Poems by Yehuda Amichai
Of Three Or Four In The Room
... Behind him, the words, wandering, without luggage, ...
Do Not Accept
... Everything will be as before: Abraham will again ...
Temporary Poem Of My Time
... And never screamed from a wall and never discarded by the builders ...
Try To Remember Some Details
... so that on the day of loss you'll be able to say: last seen ...
I Want To Die In My Own Bed
... Like slits in a tank, their eyes were uncanny, ...
Half The People In The World
... And where is my place between such well-matched halves, ...
A Jewish Cemetery In Germany
... of a kohen, his fingers splayed in a spasm of holiness and blessing, ...
Memorial Day For The War Dead
... Behind all this perhaps some great happiness is hiding ...
My Child Wafts Peace
... Promise us. * The traditional burial place in Hebron of Abraham ...
I Have Become Very Hairy
... Yet I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, ...
A Dog After Love
... Or at least Will bring me your stockings between his teeth ...
Love Of Jerusalem
... And those covered with leprosy, and spastics and those with twisted lips ...
The Little Park Planted
... The little park planted in memory of a boy ...
Wildpeace
... A peace without the big noise of beating swords into ploughshares, ...
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
... Let my right be forgotten, and my left remember ...
