Incomprehensibility
Thinking about God
you acknowledge His existence
you are waiting for the hand
yet you complain
more and more emptiness around
boundless loneliness
with poetic expression
flushed -
plays guardian angel
however embarassment
will not open wide
the door of understanding
in the numb head -
the trapped thought
in the heart - longing
(longing is mean)
nobody said it to be easy
and is not
such blood bubbling
arm in arm with expectancy
religious hunger without faith
deriving from disbelief
Soulless
His soul left him
and circulate namelessly
superfluous as the body before
without eyes and the pulse
the earth sucks the dried mind
coldness
only fumes after dead love
(she could not even die properly)
no trace of jealousy
no hatred of those dear
and those close to you
but they live
and still cherish love
as a means to the goal
this is an ethernal mystery
mercy for the bad
humiliation for the good
communing with nothingness
only unconditional faith
without expectation for anything
in the One and Only
without intermediaries
of transsubstantiation
will not let you down
in the eye sockets
dream shadows of eternity
The Breath
The way of reminiscence
goes to the departed
sinless years
exciting tracts of knowledge
stages of professional climbing
and saved stanzas
of an unfinished metaphor
of existence
I carry my family home at heart
that is as small as the house
and leaky
as a straw roof of a barn
soon the cliff of life
will fall into the unknown
I’ll try again
to capture her hands
but an inseparable embrace
will not be possible
the time has come for a wave
I touch the imperceptible
Author’s Bionote:
*Kazimierz Burnat: Polish
poet, essayist, translator of Slavic literature, journalist, literary critic,
culture animator, born in Szczepanowice on the Dunajec River. Author of 31
books of poetry, including 8 translations from Czech and Ukrainian, and over 60
collective books with translations of works from these languages, as well as
Belarusian, Russian, Slovenian and Hungarian. Co-author of approximately 400
anthologies and monographs published in Poland and abroad. Translated into 60
foreign languages. Organizer of the International Poetry Festival "Poets
Without Borders" in Polanica-Zdrój. Honored with the Silver Medal
"For Merit to Culture Gloria Artis" as well as the Minister of
Culture and National Heritage Award for creative achievements (2023), and Shabdaguchha
International Poetry Award (USA / Bangladesh 2023), among
other prizes, national and international ones. Since 2015, President of the
Lower Silesian Branch of the Polish Writers’ Union (ZLP) in Wrocław. Honorary
Citizen of Polanica-Zdrój.
you acknowledge His existence
you are waiting for the hand
yet you complain
more and more emptiness around
with poetic expression
flushed -
plays guardian angel
however embarassment
will not open wide
the door of understanding
the trapped thought
in the heart - longing
(longing is mean)
and is not
arm in arm with expectancy
religious hunger without faith
deriving from disbelief
and circulate namelessly
superfluous as the body before
without eyes and the pulse
coldness
only fumes after dead love
(she could not even die properly)
no trace of jealousy
no hatred of those dear
and those close to you
but they live
and still cherish love
as a means to the goal
mercy for the bad
humiliation for the good
communing with nothingness
without expectation for anything
in the One and Only
without intermediaries
of transsubstantiation
will not let you down
dream shadows of eternity
goes to the departed
sinless years
exciting tracts of knowledge
stages of professional climbing
and saved stanzas
of an unfinished metaphor
of existence
that is as small as the house
and leaky
as a straw roof of a barn
will fall into the unknown
I’ll try again
to capture her hands
but an inseparable embrace
will not be possible