Eliza Segiet graduated with a Master's Degree in Philosophy, completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Knowledge, Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Jagiellonian University.
Author’s poems Questions and Sea of Mists won the title of the International Publication of the Year 2017 and 2018 in Spillwords Press.
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2019 (USA, November 2019),Nominee for NajiNaaman Literary Prize 2020, November 2019).
Nominated for the iWoman Global Awards 2020 (December 2019)
Author's works can be found in anthologies and literary magazines worldwide.
Translated by ArturKomoter
In memory of Those who stayed there
Forever
For the love of the mountains
they go to places hard to reach
-to make dreams come true:
to be above the clouds,
to experience differently,
to see more.
For the love of the mountains
-they take risk.
Some of them reach
inhospitable summits.
Thirsty for adventures,
they are still trying.
Kazbek, Elbrus
are not just their plans
-they are the goals.
An order
of desires and certainty.
Despite everything, it’s worth it.
The language of time
will show who has arrived
and who has not managed.
For the love of the mountains
they return
or they stay forever.
Below the Surface
In the blistering silence,
deedy,
thirsty for gems,
they burrow an uncertain future.
The unrest of the seekers disappears
with
the opalescence of the uncovered stone.
They keep looking
-one is not enough.
To fulfill their dreams of wealth,
they settle in the underground
Coober Pedy.
There,
in the desert,
it is better to live below the surface
– the lower the cooler
maybe
- the deeper the closer to the stone prize.
They burrow more corridors of hope
to say
I have everything. The world can be mine.
Worse, when at the decline of life
they understand that
- no loot
will resurrect lost time.
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