ANNA MARIA MICKIEWICZ

ANNA MARIA MICKIEWICZ

HE PROPOSED

To invisible clouds

In Regent’s Park

And she

Engulfed in sun-trimmed rose muslin

Stepped through doors of glass

One golden step

Under the sky, now draped

Across a steel clock

At the vertices of Victorian towers

One misty evening

THE CAMELLIAS

Deep in thought, streets of camellias

Drowse…

They wake up redolent with a smell of remembrance

Open their flowers, quickly stealing the sun’s rays

They wait for the Hellenic messenger

For the aromatic waft of sapphire waves

Day by day

Against the gleaming

Rim of the London sky...

THEY WERE NOT THE ONES

They were not the ones

Who ordered the trees to be silent

Who gagged the spring birds

They stand in the glow of the rising sun

Worrying about what will happen

ANNA MARIA MICKIEWICZ

ANNA MARIA MICKIEWICZ is a Polish-born poet, writer and editor, who writes both in Polish and English. Anna lived in California and has now been in London for many years. She edits the annual literary magazine Pamiętnik Literacki (The Literary Notebook), London. She is a member of English Pen. As a student, she was a co-founder of a magazine Wywrotowiec (The Subversive). Her first collection of verse was published in 1985 and her selection of short stories and essays Okruchy z Okrągłego Stołu (Breadcrumbs from the Round Table) appeared in 2000. Her volume of poetry Proscenium was published in 2010. Anna’s poetry has appeared in the United States, UK, Australia and Poland in many literary journals, including Syndic Literary Journal (California), Kritya, The Exiled Link (UK), Poezja Dzisiaj, Akant (Poland) and anthologies, such as Chopin with Cherries. A Tribute in Verse, (Moonrise Press: Los Angeles, 2010), Through A Child’s Eyes: Poems from World War Two, selected by: Moira Andrew (Poetry Space Ltd: Bristol, 2013), Contemporary Writers of Poland, edited by: Danuta Blaszak (Dreammee Little City: Orlando, 2013). She regularly publishes poetry and literature in the London-based Nowy Czas - New Time - and has also written for many other journals, including Wprost (Poland), The Davis Enterprise (California), Nowy Dziennik (New York). Her poetry has featured on the radio in the UK (Poets Anonymous), Australia and Poland.