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Tag: Miguel de Unamuno

laughing hysterically to get noticed

when i read the diary of my favourite thinker
in english, knowing the polish original,
i was a bit disappointed. on the other hand, ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 20/12/2021 1 Minute

a lost voice

will wuhan find its thucydides or lima its camus?
or perhaps a new boccaccio was born somewhere
in kolkata or mumbai? because for now, the wind ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 07/11/2021 1 Minute

an exercise in doubt

if no word is worth its weight in silence,
why should i waste any on the stillness
of this wicked chamber, let alone trifles ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 25/09/2021 1 Minute

old men are dreamers

when i mistook you for someone from my distant past,
it was just an innocent mistake, a bit amusing actually.
and even looking at the world through your eyes, i only ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry 1 Comment 18/09/2021 1 Minute

nine-eleven

first, nineteen men killed two thousand
nine hundred and seventy-seven people.
then the “war on terror” began, which has ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry 2 Comments 11/09/2021 1 Minute

the confession of a liar

listening to the silence of the wise man
in the agora trying to convince me that
i write to leave behind a shadow of my ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 01/09/2021 1 Minute

every next last one

going out for a walk along the promenade in the evenings,
sitting on a bench in the deep shade and exchanging
indifferent glances with the shoelaces passing me by, ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 31/08/2021 1 Minute

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