Cosmopolitics



In the heart of the urban fortress of staid social correctness, at the hub of the world, on the solid ground of rocketing high - rise triumphant opportunism, latent insanity penetrates those who enjoy its fruits. Awakening among wrinkled pillows of reality, I think I saw, through the prism of a mirage, all those years in the homeland, an echo of my childhood in post - mandatory Haifa; words like “King's Way” and "Check Post"* rise from submerged deep waters of past life experiences. A new serenity flickers and spreads within me: Rules and obligations of the heart rise up through a shattered existential floor; my soul wriggles free as the nameless burden of the black-ice glacier of loss slowly melts; I yearn for a routine far from post-traumatic mental emergencies forged in childhood; convalescing from a rootless journey I try, with spirit and imagination, to spin a day worth living to the end.

About this poem

Being raised in a holocaust survivors family in a newly established country, which was closed from the outside world during many years, I wrote this poem during a relocation to London, UK.

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Submitted by on September 05, 2021

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Nurit Kahana

Nurit Kahana is a published, award winning feminist poet from Haifa, Israel. Since childhood, reading the classics and writing have always formed a large part of her life. The miraculous process of creating fiction out of reality, poetry and daily life - is one of her main interests. Nurit has published three poetry books in Hebrew, the first of which was sponsored by the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts and the third, "LONDONITY"', was published in 2015 by the Carmel- Emda Hadasha publishing House. Nurit worked as a journalist in the Israeli national press, ("Haaretz") and as a spokesperson. The first- ever published articles in the Israeli national press about violence against women and sexual harassment were written by her, already during the seventies. She publishes articles on-line. She holds an MA in Political Science from Haifa University, Israel. More about Nurit’s poetry – on “POETIC” website: https://www.poetic.co.il more…

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