Strona główna Bibliografia
Poems in English
Translated by Teresa Belowa
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Philosophy of signs and symbols
has a meaning on1y for those
who profess it.
Others cannot find
consolation in it.
Clear thinking
will pierce the darkness of ignorance,
but not a thicket of human passions.
Passions will not be brightened up
even by laser beams.

      11 July 1999

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Only beauty
can obscure
and even eclipse
freedom and bondage
meanness and money
all the bounties
and miseries of the earth

It is a pity that so seldom
do we notice beauty
so few of us see it
and still fewer accept it
turning it into banality

      15 July 1999

Published originally as: [Filozofia znaków i symboli] ; [Tylko piękno] [wiersze ]. -Tekst również w jęz. ang. ; tł. z pol. Teresa Belowa. - Poezja Dzisiaj. - Nr 29/30. - (2003) s. 134-135