Day: September 16, 2009

Poetry

September 16 – Farewell to Maria by Tadeusz Borowski

If you are living, remember
I’m alive. But don’t come to me.
In this black, swollen night
snowflakes cling to the windows

And the wind whistles. And naked shapes
of trees slap the window. And above me like
smoke from charred cities and battle fronts
drifts the deaf, measureless silence.

This appalling silence! Why have I
lived so long? Now, only bitterness.
Don’t come back to me. My love
burned away in the flames of the crematorium.

There, you were mine. Your body
covered in scabies and boils, rose up
like a cloud. There you were mine,
from heaven, from fire. Now it’s over.

You won’t come back to me. Nor will
that wind return, drunk with fog.
The dead will not rise from common graves
and brittle ash won’t come back to life.

I don’t want it, don’t come back. It was all
playacting, a fiction, hollow theatrics.
Your love circles above me
like human smoke above the wind.

Translation unattributed

Jeżeli żyjesz — to pamiętaj,
że jestem. Ale do mnie nie idz.
W tej nocy czarnej, opuchniętej
snieg się do szyb płatami klei.

I gwiżdże wiatr. I nagi kontur
drzew bije w okno. I nade mna
jak dym zagasłych miast i frontów
płynie niezmierna, głucha ciemnosć.

Jak strasznie cicho! Po cóż było
aż dotad żyć? Już tylko gorycz.
Nie wracaj do mnie. Moja miłosć
jest zżarta ogniem krematorium.

Stamtad cię miałem. Twoje ciało
w swierzbie, w flegmonie tak się pięło
jak obłok wzwyż. Stamtad cię miałem,
z niebiosów, z ognia. Przeminęło.

Nie wrócisz do mnie. Razem z toba
nie wróci wiatr, co mgła się opił.
Nie wstana ludzie z wspólnych grobów
i nie ożyje kruchy popiół.

Nie chcę, nie wracaj. Wszystko było
gra nasza, złuda, czczym teatrem.
Kraży nade mna twoja miłosć
jak dym człowieka ponad wiatrem.

LifeStream

Daily Digest for September 16th

twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: Daily Digest for September 14th http://bit.ly/e8hZ1 [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: September 9 – A Quiet Moment Comes After a Storm by Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski http://bit.ly/yv0Pp [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: September 10 – Leaves are falling by Wincenty Pol http://bit.ly/3mGsLS [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: September 13 – Let Brotherly Love Continue by Zhou Gong http://bit.ly/MMuLS [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: September 12 – A Sonnet on the Wonders of Love by Jan Andrzej Morsztyn http://bit.ly/1qcKfs [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: Oh yeah, and about that… http://bit.ly/NMO4V [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: The world, Europe, Chrstianity, and the creation of greatness http://bit.ly/p6Nfi [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: On St. Casimir’s near Rochester, NY http://bit.ly/dMp4q [deacon_jim]
lastfm (feed #3)
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: Adam Mickiewicz, The Life of a Romantic http://bit.ly/2lHPcm [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: A tour of Polish Greenpoint and pre-war Warsaw http://bit.ly/wpxF6 [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: Arts-2-gether: Call for Master Level and Field Teaching Artists http://bit.ly/1esksX [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: September 14 – The Exaltation of the Cross by Adam of St. Victor http://bit.ly/2HGV9k [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: Daily Digest for September 15th http://bit.ly/4brxar [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: The Youth of the PNCC explain it all http://bit.ly/dBRum [deacon_jim]
twitter (feed #4)
New blog post: Spaghetti dinner at Holy Cross Parish in Wilkes-Barre, PA http://bit.ly/10Awmi [deacon_jim]
lastfm (feed #3)
Listened to 2 songs.
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Spaghetti dinner at Holy Cross Parish in Wilkes-Barre, PA

From the Times Leader: Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church plans spaghetti dinner

A spaghetti dinner will be served from 4-7 p.m. Saturday, September 19th in the hall at Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church, 23 Sheridan St., Wilkes-Barre. Takeouts will be sold. Tickets will be available at the door and proceeds benefit the church. Chances for a variety of baskets that will be raffled off can be purchased in advance from any committee member or at the dinner.

Some committee members from left, seated, are: Joseph Compton, chairman; and the Very Rev. Thaddeus Dymkowski, pastor. Standing: Cathy Morgan; Debbie Zlotnicki; Jodie Januszko; Sandy Jackson; Dolores Wodarczyk; Marion Ritsick; Arline Rosenko; Joseph Ritsick; and Martha Karweta.
Some committee members from left, seated, are: Joseph Compton, chairman; and the Very Rev. Thaddeus Dymkowski, pastor. Standing: Cathy Morgan; Debbie Zlotnicki; Jodie Januszko; Sandy Jackson; Dolores Wodarczyk; Marion Ritsick; Arline Rosenko; Joseph Ritsick; and Martha Karweta.