The following poems were originally written in Polish. I will include them in one of my future publications.

To translate a poem into a different language you have to take into account a lot of components. First of all the meaning, content, then the rhythm, then the rhymes, then the cultural background and number of syllables on one line. Well ... it is very difficult, if not impossible sometimes. The fragments below are just an attempt to translate the content. If you know both Polish and English and would like to improve the translations to add other components than just a meaning you are welcome to send a note to me.

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• So what else do you need?
• To appreciate ...

So what else do you need?

No need for eyes to see
In night-dreams we see with the eyes closed
No need to have ears to hear a song of joy
When we remember sounds turned into notes

Bedlam of the world is mute
If you get into the gap between thoughts
No need for lips to say words of heart and soul
For the message can be passed on with a mere telepathic gesture

You do not have to possess legs
To wander away in thoughts into far away worlds of dreams
You do not need to have hands to open door to heaven
For it is never closed

You do not have to be under influence ...
To be bewildered by the fresh air
You do not have to possess body
For Lord loves you in bodiless form of the ... covenant

You do not have to drink wine ...
Since it has become blood - to repeat the tradition
And you do not have to eat bread
Because it has become body in a mystical way

No need to nail down again
Christ to the cross
For sins of the mankind
Are already redeemed

No need for money
To throw a soul into mud ...
To experience the taste of an apple or spring water
You do not need gold

You need to possess nothing
To experience beauty and joy every day
But you must be yourself to know
That every moment of life is important

You do not need more time
When you utilize time wisely
You are busy ... so busy ...
But somebody will not exist any more tomorrow

You do not need to know language
To understand God and a soul companion
You do not need to know how to count
To know which moment is first and which is the last

You do not have to possess anything
To emerge yourself in the ocean of love
Only open your heart and soul
To get acquainted with the constant law of infinity

So . What else do you need to possess?
Your list is full of greed
You have got love and the love is all that you need ..
For everything! .. Till the very end! ...

Good Friday, April 14, 2006.

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To appreciate ...

Why ...
Do we have to lose … for good
To fully appreciate the value?
Why ...
In everydayness we do not notice beauty
Which is so omni-present ?

Why ...
Can't we make stay
What is so close to our heart?
Why ...
Are the footprints taken away by the wind
Though the images of them stay in our mind?

Why ...
Don't we treat
Neighbors as ourselves?
Why ...
Do we ask so rarely
"Why"?

Why ...
Do we take for granted
What we should admire?
Why ...
Don't we pick up from the ground
A crumb of bread accidentally dropped?

Why ...
Don't we say every day ... "I love you"
To those who love us?
Why ...
Do we need to be reminded
About good traditions?

Why ...
Don't we praise when
The time is ripe?
Why ...
Do we want to show anger
When not justified?

Why? Why?
I write to let us ponder
To turn around our destiny
To appreciate every moment ... everybody
... And every drop of dew

June 14-15, 2006