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LITTERATEUR

Polish Poem
This poem is written in Polish language, a West Slavic language belonging to the
Lekhitic subgroup and closely related to Czech, Slovak,and the Sorbian languages
of eastern Germany; it is spoken by the majority of the present population of Poland.

Picture by Marian Maciek Jediński

Zasnucie

Zaczniemy od jutra
Ale co?
Zawiesimy firanki oczu
Odkryjemy pustkę beztroskich dni
Zadamy im cios
Milczącym spojrzeniem
Zginą bezpowrotnie

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Anna Maria Mickiewicz Together we will start

Anna Maria Mickiewicz is a Polish- tomorrow
born poet, writer, editor and foreign But what?
correspondent who writes both in
Polish and in English. Anna moved
to California, and then to London, We will close the
where she has lived for many curtains of our eyes
years. She edits the annual literary We will unravel the void
magazine Pamiętnik of carefree days
Literacki (The Literary Memoir),
London, and Contemporary Writers
of Poland (USA), and is a member We will strike them
of the English Pen. As a student, With a silent glance
she was a co-founder of the They will perish forever
magazine Wywrotowiec
(The Subversive).

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