If we were to look at the theme of lovers' love in traditional Polish songs, it seems like an immeasurable river, the sources of which – the more I explore them – seem even richer.
Just as it's a captivating topic in modern times, why should it have escaped the attention of our ancestors.
I will quote only a few of my favorite themes from folk songs here. From those dreamy ones, where, as in Raspberry thicket Leśmiana:
„It was stuffy from the raspberries you picked, whispering, And our whispers only quieted in their scent, When from the hand you offered me, I scooped with my lips The fruits, imbued with the scent of your body….
While there may not have been such a powerfully erotic metaphor in folklore before, the wonderful intertwining of ambiguity subtly betrayed the course of action of lovers, who were united in ecstasy by the sweet taste of raspberry juice. On the Polish-Lithuanian border, in the so-called Suwałki region, the Pogranicze choir from Szypliszki still performs this piece today:
„Let us go, Johnny, into darker valleys, There I shall gather redder raspberries...”
Jasia will let Marysia in for the night only with his basket of raspberries, asking with a beating heart if perhaps...
