OTHER SNAPSHOTS FROM WOJTYŁA`S LIFE

PART FIVE

SOLVAY

Hard work boils on Solvay
Karol has several brochures in his pocket
Others were looking for respite in their conversations
He felt free, running away in thought

Suddenly brilliant memory came to him
He half-joked to journalists
In the evening a German van hit him
He was hospitalized for some time

Broken head and concussion
This is usually a reason for amnesia
Sometimes, however, the opposite is true
This time the accident refreshed the memory…

RAPSODY

Suddenly opened in Karol`s head
Creative spaces, doubly generous
He worked differently than others in the underground
Some said he probably chickened out

However, he thought ahead
Apparently he felt the potential of the Spirit
He defeated the enemy in a different way
His rifle: increased creativity

In Warsaw were secret sets
And flying universities
Kotlarczyk with Wojtyła and the Theatre of Rapsody
Destroys to this day Great Empires!

SALESIANS

In the neighborhood with the Salesians
He lived modestly close to the parish
He came back from work, didn`t find his father
Karol Elder gave up his ghost

A one tailor was like a father to him
He also had sympathy among artists
One idea still bothered his head
Karol went away to the seminary

NIEGOWICIE

After special studies give work to priests
Somewhere in the Curia or in the seminary
Especially when you study in Rome
In this case it was different

Supposedly Karol to Niegowicie
Walked on foot, a little in the cart
Little is known, how he did it there
After a few years Krakow was waiting for him

UNCLE

Cardinal Sapieha had his plans
God strangely through his hands
Managed from a distance very sensibly
The career of a talented lecturer

He could feel perhaps that he is the successor
He had seen God`s spark in him from a long time
He wasn`t looking at himself at all
He shared his life and youth with others…

When he had lakes in his head
He confused the vigilance of special services
He was like a contemporary to students
They said “uncle” because a little older

PADRE PIO

Among a group of friends Wojtyla`s
There was also a young married girl
A good doctor, a child mother
Cancer was slowly destroying her body

Wojtyla wrote to Father Pio
Even in her case he showed up at him
There is a legend that “On Peter`s election”
The extraordinary Saint revealed to Wojtyła

SACRA

News of the episcopate came to him suddenly
In some monastery he was lying cross
He probably considered his habit
How to make from privilege a task

There were many opportunities
“Gentlemen sad” didn`t give him peace
They called to each other for stupid conversations
Alternating flattery and threats

NOWA HUTA

“I will not take the cross off my wall”
Pilgrimage youth sang
Karol was supposed to fight for the cross
In this long war near Krakow

Like in Norwid`s story of a son
Who was worried about seeing the ship
The mast seemed too big
To swim under a small bridge

He hesitated a few times, probably
However, he entrusted Mary firmly
He had in his arms “Totus Tuus”
Oh Lady Mather:” Whole for You”

And so not being a builder
Stubborn humanist created
The largest church in those times
Something like the Ark or Peter`s boat

CRUSADE

He never stopped caring for young people
Helped in this Father Franciszek Blachnicki
Krościenko was an oasis model
A crusade of “new life” without swords

COUNCIL

Noticed “Fathers of the Church”
Father Wojtyła at the Council
From Krakow was a young and clever bishop
As a cardinal he returned to Poland

PEREGRINATION

Meanwhile, it lasted a millennium
Great Primate`s novena
She was an inspiration for parishioners
The Image of Mary “went to Poland”

The Icon for some time was stolen
In a secret place they arrested
Didn`t invite Pope Paul
However, was in Poland Pope Karol

Was used “Swank” from capital
To the harsh words of Primate Stefan
So it seemed that Karol is soft
That two cardinals can be quarreled

ANDRZEJ JAWIEŃ

The cardinal didn`t stop writing poems
But he put them diligently to the desk
He invented a few nicknames
To sell your thoughts discreetly

Didn`t stop believe like in the old days
In what Juliusz Słowacki also believed
In the action of the most powerful force
“King the Spirit” in the People`s Republic of Poland was his Lord

CONCLAVE

AnnuntioVobis gandium magnum
Habemus Papam, Reverendissimum
We have a Pope, You will pleased
The Reverend …Karol Wojtyła

Roman people liked the Pope from Poland
He became close to them through his modesty
“If I make a mistake, correct me”
He admitted that he spoke Italian poorly

INGRESS

On the day of Ingress already he spoke
Many languages, probably fifty
It was nice, but the most beautiful scene
Was when he hugged his compatriot

The world knew the exploits of Wyszyński
Everyone knew about the torments
Through which these two from Poland went through
And what triumph awaited them for this

In Karol`s life a whole sea of didactic
Moments and gestures
You can learn from his example
That “God`s works do not know defeats”

Faustina spoke in her writings
That if Poland would be faithful
Doesn`t have to be great anymore
That a fire would light up from her

“Fire to the Earth I Came to bring
And how I want it to burn”
It was not given in Israel
A spark is burning somewhere near Krakow!

This poem was translated by an amateur volunteer