinth

In the vortex of dance,

wandering in the labyrinth of time

she saw

the ephemerality of existence.

Today turns into yesterday

as in the Heraklite river

- fluid, smooth.

Although trees live longer than humans,

slouching between them

one can see the scattered dandelions.

And behind a tall wall of boxwood

there is everything

one cannot go back to.

Every ray of the sun

is a hope for existence,

even though

at some point it will

not allow for a gust of life.

Signs of Time

Embraced by gentleness of words,

aroused by beauty

she sets imagination into motion.

She didn't know

if—as before—

it was just

the waves talking to each other.

Did she really hear them?

I know

that she could live

in a place,

where crystalline sand

covers her wet feet,

where the signs of time are enshrouded by a wave.

The sea

could drown out her memories.

She Was Far Away

Somewhere

in the midst of the theatre of life

she sought shelter

to not return to the past.

She could not.

It followed her.

She could not forget

the pattering of German officers

and fear

is it today?

She hid in her

the past time-

like a stone

holds onto eternity.

Translated by Artur Komoter

Setu, June 2018