It can be found here:
https://koshyav.blogspot.com/2019/11/five-poems-by-jagari-mukherjee.html
We include Mallika Bhaumik on Friday and Dr. Koshy AV on Saturday
Today Pushcart Nominee Eliza Sieget, the upcoming Polish writer, who is also famous on Spillwords is our honored guest.
Eliza Segiet is a graduate
of Jagiellonian University. Her poems can be found in numerous anthologies both
in Poland and abroad.
The laureate of The
International Annual Publication of 2017 for the poem Questions, and for the
Sea of Mist in Spillwords Press in 2018. For her volume of Magnetic People, she
won a literary award of a Golden Rose named after Jaroslaw Zielinski (Poland
2019 r.). Her poem The Sea of Mists was chosen as one of the best amidst
the hundred best poems of 2018 by International Poetry Press Publication
Canada. In 2019
Poet's Yearbook, as the author of Sea of Mists, she was awarded the prestigious Elite Writer’s Status
Award as one of the best poets of 2019 (July 2019).
She was awarded World Poetic Star Award by World Nations Writers
Union – the world’s largest Writers Union from Kazakhstan (August 2019).
In September 2019 she was 1st Place Laureate (Foreign Poetry
category) – in Contest Quando È la Vita ad Invitare for poem Be Yourself (Italy).
Her poem Order from volume Unpaired was selected as one of the 100 best poems of 2019 in
International Poetry Press Publications (Canada).
In November
2019 she is a nominee for Pushcart Prize in Pangolin Review's list.
All rights for the following poems belong to her.
Translated by Artur Komoter
New Opening
She stopped
planning,
waiting and
dreaming.
Her
monotonous time
it became
overwhelming.
In the
evenings she whispered:
- No future anymore.
Time to die?
Everything
apart from her?
It is not too
late yet
to do
something,
to get to
know a fraction
of the
world’s secrets.
Every day
is
a new
opening
- not a time to shut the longings
in
unaccomplishment.
In the
beginning she chose Georgia.
Delighted
with the beauty of
Tbilisi,
Batumi, Poti
- she breathed more fully.
She already
knew that
the wind of
her strength
will become
the
previously
unattainable goals.
Adventure
Between the Panamanian
Passage,
the surrounding water,
fragments of ancient civilization,
nature stronger than man.
Waterfalls attract the
curious,
they show
their strength and
powerlessness
of the human
towards them.
Emerging from the mists
variegated rocks,
sometimes in the sun
glisten with not one rainbow.
A surfy water storm
awakens the imagination.
How many people saw it,
How many more will see?
Gardens
floating on the lakes delight.
A lot to write about this part
of the world...
It’s better to experience it.
In the past, El Dorado was
sought for
today
- hello, adventure
on the ledge behind the great water.
Echo
On the rocky walls
suspended coffins.
Long ago mourned
they connect
the past with the present.
Prepared
for the soul to be closer to
heaven?
Awarded for a good life?
Maybe just to
give them silence and peace,
when they themselves are
silent?
In the Echo valley
still are alive
the sounds of history.
Prepared
for remembrance,
they hang
not to delight.
But to amaze!
To Have Less
In the evening
through the alleys
seeps the music,
Cesária Évora’s voice
delights and calms.
Joy is
painted
on the
faces.
Here everything is:
- no problem,
- no stress.
Sunk in
delight,
nowhere do
they see evil,
they do not
share time
- it is
theirs.
Tangled
problems
become
nothing.
Here they
understood
that
to
- have less
means
to be more.
Be Yourself
Between the lands,
life occurs,
under the crystal panel -
another world.
A multi-colored,
delightful agitation
that one can become part of.
For a few moments
breathing differently,
looking closer,
experiencing anew.
In the vastness of the depths
underwater magic takes place.
Even for a moment,
forgetting that our place is above,
where breathing in and out
do not
require thinking.
Where the needs
are getting bigger.
Becoming a fish,
compelling admiration,
not exceeding one’s own abilities.
Just:
Be.
Be - yourself.
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