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ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
OV_apukili: For a solemn opening
of his post-mortem exhibit
he will arrive and stand by me
in his old grey sweater.
Stooping,
strong.
Nobody will see him
only I will look at him.
He will say:
— We survived them.
— Anna Świrszczyńska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
curry_nyc: Those who gave the first order to fight
let them now count our corpses.
Let them go through the streets
that are not there
through the city
that is not there
let them count for weeks for months
let them count our corpses
till death.
-- Anna Świrszczyńska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
chenchenwrites: I Am Filled with Love
I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind,
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
—Anna Świrszczyńska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
ansfavwords: I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
DG_Arturo: I AM FILLED WITH LOVE
I am filled with love
as a great tree with the wind,
as a sponge with the ocean,
as a great life with suffering,
as time with death.
Anna Swir Świrszczyńska
sergisonic: Anna Swirszczynska's great poem,'Building The Barricade':
«We were afraid as we built the barricade / under fire».
bbperkz: Happy closing of this year, friends. Don't forget to celebrate the returning of the light!
Whether in daytime or in nighttime
I always carry inside
a light.
In the middle of noise and turmoil
I carry silence.
Always
I carry light and silence.
--Anna Świrszczyńska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
goodnatureart: An empty day without events.
And that is why
it grew immense
as space. And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.
I heard
in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.
Anna Swirszczynska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
11aadilhussain: I fear
the place I have
in the memory of others.
They remind me of things
I myself have forgot.
—Tove Ditlevsen.
I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.
—Anna Swirszczynska
PrzekrojM: "I will survive.
I’ll find the deepest basement,
shut myself inside, won’t let anybody in,
I’ll dig a hole in the ground,
chew out the bricks,
I’ll hide in the wall, I’ll go into the wall
like a centipede".
(Anna Świrszczyńska, Man and centipede”)
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
Muneer_hossein: Do not kiss me, my love.
Do not hold me, my love.
If you love me, my love,
kill me.
Anna Swirszczynska: postwar Polish poetry, an anthology.
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
peterdamianent1: Tomorrow They Will Carve Me Anna Świrszczyńska (Anna Swir) - writes movingly, defiantly, realistically about life and death. Death came and stood by me. I said: I am ready. I am lying in the surgery clinic in Krakow. Tomorrow they will carve...
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
HildaMadeira: i envy you. every moment. you can leave me. i cannot leave myself.
anna swirszczynska
YasminDjoudi: Anna Swir (Anna Świrszczyńska) 1909-1984
Lifelong poet and writer, also member of WWII Polish resistance and military nurse.
‘Fat Like the Sun’ - love, intimacy, & a snapshot of social & gender issues in her lifetime.
‘Blue Pyjamas’ - my favourite in this whole collection
KashmirMailbox: “I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.”
Anna Swirszczynska
goodnatureart: An empty day without events.
And that is why
it grew immense
as space. And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.
I heard
in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.
~ Anna Swirszczynska
goodnatureart: An empty day without events.
And that is why
it grew immense
as space. And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.
I heard
in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.
~ Anna Swirszczynska
Jane Mead:
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
StanleySBill: Her works were published in English under the name "Anna Swir" on the assumption that anglophone readers couldn't handle the apparent car crash of consonants that is "Świrszczyńska".
StanleySBill: In recent days I have returned to Polish poet Anna Świrszczyńska (1909–1984). She wrote poems on her experience of the Warsaw Uprising; she also wrote lyric meditations on the body - especially on women's bodies. Here is one (trans. C. Miłosz/L. Nathan).
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
whyisbrittany: The Sea and the Man - by Anna Swirszczyńska. You will not tame this sea, either by humility or rapture. But you can laugh in it’s face. Laughter, was invented by those, who live briefly, as a burst of laughter. The eternal sea, will never learn to laugh.
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
aashannon: 'I swam away from myself.
Do not call me.
Swim away from yourself, too.
We will swim away, leaving our bodies
on the shore
like a pair of beach sandals.'
By Anna Świrszczyńska
Polish poetry is beautiful (even when translated somehow).
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
Poetry_Daily: Today's Featured Poet:
Anna Swir (Świrszczyńska) was born in Warsaw in 1909, the daughter of an impoverished painter. During World War II she was part of the Polish Resistance and wrote for underground publications. She died of cancer in 1984.
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
BetoReitenbach: "Happy as something unimportant
and free as a thing unimportant.
(...)
Happy as no matter what,
as any no matter what.
Happy
as a dog’s tail.”
― Anna Świrszczyńska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
joy_pops: Happy as something unimportant
and free as a thing unimportant...
Anna Swirszczynska.
Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan.
ash_pyle: Anna Świrszczyńska was a Polish Resistance fighter during WWII. At one point she was captured by the Nazis and was within an hour of execution, but was spared. In her later years she went on to write poetry about sensuality, and the female body
meskahl: "now my nonexistence dies already
with the trite death of mathematical fiction.
as trite as the death of my existence
would have been had i been really born."
- Anna Świrszczyńska
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
hlmt_bot: Anna Swirszczynska — 'I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.'
RobReitenbach: I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself.
― Anna Swirszczynska
