RELICS
SCALES PRUSSIANS`s
Spiteful people envied
That Wojciech has a lot of friends
They lied that not will a harvest
Will die of hunger who christened
It happened in the north of Poland
Between Elbląg and Królewiec
The pagans killed Wojciech`s
The message sent to Gniezno
If the King wishes his body
To bury with dignity in Poland
He shall have to pay a ransom
In gold equal to the missionary`s weight
King agreed to that because he knew
That his body is priceless
On his grave built
The oldest Polish Cathedral
RELICS
The touch the Jesus` Robe
Cured the bleeding
Even than Martin Luter
Started the war against the relics
There is a brief mention
In the Act of the Apostles
That the robe of Saint Peter
The sick people wished to touch
The relics St. Wojciech`s
Wandered to Prague
The envies Czechs brothers
Later on brought them back
The most relics` lost
During the Swedish Deluge
That it was “the war with the ghost”
In a very literal sense
The communist`s broke
The Lutherans` records afterwards
Robbed our temples again
Thieves inspired by them
SAINT KINGA`s RING
It is a fable about the ring
Which Kinga threw into the well
At her native country Hungary
Found it in the salt mine in Wieliczka
When you something gave to God
You will get a hundred times more
Said Lord Jesus unto Peter
When he asked for a prize of God
Beautiful is a royal-ring
Nice the bishop`s rings
Ring on Jesus` Heart
Are also the wedding rings …
SCULPTURE
One of the art masterpieces
Is the Princess Kinga`s Chapel
Deeply underground in a mine
Mr Klusek carved that of salt
That the second event in history
Because the first is a Lot`s wife
She turned into a column of salt
When left from Sodoma
Her curiosity of bloody spectacle
God so cruelly punished
The mines are a dangerous matter
More than one paid life ours
I was there as a boy
Turned myself in my head
For figures of a wooden
Stairs in there in Wieliczka
FROGS FROM ROSTKÓW
Frogs in Rostków disturbed
When Staś knelt down prayed
In the evenings at the pond
Asked they could be quietly
When a little boy came to pray
Since that time at the command
The frogs prettily squatted
And quite shut their mouths
I would advice to children in a village
This play to replay
And to children in cities that on Christmas Eve
Should listen aquarium fishes
God created the world and world is feeling that
When people are living in friendship with God
A dog not make bark at good men
At the good children the frogs are silencing
PILGRIMAGE
Staś very much wished to become a priest
Like a little who in the entire world
He left a very strange testament
To the millions Poles` little children
To listen urgently their parents
That is our a great duty
Staś broke this Godly Commandment
When his daddy forbade him to be a priest
Kostka stopped to listen daddy`s
He went of his vocation`s voice
Some months roamed
That sapped his health
Over the illness he saw the Saints`
Mary`s, Barbara`s and Angels`
He felt like in the seventh heaven
When got him into the seminary
BOBOLA`S CHASUBLE
Bobola in the village Strachocin
Frightened the parish priests`
One of them said to him:” Ask what I shall do for thee?”
“There I was borned. Ask for memory”
Saint Bobola weared nicely
In that glassy coffin in the capital city
In Janów Podlaski the Soviets cut out
Chasuble on his skin when he having life
In Janów Podlaski the Soviets cut out
His tongue which preached so effectively
His eyes which leaded him to missions
That he quieted and nothing won`t see
The disaster executioners` is their weakness
Nothing of spiritual nothing of arguments
In Janów Podlaski killed body
Bobola`s name endured for ever
BOBOLA`S HOMELAND-COMING
Andrew`s Bobola body
A long time trekked
From Janów to Połock
From Połock to the Russians
The Bishop from Vatican
Asked for the relics
Moscow imposed condition
“Not give to Poland”
The Poles o their part
Pope`s for a long time pleaded
That the relics could have returned
To us from Vatican
That was the triumphant comeback
Slowly by train
The coffin moved across Austria
Andrew rested in Warsaw
GALLEY-SLAVE
Saint Vincent was a galley-slave
For seven years without of hope
That someone redeems him from captivity
That his life will change
Many he promised to God
That to others he will plead for freedom
What promised did that
Whenever established your order
Cared about the hospitals and prisons
Has won the Queen`s respect
Engaged a royal mansion
In various charitable act
Who knows “Szarytki” knows surely
That it is Vincent`s convent
Who wants to study in the seminary`
Knows that it also his creation …
RUE DU BAC
French “Szarytka”
Catherine Laboure
Was a modest nun
Likewise Faustyna
As Faustyna Kowalska
Catherine experienced wonderful visions
Entreated confessor`s …
That he passed to the people
A mysterious picture:
“Immaculate Virgin Mary
Two hearts and stars”
This holly medal given to the people
Nuns her also wore
None of them didn`t know
Who of them that holly medal invented
SEDAN-CHAIR
Pope John was penultimate of Popes
Who sat on the sedan-chair
He was interested how many paid
To boys who Pius`s carried
When he found out, at once
Ordered to double their rate
“I weigh much more
Than previous Pope”
When he heard the rumors of his
Fatness and casual clothes
“Conclave is not the beauty competition”
Replied of matter
When Brigid Bardot came
To him revealing
“Tiny, not to seduce Pope`s”
Said to her
POPE`S CARES
Paul VI for years
Had restless night by night
Dilemmas disrupted your sleep
Were on also over days
It that the truth or the rumor
That is going legend
That Church Council Vatican`s II
Tormented Paul`s dream
The most distressed abortions
Even so the many pressures
He sat and wrote
The beautiful encyclical “Humanae Vitae”
Wanted also to tackle
Permanently of a celibate
Began to give the dispensations
But soon stopped
Liberalism modernism
Very many similar banes
Have clouded Pope`s dream
May he rest in the peace
RING
Saint Pontific Pius X
Invited his Mammy to theVatican
So that she would not feel lonely at home
Children were grow up and she was widow
He boasted to mom at dinner:
“Shall you Mom will think
That anyone of your many sons
Will get the papal throne and the ring?”
Mom was not surprised
Showed on the her wedding-ring
“If it wasn`t wedding your parents
You wouldn`t have the papal-ring and throne”
Pius`s daddy was a postman
Have about twenty children
If he not was such a hearty
Somebody else would be Pope
Mrs. Wojtyła was in poor health
She was about 40 years old
When she gave life
To your third child baby …
UNGODLY COMMUNISM
Two courageous encyclicals
Published Vatican before the war
“Divini Redemptoris” and
“Mit brennender Sorge”
Communism and fascism
Pope Pius sharply condemned
Whereas the world looked
too indifferently on those banes
That Hitler and Stalin
Armed powerfully
The world knew but ignored
Elated by progress
Hollywood didn`t stop
To make frivolous films
Cabarets in Berlin
Starveling at Ukraine
SHORT CIRCUIT
In Kalkuta has no electricity
The generators out of order
Mother Teresa asked
That to leave her alone
“I want to die as all
My poor men from the street
Don`t waste strength and money
For to sustain my life”
It is not a suicide
It is not the despair
She wished quietly to sleep
Told of that heart to heart
At the same day and hour were died
Mother Teresa and her strange lady-friend
Princess Diana who wanted
From paparazzi get away
LIGHTNINGS
Merton was in love
At the Buddhist monks, tradition
At day when was died in Hong-Kong
He had electric shock
Because of a lightning was died
Friend Martin`s Luter
And that time he swear to God
Faithful duty for his life
In America are chairs
The latest instrument of torture
Condemned man sits up on that
Died of electrocute
When I think about that I understand
The words of supplication:
“From unexpected and abrupt death
My Lord My God lets save”
GEORGE FROM OKOPY
He has gone to capital city
There seminary less expensive
There altered your name
The name Alfons has rightly lost
When he joined to army
Was tormented because of the rosary
At firing range on swimming pool
In the battle mask wanted him to sick
What that has delay then
After time Citizen`s Militia prepared to him
Pack up into the bag
That he stopped to preach the stuff
They throw into the deep water
On the aquatic barrier Włocławek
A great many were reclaims
Eminently at peace the burial
THREE PINES
About the George`s monument
In city Białystok
Like the shading of murderers
The three tough pines