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Wednesday, December 04, 2019

PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEE SERIES - 2. ELIZA SIEGET'S FIVE POEMS

We have already featured Jagari Mukherjee who is a Pushcart nominee in a previous post.

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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