Title: Traces on Paths That No

Longer Exist

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Title: Traces on Paths That No

Longer Exist

Kasia Dominik

Title: Traces on Paths That No Longer Exist

When a misty morning awakens dawn over the Raba River,

the calm waters carry memories

in a stream traced in narrow bends.

The meadows smell of dew. Heavy with drops,

they rustle as you walk on them.

.

Oaks – witnesses of ancient journeys,

growing along the road,

hide in their shadow the ancient

beauty of transience without a word.

.

A field, scattered to the horizon

like an unfinished painting,

glisten in the light of the moon,

whose crescent hangs over the village.

It wants to illuminate the gray road:

lonely, heading towards the sky..

Underfoot: sand, gravel,

particles of bygone days,

and in the distance – only silence,

and the scent of homeland..

Kasia Dominik

(Poland)