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By
Eliza Segiet
Illusion
I do not take away dreams
they help overcome the evil,
they illuminate the reality,
they obscure the traces of shots.
I do not take away dreams.
I sometimes feel the taste of almonds.
Actually
I only remind myself of it.
And my children?
What will they remind themselves of?
Odor of burning bodies?
Or famine?
Or maybe
of our common wanderings
to places
now unreal.
I do not take away their dreams,
I give an illusion.
For Them
I’m still alive
happy otherwise.
Under the cover of understatements
I pretend it is good.
It is not so!
Hungry children
wander without a father.
They say that…
I don’t know what!
I should be the head for them,
but it looks bad,
on it are traces
of my history.
I’m still alive
happy otherwise
I age faster,
get thinner
and more and more I want to live
for them.
I do not know
how to explain to them
something
that is inexplicable?
Letters
Some think
that he cannot cry,
that he is strong
like no one else.
It’s not true.
When he saw
what he looked like,
written on a piece of cardboard,
his name,
his tears flowed.
Tears of happiness.
And she sang:
dada, do you not like it?
Wrong letters?
Poems translated by Artur Komoter
Eliza Segiet
Eliza Segiet, Master’s Degree graduate in Philosophy, completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Knowledge, Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Jagiellonian University, as well as Film and Television Production in Lodz.
Publications: Poetry Collections:”Romans z soba” (Sowello 2013), Myslne miraze” (Miniatura 2014, II Edition: Sowello 2017),”Chmurnosc” (Signo 2016), Including: Monodrama “Przeswity” (Signo 2015), Farce “Tandem” (Signo 2017).
Author of the Month (June 2017) in The Year of the Poet 14 in the USA, Author’s poem “Questions” was the Publication of the Month (August 2017) in Spillwords Press, International Publication of the Year (2017) in Spillwords Press, Laureate of the International Special Prize Frang Bardhi – 2017, Author of The Month of January/February (2018) in Spilword Press. Author of The Month of January/February (2018) in Spilword Press. Author of the Month (May 2018) in the Indian Our Poetry Archive. Nominated for the Publication of the Month (May 2018) for the poem “My World” in Spillwords Press. Nomination for the Author of the Month (May 2018) in Spillwords Press. Nominated for the Publication of the Month (June 2018) for the poem “Evil Ones” in Spillwords Press. Author of the Month (July 2018) in The Year of the Poet in the USA.
Author’s works can be found in anthologies and literary magazines in Poland and abroad (Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Philippines, India, Israel, Canada, Kosovo, Singapore, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, USA, United Kingdom, Zambia).
Such intensity. I look forward to reading your work.