World Poems- Poet: Monica Korycinska

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Monica Korycinska

Flowers

Biography:

"I was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1977, and I have been living in Germany since the age of 11. In 2005 I graduated as translator from the University of the Saarland, Germany. Last year my partner and I set up our own business: an online translation service: EnergyTranslations - Where Quality has no Limits.

When I was 9 years old I realized for the first time the beauty of the world around me. It was in a summer camp where I used to go in my childhood. Back then I couldn't put this beauty into words. I think I couldn't even fully grasp it or organize my emotions into thoughts. I just remember standing there, a French love song in the background, and wondering how amazing everything was. I just couldn't stop wondering
about the peculiarity of the world as it appeared to me then. At that moment something moved and changed inside me. And from then on I
sometimes find myself in those strange, weird, odd, uncommon states of mind when my poetry is born. It's like hearing a voice from within. Sometimes it comes through, sometimes it doesn't.

I wrote my first poem when I was 14 years old but didn't keep it up for a long time. I started to write more frequently about 7 years ago. I write by inspiration, after having listened to a song or after having read a book that captures me... But sometimes small, apparently insignificant things inspire me, like a reflection of raindrops in the light of a torch, an odd sound in an old house or a flower with an extraordinary smell, a thought that came to my mind, a word spoken by some lips... Sometimes I like to express the "dark" feelings in my poems, letting the ugliness go, to philosophise about God, the world and me fitting or not into this concept. Other times I love to write about the beauty of the world, people, love,...
In December 2006 some of my poetry was published in: "World's Strand. An international anthology of poetry", Mandelbachtal/Cambridge: edition Cicero, 2006, ISBN 3-934285-55-4.

I love travelling. If I could I would spend my whole life traveling all over the world and writing poetry and short stories about every country and town I’ve been to and people I’ve met. In between, I would read all the works by my favorite writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Angel Asturias, Marcel Proust, Mario Vargas Llosa, Henry Miller, Truman Capote, Alejo Carpentier, Isabel Allende...
My other interests and passions are music (especially Latin American music), quantum theory and astrophysics."

Poems by Monica Korycinska:


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