Po śmierci

Gdy odejdę, tęsknotę żegnając,
Nie obejrzę za siebie ni razu,
Tylko skronie rękoma ściskając,
W martwą ciszę zanurzę się twarzą.

Pójdę tam, gdzie błękitne ogrody
Wśród łagodnej i szarej równiny,
By dojrzałe i złote rwać płody,
Opowieści z tajemnej głębiny.

Giętkich traw zmierzchające jedwabie
I mój byt, moje drugie ustronie…
Wiem, że tutaj się wilk nie podkradnie,
Który wczepił się tam w gardło moje.

Kiedy dojdę, na wskroś wyczerpany,
Pod przytulnym przysiądę się krzakiem
I widmowe nie schylą się trawy
I horyzont tam będzie nijaki.

Choć przeminą nie lata, a wieki,
Smutek mój będzie nadal bezbrzeżny
I mój strach będzie tak samo wielki,
By nie wrócił czas dawny, lubieżny.

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Remember the palace of giants…

Remember the palace of giants, / The pool, full of silvery fish, / Alleys of planes, the highest, / And keeps made of huge stone bricks; / / As my golden horse at the towers / Was prancing, so proud and strong, / And gems decorated his harness / In patterns of delicate work. / / ...

The ship

"What d' you see in my eyes, slightly sparkling, / In my look, hazed with opaque mist?" / "There I saw the sea's deepest darkness / With a big sunken beautiful ship. / / That fine ship... More glorious and braver / None had seen over deep of the sea. / Its high masts under windbreath ...

A fragment of «Tale of Kings»

Once a dark horseman oh a black horse came / He was clad in a black velvet cloak, full of pride. / And his look was so dreadful, as a town aflame, / And so glaring as a flash in the night. / / Curly hair upon shoulders like serpents did twist, / And his voice was a song of the earth and...

Giraffe

Today, I can see that your glance is especially sad, / And hands are especially thin and the hair if up fluff. / Hey, listen, as far as in Africa, down at lake Chad / Is walking a graceful Giraffe. / / He's owing that elegance, slender and languor he is, / Such beautiful patterns are sh...

The Gates of Paradise

There are no seven diamond seals to close / the eternal gates of God's great paradise / it has no tempting charms, no beckoning glow / and to the people remains unrecognized. / / a doorway in a wall long since forsaken / a mass of stones and moss and nothing more. / nearby, a beggar, ...

A portrait of a man

His eyes are lightless underground lakes, / Abandoned castles of the ancient kings. / Marked with the sign of the eternal shame / Of that, the Other One, he never speaks. / The deepest wound, his mouth, dark and purple, / Made with a blade borne of the deadly poison; / And it is sad and ...

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