The mercenaries of darkness have gathered
And they advised how to kill the light,
The session was opened by Lucifer's grandson
extinguishing candelabras
covering your face behind the mask
Lucifer was on the moon that night.
a plan for expansion was adopted,
The empire demanded fresh borders,
The submarines were hiding behind the wave
And on the islands taken
peoples of blooming cherries
new bases have been created,
When the villages were threatened by monuments
And there were ships around the islands
Testing fresh missiles
among fishing boats,
That fear should fall upon all
rising clouds of atoms and leaves
Fear is simply a powerful weapon
the mercenaries of darkness,
When they intimidate everyone
Who knows if they won't make it?
destroy the boundaries and the light...
Marek Baterovich
Marek Baterowicz, born1944) made his debut as a poet on "The Weekly of the Common" and "The Student" (1971). Book debut - "Verses to Dawn" (W-wa, 1976); the title was an allusion to the night of PRL. In 1981, he published outside censorship a collection of poems entitled "Having broken branches of silence". Since 1985 on emigration, since 1987 in Australia. Author of respective prose titles(M.in "Zarno rises in wound"-1992 in Sydney and 2017 in Warsaw) and many poesy collections specified as "heart and fist" (Sydney, 1987), "From that side of the tree" (Melbourne, 1992 – poems collected), "Place in the atlas" (Sydney, 1996), "Chair and Shadow" (Sydney,2003), "On the Sun leash" (Sydney, 2008). In 2010 in Italy there was a selection of poems – "Canti del pianoa", followed by "Status quo" (Toronto, 2014), a collection of short stories – "Jeu de masques" (Nantes, 2014), "Over large Water" (Sydney, 2015) and an e-book of his naval novel, settled in the 16th century "Aux vents conjurés".(
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