"Voiceless Like a Scream Tent-Pitched On a Steel String" III

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Bezgłose jak rozpięty na strunie krzyk

(Eng. Voiceless Like a Scream Tent-Pitched On a Steel String)

 

self-portrait

(October 23, 2016)

Florida, U.S.

 

 

inspired by the poem "Dissonance" (excerpt) of H. Poświatowska

 

Polish text Copyright 1989 Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, Poland

Halina Poświatowska, Polish, d. 11 oct 1967.

translation by Marek Lugowski

twice22.org/HalinaFAQ/

 

 

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z czołem opartym

bezgłose

jak rozpięty na strunie krzyk

łapczywie chwytamy oddech

liczymy raz... dwa... trzy...

 

świat ma tylko dwa piętra

tyko dwa

nieduże

z krążącymi gwiazdami świat

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dlaczego tak trudno umrzeć?

 

 

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with foreheads leaning

voiceless

like a scream tent-pitched on a steel string

we greedily catch our breath

counting one... two... three...

 

the world is just two stories tall

just two

pretty tiny

a world with stars circling

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why is dying so hard?

 

 

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