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Before your shining, full eyes
How good it is to live;
Before their light every limb is taut
Like a eucalyptus after a storm are you:
Tired, strong and still moving in the wind
My head will reach to…
Contributor:
Esther Raab
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1922
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God no longer speaks
as he did in the days of the Bible,
he no longer shines in the firecloud
over our roof.
Adam and Eve have run into the depths of the garden
from God’s unveiled presence,
as we—we…
Contributor:
Yankev Fridman
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1960
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When our wild day is wiped like a tear
From cities and forest, from month and year,
Red Ridinghood walks on the road,
To pick a wild flower in the wood.
And following her is a duck and a cow,
Hobbl…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1938
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Asaf Ben-Zvi
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1989
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Every day when his mind was at ease,
Relieved of the need to tell us about the countries he’d seen,
He would raise his hands high above our heads,
Appealing on our behalf before the Almighty to let…
Contributor:
Moshe Sartel
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1967
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Not in vain did I vow to be faithful,
not in vain did I tag at your heels.
With the mole I struggled from darkness,
stubborn and under a spell.
You, grief of the nails on my fingers,
you, woe of my…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1940
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Going to his room one night,
he locked his door and by lamp-light
counted his money, counted his foes.
Then from the table of his heart
he struck off every name but one,
which would be there till…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1965
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Come next year we shall sit on the porch
Count the birds flying north.
Children on holiday will play catch
Between the house and the meadow.
You will see, you will yet see
How good it will be
In…
Contributor:
Ehud Manor
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1968
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God creates the universe in seven days. Soon after the job’s done, he throws Adam and Eve out of their place for disobeying orders. The couple…
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Zoo Eretz Zoo
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1975
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In winter, the rain beat down on the roof.
She said white was her favorite shade.
At hand he then gave her, his heart filled with joy,
A bunch of daffodils, fragrant and moist.
She laughed: “My dear…
Contributor:
Uri Assaf
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1963