Dariusz Tomasz Lebioda

President

DARIUSZ TOMASZ LEBIODA PH. D. – Polish poet, writer, literature professor, translator, editor, Dariusz Tomasz Lebioda was born in Bydgoszcz , Poland in 1958. In 1994 he received Ph. D. in Polish literature at Gdansk University and then teaches 30 years in Kazimierz Wielki University. He is Visiting Professor of The State University of New York at Buffalo – SUNY (2002) and longtime researcher at Polish universities and colleges. He is the author of more than one hundred books of poetry, short stories, diaries, essays, scientific monographs of European romantic poets, contemporary Polish poets (Miłosz, Herbert, Różewicz, Szymborska) and world novelists (Faulkner, Caldwell, Golding, Singer, Murdoch, Pahmuk, Coetzee, Naipaul, Lessing, Le Clézio). He is the winner of a lot of Polish literary prizes: that of Andrzej Bursa’s Award, Stanisław Wyspiański’s Award, UNESCO Prize of International Day of Poetry, Ianicius Award and Bruno’s Award. He published books of selected poems translated into many languages – English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese and many more. He is the guest of many world literary festivals, including those in United States, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Kenya, South Africa, Iraq, China, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Belgium, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. From year 2015, he is the President of European Medal Of Poetry And Art – HOMER, with winners: Adonis, Gamoneda, Lilburn, Venclova, Kunze, Lane and Lojo.

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SELECTED POEMS

ON THE BANKS OF EUPHRAT

I sat on the banks of the great

river and I was thinking

over the world-

no use to anyone reflection

no one is dealing with care

in the land of war and

the transferred blood bird

stops over the depths

palm trees glisten among

patterns glow-

the eternal circle of the red sun

slowly flows down behind

the horizon

and cicadas begin

the mating dance

the world goes out in the minds of

awareness explodes

middle of the world-

man is empty wineskin

of existence

only the last

drop waiting in it

to dry

The Euphratesin 2013

BAY

You stand at the gates of the bay

and watch into the far

blue vapors cover the hills

the light filtered in silently

through a garnet net

of days

you happened once

on all eternity and

never you won't

repeat

you exist in an instant

moment you feel pain

and delight

you separate the green

from navy blue and white

from black

every day more and more

you are closer to deaf

of nothingness

Chalcis 2023

LAKE QINGHAI

Oh lake Qinghai, sea of tears shining

transparent and crystal-clear

The wind plays the cords above

underneath falls the sediment of salt

A solitary bird plunges into

blue deepness, its sharp

shadow scares away fish

Horses graze freely on shore

and there is pure longing and

dark despair glimmering

in the sky

Far away distance gently

quivers like strings

of the cithern

–That’s the way it’s always been,

centuries back and years to come

A fisherman will sit on the board

a shepherd will gaze into

luminous mounts

The lake will last lonely and

in the sun momentary human lives

will shine like

sparks

Qinghai 2009

ARISTOTLE'S BUST

There is only matter

and nothing is outside

of it

in the rays of the sun

in flashes on the water

in the murky depths

bright thought

like a hibiscus petal

matter has her depths

and secret tunnels where

celebrates the death of ideas

and distant silence

steps

on the seashore Aristotle

stares into the perfect

distances

it abides in itself like a stone

in a stone like fish in fish

crab in crab like a moment

in eternity

Chalcis 2023

EUBOEA

Like a huge white clam the coastal

city stuck to black rocks

far shores reflected in green

depths white gliding clouds

hanging over the horizon

a lonely boat passes by planes

of silence brilliance

and turquoise salt

in the sun everything becomes

expressive and confirming

value of duration

among the eternal

gave

Euboea 2023