Poetry Forum

when I met you it came to my mind - the story of an old hassid who believed that every word he utters brings him closer to death. the year was 1939. september came along with its suddenness sunburnt people were freezing on roadsides. roads were raising clouds of dust and the dust was settling on the...

actually when i'm reading loud my poems, i'm not using this full stops. that is just my idea of writing. text is more expressive then. about capitals. i'm using capitals only in matter of God, thats all. i just reckon that "I" suppose to be in small letters, that's the mistake of the trans...

Thanks Guys. It's good to know, that You support me. I will do me best.

swing. abstract. liv tyler’s mysterious smile. and it seems like lying in the damask. somebody rang in the morning and I don’t know who it was. hypocrisy on tv. I’m eating toasts. discovery channel – a programme on big cities. maranatha like manhattan. trance. and then – bond thwarts every attempt o...

A Polish guy goes to the opticians.
Optician : Can you read the bottom line of the chart?
Polish guy: Read it? I know him!

nice one

voila!


HORACY
Jak ty do siebie. Taką właśnie zbroję
Miał wtedy, kiedy Norweżczyka pobił:
Tak samo, pomnę, marszczył czoło wtedy,
Kiedy po bitwie zaciętej na lodach
Rozbił tabory Polaków. Rzecz dziwna!

if you can show me the place of this werse in Hamlet maybe I could find it in Polish.

hi, my name is Martin Lukas Makowski. as you do or don't know, I'm from Poland (the country with one have the half of the UK in their hands right now). I'm still working on my English- sorry for any language errors. All poems that I'm sending, are my works. Translations are from Joanna Bakalarczyk- ...

about poems. everything that i'm sending, is my own works. Joanna is my friend, and she's translating my poems sometime.
about england and english people. i was living in UK for five months and i do know, that you are a specific nation in deed

Mak..
Sounds like my biography...

so maybe you have a Polish roots then?

Hey Mak - makes a lot of sense, which must be why the country is in such a mess . . . . Is it the twin's fault, or the wind's fault? - that is the question you are not up-to-date. twin's goverment lost the election. now we have a new one, and EURO 2012 with Ukraine. who knows, maybe in the same yea...

can anyone say anything about this poem? is he god? is translation correct?
thanks

Mak, I believe the Germans think that Shakespeare actually sounds better in German. (They would.) How does he sound in Polish?

like a wind, my friend. everything in Polish sounds like a wind.

if that suppose to be a joke, that is a lame joke ;) and if we are joking, here you have the same thing but in Polish (without smile faces): Być albo nie być- oto jest pytanie. Kto postępuje godniej: ten, kto biernie stoi pod gradem zajadłych strzał losu, Czy ten, kto stawia opór morzu nieszczęść I ...

thank you. i'm surprised that you are telling me such a nice words. in my poems i'm always trying to tell something, something that is new and completly mine. i'm glad if someone could find a little bit of himself in my works. about critique i'm trying to do my best, i'll be making a progress, have ...

I'd be interested if you could point out the well known metaphors. let's go: "Shadows, like memories" -comparing shadows to memories is as old as the invention of the wheel. "urging moths to sacrifice their wings in candleflame" -moths in the flames; sacrifice, imagination, meta...

thank You very much for helping me. i realy appreciate that. Uh, yeah. It is my hope that you will want to critique because not because you have to do it (although you do) but because you might want to in the spirit of goodwill. But we can't ask for everything, can we? yeah, that cound sounds like t...

So who speaks English - you or your translator? i'm speaking english but not in the enough level to translate a poetry. God help us all - an Emerson Lake & Palmer fan, are you? yes, i'm a fan of E,L&P. one of my favourite band. the same with led zeppelin and deep purple. I'd never heard of ...

Makowski, man (or do you prefer, "The Dude"?) - are you Polish, then? I know a lot of Polish guys, I think there's a tad of a cultural clash on here, your post seems a little obtuse, such are the differences I've experiened in ettiqutte - You might not care, I don't, but perhaps a suggest...

What's the point in writing about anything? Is there a list of subjects that we are forbidden to use in poetry? - I didn't know that. The 'old tale' is an event in British history which is still celebrated every year on November 5th. You don't seem to think it pointless telling us about what happen...

that's true, poem is relaxing, and similar to the classic ones, like Yeates. but Yeates is dead for long time now, and we are living in XXI century. when i was reading Your poem i was thinking it coud be written in the medieval ages, and you coundn't see a difference. if You know what i mean.

1. yesteday I didn’t go out throughout the whole day. they showed some blazing bus in the news. then you phoned me. at 6 – I ate cold dinner. (wondering about one thing) will the supper find me ready for the second coming of the Lord. sometimes I feel like doing something cool. that’s a matter of ch...

Shadows, like memories

that's so old. a lot of people before You was writing similar things.
what is the point, to write about old tales in old metaphors? and it is about whole poem. sorry

to the bleeding edge of reason. that's good. and about In fractured light photons reveal their true hues. - I see You are interesting about quantum physics. thats great, because it is something different than poems about roses and angels. we are living in XXI centaury and we suppose to write about ...

sorry. that don't impress me much. quote in the beginning of the poem, was better than a poem itself.
nothing new, nothing fresh, but keep tryin'.