The weak breeze whispers nothing
the water screams sublime.
His feet shift, teeter-totter
deep breaths, stand back, it’s time.
Toes untouch the overpass
soon he’s water-bound.
Eyes locked shut but peek to see
the view from halfway down.
... – by Lenny Turteltaub | 45 Views added 1 month ago
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We were sick of home,
Home sick.
That mask around our ear
Hung itself into the year.
Once we stepped into our home,
We found ourselves gasping, tear-
ing it off like a bandage,
Like something that gauzed
The great gape of our mouth. ... – by Amanda Gorman | 708 Views added 10 months ago
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הִנֵּה יוֹשֵׁב פֹּה, הִנֵּהוּ.
עַל סַפְסַל הַנֶּאֱשָׁמִים בְּכִסְאֶהוּ,
אָדוֹלְף אַיְכְמָן – שְׁמוֹ זֶהוּ.
וּמִתְּהוֹם עָבָר עוֹלִים
שֵׁשֶׁת הַמִּילְיוֹנִים
וְאֶל שׁוֹפְטֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל הֵם פּוֹנִים:
שׁוֹפְטֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, שׁוֹפְטֵינוּ,
... – by אסתר גלזר | 46 Views added 1 year ago
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ייע... – by ייע | 65 Views added 1 year ago
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Hello there you
Yes dear, I’m talking to you
Can we make it... – by Yigal Ben Efraim | 239 Views added 2 years ago
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May this be the day
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Withered, we come to weather,
Torn, we come to tend,
Battered, we come to better.
Tethered by this year of yearning,
We are learning
That though we weren't ready for this,
We... – by Amanda Gorman | 11,102 Views added 2 years ago
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My heart is in the east,
and I am in the distant west.
How can I taste what I eat,
and how can it be sweet?
How can I fulfill by vows and oaths,
as long as Zion is in the chains of Edom,
and I am in the binds of the... – by Judah Halevi | 249 Views added 2 years ago
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At the dawn I seek Thee,
Rock and refuge tried,
In due service speak Thee
Morn and eventide.
‘Neath Thy greatness shrinking,
Stand I sore afraid,
All my secret thinking
Bare before Thee laid.
Little to Thy glory
Heart or... – by Rabbi Solomon ibn Gabirol | 63 Views added 2 years ago
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I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
... – by T. S. Eliot | 5,038 Views added 2 years ago
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There was a man of double deed,
Who sowed his garden full of seed;
When the seed began to grow,
'Twas like a garden full of snow;
When the snow began to melt,
'Twas like a ship without a belt;
When the ship began to sail,
'Twas like a bird without a... – by Anonymous | 153 Views added 3 years ago
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A heavy apple draws a full branch down with summer,
so it will know where to fall, an open hand grows up from the ground.
Like so, my soul, you bow ever lower, dumber,
loaded heavy with juice and time and fermenting beams of... – by Abraham Sutzkever | 77 Views added 3 years ago
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I’m thankful that we’re both alive at the same time,
for if the chasm of an instant were to separate us,
a moan would divide both joy and hope with a knife
and both hearts would not beat in my... – by Abraham Sutzkever | 70 Views added 3 years ago
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And this is the ballad of my life: dipping bread
in salt at a banquet for my unseen guests from afar.
And when they are hailed on by clod of earth after clod of earth,
to meet them between long tree-lined streets once... – by Abraham Sutzkever | 52 Views added 3 years ago
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What lovely aftermath
is painted in your dust.
You were led through the flaming
core of the earth,
through its stony shell,
webs of farewell in the transient... – by Nelly Sachs | 469 Views added 5 years ago
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עוד חוזר הניגון שזנחת לשווא
והדרך עודנה נפקחת לאורך
וענן בשמיו ואילן בגשמיו
מצפים עוד לך, עובר אורח
והרוח תקום ובטיסת נדנדות
יעברו הברקים מעליך
וכבשה ואיילת תהיינה עדות
שליטפת אותן והוספת... – by Nathan Alterman | 200 Views added 5 years ago
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The little station Treblinka
On the line Tluszcz-Warsaw
From the Warsaw -East station
Railways leave
And go straight...
And the trip lasts sometimes
Five hours and three quarters
And sometimes lasts
The whole life until... – by Wladyslaw Szlengel | 259 Views added 7 years ago
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האי הצף, האי הבודד
בלי תמונות כאלו ..לא הייתי שורד...
כמה פסטורלי ורגוע להתבונן
באיים ייחודיים שהאדם מתכנן.
כמה מאמץ השקעה (ואיזה עלות!)
אך לבנות אי צף, בים? נשמע כמו שטות!
יש כל כך הרבה מקום בעולם
ואנשים שצפים בייאוש... – by המשורר, אי שם בים הפתוח | 136 Views added 9 years ago
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In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But... – by Dylan Thomas | 522 Views added 9 years ago
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Rockets concuss. Guns rattle off.
Dogs in a public square
feed on dead horses.
I don’t know, Jim, where you are.
When did you last see
birds? The winter sky in... – by Daniel Johnson | 87 Views added 9 years ago
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Calm as that moonbeam on the wall,
Sleep broods on baby's eyes;
Arms, hush'd and still, but pulsing quick,
Enfold him as he lies;
My brain is full of thronging thoughts,
Strange passions thrill my breast,
My heart aches with a load of love
That will... – by Ada Cambridge | 124 Views added 12 years ago
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Nightingales, a sigh, a whisper
In a shady nook
And the lullaby in silver
Of a lazy brook.
Light of night and midnight shadow
Falling from above
And the changing mood and magic
Of a face you... – by Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet | 145 Views added 12 years ago
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See those resplendent creatures, as they glide
O'er scarlet carpet, between footmen tall,
From sumptuous carriage to effulgent hall -
A dazzling vision in their pomp and pride!
See that choice supper - needless - cast aside -
Though worth a thousand... – by Ada Cambridge | 146 Views added 12 years ago
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