Zbigniew Herbert White Poems

  • 1.
    There are those who grow
    gardens in their heads
    paths lead from their hair
    to sunny and white cities
    ...
  • 2.
    Cup your hands to scoop up sleep
    as you would draw a grain of water
    and the forest will come: a green cloud
    a birch trunk like a chord of light
    ...
  • 3.
    to Laika


    So first the faithful dog will go
    ...
  • 4.
    รข??for perfidious protectors

    I was playing in the street
    no one paid attention to me
    ...
  • 5.
    Those who sailed at dawn
    but will never return
    left their trace on a wave--

    ...
  • 6.
    In my sleep it rips through
    my meagre skin
    throws off the red bandage of the flesh
    and goes strolling through the room
    ...
  • 7.
    This will be a night in deep snow
    which has the power to muffle steps
    in deep shadow transforming
    bodies to two puddles of darkness
    ...
  • 8.
    Lord
    Thank you for creating the world beautiful and of such variety
    And also for allowing me in your inexhaustible goodness
    To visit places which were not the scene of my daily torments
    ...
  • 9.
    I would like to describe the simplest emotion
    joy or sadness
    but not as others do
    reaching for shafts of rain or sun
    ...
Total 9 White Poems by Zbigniew Herbert

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