Hello @bacus15
Thank you for visiting my blog (which is how I found myself over here, of course).
I very much enjoyed this ponder of a poem and would love to see the Polish version. Perhaps in future posts you could post both the Polish and English translation together?
It's nice to meet you and welcome to Steemit. :)
Welcome. I like simplicity of those your poems i have read.
Thank you. This particular poem does not have Polish version as of now, i have written it in English (but lets see, of course). When it comes to vast majority of my Polish poems, they are incredibly difficult to translate. Some even deem them an impossible to translate.
They are so deeply rooted in intricaties of Polish language. Though, i will always attempt to try render them, promise :) .
Thank you.
Okay, good, I was not sure if there had been an original version (in Polish). It does seem that many translations, especially of poetry lose something along the way.
Yes. But still i recollect some good translations of Celan into Polish, Celan being very hermetic poet.
Yes, however, he was a talented translator also.
Yes. Did you hear about Polish poets Tymoteusz Karpowicz and Krystyna Miłobędzka?
No.... looking them up.
I dont know whether they had their works translated into English. Karpowicz probably, he was living in the US many years, and he worked at American universities.
Yes, I see some from Karpowicz upon a fast search. I'm enjoying what I see so far.