Yehuda Amichai Night Poems

  • 1.
    Near the wall of a house painted
    to look like stone,
    I saw visions of God.

    ...
  • 2.
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    Mr. Beringer, whose son
    fell at the Canal that strangers dug
    so ships could cross the desert,
    ...
  • 3.
    The little park planted in memory of a boy
    who fell in the war begins
    to resemble him
    as he was twenty eight years ago.
    ...
  • 4.
    All night the army came up from Gilgal
    To get to the killing field, and that's all.
    In the ground, warf and woof, lay the dead.
    I want to die in My own bed.
    ...
  • 5.
    Do not accept these rains that come too late.
    Better to linger. Make your pain
    An image of the desert. Say it's said
    And do not look to the west. Refuse
    ...
  • 6.
    You mustn't show weakness
    and you've got to have a tan.
    But sometimes I feel like the thin veils
    of Jewish women who faint
    ...
  • 7.
    I have become very hairy all over my body.
    I'm afraid they'll start hunting me because of my fur.

    My multicolored shirt has no meaning of love --
    ...
  • 8.
    A night drive to Ein Yahav in the Arava Desert,
    a drive in the rain. Yes, in the rain.
    There I met people who grow date palms,
    there I saw tamarisk trees and risk trees,
    ...
  • 9.
    Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
    the grief of all your losses to their grief,
    even of a woman that has left you. Mix
    sorrow with sorrow, like time-saving history,
    ...
Total 9 Night Poems by Yehuda Amichai

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