GALLERY OF DECENT PEOPLE

PUSZKIN

Puszkin was also called Arab
His grandfather was Peter`s adjutant
This “Arab” came from Africa
After his hair, it`s easy to know

Puszkin was friends with Adam
But he still didn`t like Poles
He also quarreled with the skirt chaser Dantes
The ball hit the thigh bone

Today is not a problem for doctors
Stop hemorrhage and gangrene
The Russians didn`t protect the bard
Died, he was about thirty years old

DECEMBRISTS

They were going to manifest for money
The aristocrats have dared them
In St. Petersburg for a constitution
They would ask loudly

Tsar Alexander called the army
Blood poured on December grasses
200 insurgents had to give
To the Tsar their evidencies in details

He listened of that personally
He was a progressive man himself
But he didn`t forgive them until death
Almost 30 years of hard labor

None of them could move from Czyta
But they could take away their wives
One of them even brought there
From France girl – a fiancée

He paid for services to soldiers
And they often wasted their time
Some have loved Siberia
Made a lot of plans, discoveries

It didn`t turn out bad on Decembrists
That they wandered where for so long
Siberia is feeding Russia to this day
Coal and gold they have from there

TOŁSTOY

The world loves grandfather for the novels
Psychological considerations
What Natasza and Count Peter
Had in their minds during the war

Grandfather described us about the Masons
The French, the army of Kutuzow
“War and Peace” is a classic
Mr. Tołstoj was a great writer

He spent time in Yasnaya Polyana
Away from the hustle and bustle
He was a little angry at his offspring
That they were so caught up in the salons…

In his old age grandfather had strange ideas
Left your wife and children
Founded the Christian sect
He is cursed for schism to this day

He was the count. It was supposed
To be an eccentric in every inch
He also remained in pictures like that
With a huge beard and in slippers

CZECHOW

Czechow was well educated
He could devote himself to medicine
However, he chose the writing profession
He did, I admit, very bravely

I liked like him in Taganrog
And I visited his shop
I also was on the island of Sakhalin
Still I was walking along his tracks

Among the very funny novels
Many are simply sarcastic
He issued a report from Sakhalin
Surprisingly depressing

He was only 40 years old
He knew he would not pull long
Tuberculosis got him terrible
But of this he “Chose a hard labor”

The Tsar did not forgive him this book
But abolished the penal servitude
Czechow would soon died in Crimea
Because he earned for his rest

ROXOLANA

On the route of King Alexander
Stood the city of Samarkand
As four years he battles was fighting
Between Syr and Amu-Daria

As a trophy he took a wife
This wedding gave him victory
Because many clans considered
As an honor, he was their relative…

He went with his wife into the fight for India
There he died rather unproductive
Someone claims that he was gay
Well, that he died without an injury

ALSZA

One of Master Muhammad`s wives
The only one with whom he had offspring
He had a dear daughter Fatima
I don`t know if the Prophet also had sons?

He was married four times
All women from “good families”
The prophet was building a coalition
He had 30 thousand soldiers

They dressed in pilgrims` outfits
Mecca could not stop them
However, when they entered
Prepared a blood bath for the all city dwellers

This is a known fact, no one denies
The Prophet did not despise politics
He also knew business well
But chose religion

Maybe this was not the goal
This syncretic philosophy
Some poem, but not a “bible”
The Book of the Koran shocks us

Jesus warned: They will come
Who dress themselves in sheep`s clothing
That they will take refuge in the “sanctuary”
Islam has become a Trojan horse

NAWOJA

Who has in hate and
Scorn poor people
He is unworthy to be called a man
That expressed Mr. Nawoja

MIŁOSZ

“If you hate a simple man
Then you go drown or hang yourself”
Czesław Miłosz once dedicated
This sentence to communists

It is a paraphrase or a scam
I don`t have a mind and memory
That`s what`s left in my mind
From those old poems of Miłosz

“Valley of Issa” is great
I wrote to the notebook
Long fragments of these mystical
Child`s cool adventures in Lithuania

It was only unfortunate to cut off
The witch`s head, aspen peg
Embedded in the heart
Where do you come from these ideas, Mr. Miłosz?

Maybe this is the new version of “Forefathers Eve”?
I admit, Dracula is not so scary
After these Miłosz`s adventures
On the pages of his diary

ŻEROMSKI

This writer`s mum is buried in Mława
I accidentally found a monument
There is a small zinc plate
Maybe it`s been renewed now

Cemetery in Wólka in the suburbs
Many Gypsies live in Wólka
Why did Mr. Stefan leave
His mum so far away?

Thank You for Cezary
Many thanks for the glass houses
Mom liked your book
So I also like you a little bit

OLD MAN HENRYK

Apparently the legionaries entered
To the Sienkiewicz`s estate
The old man was very ill
And he didn`t greet any guests

He had legionaries for rascals
For some Austrian spies
He died without knowing anything
That they brought us independence

SKŁODOWSKA ON THE BENCH

Maria Curie is popular
Thanks to her bench a statue
Yes, she looks very nice
As if she left the house for a moment

JONIEC

A priest who invented the parish sports event
He died in such a beautiful company
That hardly anyone knew
Who was more important on the airliner…

There were actors and bishops
Two presidents also went
Professional soldiers there
And very nice stewardesses

I am crying for You, Father Joniec
Of them he is the best known for me
He created not only this parade
He opened the door for Poles

Those who were cursed and despised
Grandsons, great-grand heroes
Who stayed there on the border
Their fate would be unknown today

Thanks to Joniec hundreds of people
Admit to Polish character today
Thousands of people have met
And respected Poland

SŁOWACKI

One day Mr. Mickiewic met Juliusz
Though he avoided him
They were quite different people
Although they both have the title of bards

Mr. Juliusz reminded us
Of the figure great Beniowski
They argued in Paris for priority
Over the hearts of emigrants

The pirate Beniowski reconciled them
A brave escapee from Kamchatka
In Russia named him August
Or too a Count from Poland

Poem about the Pope the Slav
Did the rest in the old dispute
They both had visions of Poland
And visions of the world without a colony

KRASIŃSKI

Krasiński and Norwid
Are still waiting to be discovered
In their poems a current that beats
Strikes like a thunderbolt – increases life

Trenches of the Trinity is a mystery
A lot of puzzles at Norwid
John Paul II liked very much
And because of this he brought us closer

I respect him for the story
Who describes the bridge and the sail
What seemed to be an obstacle
Suddenly was happened a great gate

SKARGA

Father Skarga admonished the powerful people
Of their abandonment, the crisis of the State
The fall of faith, morality
It worth rebuking this always

That his sermons were listened
In public and in the church
This makes him important for the gallery
Of Poles to the fate not indifferent

Get to know what you can change
Feel willing to work
You have to suffer what is more than strength
Also ask God for full clarity

WUJEK

Father Wujek translated the Bible to us
Psalms are sung to this day
Morning Prayer, Vespers were thrown away
Because we now have television

WŁODKOWIC

Paul your speech gave a flick
Conceited Crusaders at the Synod
That it is not worth converting by force
Lord Jesus never did that

The first and only time in history
Our were talking about something loud
The powerful order has lost in this speech
Its face, while Poles…

Slowly regained their strength and recovered
The lands taken away by the Order
At this Synod the Bishop of Kiev
Only once was a Cardinal

REJ

We are not geese, Rej said
A scholar Mr. a great Protestant…
After the Swedish Deluge his principles
Went to a second plan completely

KOCHANOWSKI

Mr. Kochanowski was a Parish Priest
For some time in the town of Zwoleń
How did it happen that he married
And that he had a beloved child…

Someone explains that he was a deacon
And that he was seeking a dispensation
For me this is still a mysterious
Event in history