"tadeusz" poems
49.
Men, Niemen?
most, rzeka i autobus
zatacza się w pagórki
Wilia?
w upale budzą się Suwałki
Memel zaciąga brzeg lasem
znużoną powieką
Memelland ist abgebrannt
mury
pagórki
coraz to milej do ciebie
miłe miasto
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53.
NA ANTOKOLU
na Antokolu
barok wkoło
stiukowi święci
w plafony wzięci
królowie
żyd jak żywy
w peruce na głowie
triumfuje w purpurze
nad ołtarzem w górze
zaś przy drzwiach
z krzyża zdejmowany
nie baczy na rany świeże
dłoń składa na grzbiecie
na nowym habicie
w ofierze
wpółobjęty
z jednego gwoździa zdjęty
ledwo, a już łaskawie
nad mieczykami z ogrodu
błogosławi płotu
regina pacis
dwa bębny tureckie
zdobyte pod Chocimiem
milczą w kruchcie nad Wilią
60.
JAK WILENKA
spóźnimy się na wieczór Alicji Rybałko
jak Wilenka po Zarzeczu kluczymy; mosty
w zaułki - miasto dla nas na trzy klucze
zamknięte, jak bajka o spiżowym wilku
w Pikieliszkach za dworem księżyc studzi jezioro
para łabędzi przy brzegu - tak prosto romantycznie
i książki w bibliotece dla dzieci tu
nadal dostać można jedynie po rosyjsku
a poezja Alicji, jak gotyk św. Anny
na palach olchowych i workach piasku
w płomienistym po wielokroć łuku
przenoszę na dłoni ten kościół
Stefan Kosiewski; OBY DO WILNA. Wiersze. Wstęp: Dr Romuald Cudak: Na marginesie. Redakcja: Barbara Jędrzejczak. Opracowanie, korekta: Tadeusz Adam Knopik. Łamanie: Robert Kosek. Wydawca: Stowarzyszenie Europejskie PONS GAULI; współwydawca: Radio PLUS Katowice Sp. z o.o. Drukarnia im. K. Miarki w Mikołowie. Katowice 2000 ISBN 83-914127-0-9
Mar 16, 2020
Mar 16, 2020 at 4:59 AM UTC
Run little Polish boy
Run in your field
Learn of your great land
And what it may yield
Learn little polish boy
Learn how to fight
Soon you will grow up
And protect what is right
Know little polish man
Know about freedom
Go to the foreign land
And do what must be done
Fight now you polish man
Fight for the cause
Even if you might die
They have freedom in their jaws
You fight for America
Right on freedom's side
You fight for what you believe in
As you risk your hide
You make friend with founding fathers
As you fight for their home
You construct an army fortress
To protect them as you roam
When the war is over
they give you riches when you go
But you spend it on freedom
That you've come to know
You give it to a founding father
To give up all his slaves
Then you get on the boat
And face Atlantic waves
Fight now you polish man
Fight for where you where born
Fight hard polish man
Charge at the bleeding horns
You die now old polish man
You can not fight no more
Dead is the polish man
With freedom in his core
This is a Tribute to Tadeusz Kouzico a polish war hero who fought in the American revolution
Jan 10, 2017
Jan 10, 2017 at 2:01 AM UTC
*i don't mind these karaoke shows sometimes, watched the semi-finals, and one of the song choices was the hidden gem the chain off fleetwood mac's rumours album... never heard it before... go your own way hid it, overplayed on the radio, plus i was more into peter green's mac, akin to tadeusz nalepa's breakout.*
walking back from the shop
with a baggage of the usual
sedatives, ahead on the pavement
two guys, and behind them
three african beauties...
beauty soon faded, passed the two
guys on the pavement,
the three "beauties" took up
the entire width of the pavement,
nearing them not one budged
to give me space,
half a metre from them i stopped...
no no girl, i'm not going
to walk the double yellow line
of the road... move!
by stopping i peered into her eyes...
if i kept on walking she'd
fall to the ground, this is a body
6ft2 and 115kg...
does politeness have to be this forced?
have i suddenly become
a protagonist in a ralph ellison novel
or something?
stood my ground... didn't walk in
the gutter like a jew in prague or
cracow in 1942 - why did i have to force
a space for myself on the pavement?
i'm not a body of rubber, alloys
and leather seating -
i deserve the same walking space
on the designated highway of footsteps.
Apr 2, 2016
Apr 2, 2016 at 6:00 PM UTC
Nothing changed,
Their world hasn’t been rearranged.
The children still go to school.
One of them is dressed uncool.
Mourning, only wearing black,
There is no way back.
Another kid comes in—
laughs and mutters: **** it! we never win.”
There is a boy in the hallway,
Crying because he doesn’t get a say.
Karol Tadeusz Nawrocki is now,
THEIR president,
THEIR leader,
THEIR ruler,
THEIR FATE.
They lost.
They heard Magdalena Agnieszka Biejat—
her name sadly couldn’t make it.
Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski?
another face on the losing ballot.
PiS won,
but at what cost?
A corridor of silent tears.
A playground where laughter dies.
A future stolen from poor kids.
Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM UTC