Prescription for a poem
It is not easy to write a poem
You have to gather your thoughts
swirling quickly
like snowflakes during a blizzard
Catch them before they melt
and disappear into oblivion
Later add fever of feelings
and strength of emotion.
Decorate your sentences with your dreams
collected from the silver dust of falling stars.
You can also
pick out a melancholy
longing from the bottom of the lake
and hang it on eyelashes to shine with tears.
Then collect the wet haze of sadness
shimmering like drops of dew on calamus,
add grayness of the November’ s landscape.
Season it with a bit of bitterness and regret.
Or you can
capture the laughter suspended by an echo
between high mountain peaks.
Catch the merry words in the net of butterflies
carried by the warm breath of the wind.
Turn the rainbow over to add a smile to the sky.
Sprinkle it with a touch of humor and joy.
Finally, crazy metaphors must be released.
Let them draw colors from the imagination.
That the poem would acquire a transparent lightness
and like a soup bubble rise above everyday life.
Allow it to fly off in an unknown direction.
Alicja Maria Kuberska
Writer
Poland
