poems by Paweł Markiewicz

Germany in the nighttime

 

1961 – the wall has been built

once sixty-one stars glowed over the native land

the East Germany rife with butterflies sparkled in the night

the Western Germany full of west wood garlics glinted in the evening

the fall of the Berlin Wall was an indulgence

then shooting stars fell down

at the moonglow

the night reveals the policies

with the most amazing dreams

the dream about roses

from 1935

was killed forever

by the murkiness of comets

that never could be blazing fiercely

the night crawled

the German Bundestag was light-filled

by all kinds of lights of the new wizardry

thousands of laws are glistering

at the stars-shine

the myth of Germany

is an ancient legend

from the emperor Otto the Great

the history is a night rainbow

awakened in some dreameries

of a dazzling thinker

Hitler wants to be forgotten

forever and for sempiternity

of a night sorcery

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glister – literary: glitter

 

 

 

The mysteries of four seasons

 

the dreamed winter

the storks sitting meekly in Africa

the butterfly frozen in the marvelous pond

mice write a gorgeous myth

a rural boy longs for the moonglow

witch apollonianly bewitched

a stunning world

in a moony way

I am full of druidic wizardries

You are like a dragonfly

We are singing

 

the dream-like spring

the storks are coming home so tenderly

the butterfly awoken in glory but sitting

mice write ovidian songs

a rural girl yearns for afterglow

in addition hex enchanted

a dazzling world

in a starlit way

I am shrouded in this cool mystery

You are such a firefly

We are trilling

 

the dreamy summer

the storks are nesting mayhap peacefully

the butterfly flying over becharmed garden

mice write Dionysian ode

an auntie is bent upon blue hours

the enchantress is conjured

amusing world

in a starry way

I wrapped in plethora of sorcery

You are Dionysian spider

We are chanting

 

the dreamful autumn

the storks are going to fly off musing

the butterfly dreaming just before coming death

mice write Apollo’s hymn

an uncle muses about cool star

the sorceress enraptured

such a cute world

in a moonlit way

I stay under a spell of tenderness

You are like a charmful bee

We caroling

 

 

 

A day from life of Klaus Werner Swamp-Man

 

The marvelous winter has come

with the most tender Christmas Eve

 

Klaus Werner Swamp-Man awaits dream

august Moment is revealed

 

Klaus a forester lives alone

in a clear home amidst the grove

 

In the evening praying by table

he enjoyed freedom of silence

 

Oracular characters come

after rook has visited his

 

The rook knows from the black raven

that there are marsh-treasures hidden

 

Next hydra bangs on the window

she gives to Werner the obol

 

He enchants tenderly the guest:

>The eternal moor! Dream with us!<

 

Then a Stymphalian’s birdlet comes

flying in dazzling-brilliant ways

 

The bird gives away an obol

the man told him the gorgeous words

 

>Eternal moory landscape dwell!

such for the ghosts a meek landscape<

 

Hereafter attends – Dionysus

sir of numinous moory homes

 

Third obolus – given away

therefor can be valid Klaus’ dream

 

Oboli are being given

>Be the fen full of tender myths!<

 

Mister Swamp-Man boasts of marshlands

they are free in eternities

 

Rook is nidifying in tree

the plant stays over the moor-mist

 

Bewitched landscape and dreamy bog

and women dream of moory fog

 

Two women seem to have been enchanted of the boglet (my neologism) plainly in a propitious way.

 

poems by Paweł Markiewicz

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