Yehuda Amichai Time Poems

  • 1.
    The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
    and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
    with four dead and eleven wounded.
    And around these, in a larger circle
    ...
  • 2.
    A man doesn't have time in his life
    to have time for everything.
    He doesn't have seasons enough to have
    a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes
    ...
  • 3.
    A man doesn't have time in his life
    to have time for everything.
    He doesn't have seasons enough to have
    a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes
    ...
  • 4.
    If I forget thee, Jerusalem,
    Then let my right be forgotten.
    Let my right be forgotten, and my left remember.
    Let my left remember, and your right close
    ...
  • 5.
    On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery,
    a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs,
    abandoned and forgotten. Neither the sound of prayer
    nor the voice of lamentation is heard there
    ...
  • 6.
    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,
    ...
  • 7.
    Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,
    Latin writing, from west to east.
    Languages are like cats:
    You must not stroke their hair the wrong way.
    ...
  • 8.
    The end was quick and bitter.
    Slow and sweet was the time between us,
    slow and sweet were the nights
    when my hands did not touch one another in despair but in the love
    ...
Total 8 Time Poems by Yehuda Amichai

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