ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

Epidemic

The virus stopped the world

Time passed forward

It looped reality

All the doors slammed shut

The gates of hell opened

Death painted

Horror in the human’s eyes

It covered all faces with masks

A new era has begun

Nothing will be as it used to be

Will man to man be

enemy or brother?

Virus

The virus in the crown began to rule the world.

Within a few days it changed reality.

It locked people in the cages

and gave the planet to nature.

Paris lost its charm.

The lovers disappeared from the tiny cafes.

The boulevards on the Seine are deserted

and the last love confessions passed.

Water in the Roman di Trev Fountain

rustles monotonously and quietly

The splash of coins is no longer heard

- the time of dreams of a quick return is over.

Tired New York

dimmed advertising glows on skyscrapers.

The heart of city beats slower

and silence spread like fog along the streets.

On the Australian coast

ocean waves caress sandy beaches.

They blurred the last traces of human feet

but left birds’ tracks and a few feathers.

There is no crowd at Mumbai markets.

The wind blew the smells from street kitchens.

There were not enough sellers and customers

- fear told them to hide in homes.

Mother Earth is resting.

She mended the ozone hole.

She repairs the losses made by humanity

and leaves a message for man.

"You are not my ruler, but a guest.

You can live in peace with me or leave.

The world will continue without you

- perfect in its beauty and harmony. "

2020

The sky cracked.

The rider of  Apocalypse

set out to the  Earth.

Horse hooves crumbled

human pride and insolence.

Terrified people

locked themselves in their homes.

There are no fingerprints

on shopping carts

Smiles on their faces

are hidden under the masks.

Old values are gone.

For power, beauty and money

one can't get oxygen.

The idea of humanitarianism

broke down,

when lacked the respirators.

Invisible enemy

is lurking in the breath,

in the touch of hand.

It hides in tears.

Kisses and touches

are deadly weapons.

During the epidemic

act of supreme love

is not visiting

old parents.

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA

ALICJA MARIA KUBERSKA – awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor. In 2011 she published her first volume of poems entitled: “The Glass Reality”.  Her second volume “Analysis of Feelings”, was published in 2012. The third collection “Moments” was published in English in 2014, both in Poland and in the USA. In 2014, she also published the novel – “Virtual roses” and volume of poems “On the border of dream”. Next year her volume entitled “Girl in the Mirror” was published in the UK and “Love me”, “(Not) my poem” in the USA. In 2015 she also edited anthology entitled “The Other Side of the Screen”. In 2016 she edited two volumes: “ Taste of  Love” (USA), “Thief of Dreams” (Poland) and international anthology entitled “ Love is like Air” (USA).Next year she published volume in Polish entitled “ View From the Window”, collection of love poems in Arabic and English entitled “ Love like arabesque ( together with Egyptian poet Mandour Saleh Hikiel). In 2018 she published international anthology “Love Postcards” and her volume in Russian entitled “Selected poems”. She is a chief editor of series of anthologies entitled “Metaphor of Contemporary” (Poland). Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Spain, Turkey, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Israel, the USA, Canada, India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Uzbekistan,  South Korea, China, Taiwan, South Africa, Zambia, Nigeria and Australia. Her volumes were translated into Albanian language by famous poet and academic Mr Jeton Kelmendi, into Telugu language by famous Hindu poet Mr Lanka Siva Rama Prasad, into Turkish by famous Turkish poet Metin Cengiz, into Italian by famous Italian poetess Maria Miraglia and into Arabic by famous Syrian poetess Shurouk Hammouud. She won : distinction (2014) and medal (2015) on Nosside poetry competition in Italy, statuette in Lithuania (2015), medal of European Academy Science, Arts and Letters in France (2018)), award of Cultural Festival International “Tra le parole e l’ infinito” Italy (2018) She was also twice nominated to the Pushcart Prize in the USA. Alicja Kuberska is a member of the Polish Writers Associations in Warsaw (Poland), E- literaci (Poland)and IWA Bogdani, (Albania). She is also a member of directors’ board of Soflay Literature Foundation (Pakistan), Our Poetry Archive (India). She is Polish Ambassador of Culture of The Inner Child Press (the USA). She belongs to Editorial Advisory Board of Sahitya Anand (India) and IPA Editorial (India).