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To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…
Contributor:
Solomon Mazal Tov
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
mid 16th Century
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It’s one in the morning. I’m writing this poem
in a train station.
What does poetry have to do with trains?
I came here unexpectedly
traveling the wrong way.
Telling the story is risky:
I was…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936
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For two minutes we gazed at each other
In curious silence.
When politeness nudged me in the shoulder,
I introduced myself:
A man, the crown of creation.
The grasshopper
Was not overwhelmed.
He kept…
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A. Leyeles
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
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A new world being made—one hears
In childhood that it has begun;
Then comes the passage of the years—
Is it not yet fully done?
The new world being made—always,
From childhood on—and on the day
The…
Contributor:
Avrom Reisen
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date unknown, 20th century
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Now, when my vision turns in on itself,
My shocked eyes open, all their members see
My heart has fallen like a mirror on
A stone and shatters, ringing, into splinters.
Certainly, not every shard is…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Date:
1943
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I am not I
when called to account—
plaster over, dumbly benched
the corrosive ardency
of blinkered identification.
To affirm nothing, a veil
of asymptotic bent,
prattling over-
tunes in the striated…
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Charles Bernstein
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1997
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I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted…
Contributor:
Saul Bellow
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1953
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He said: “Show me, I pray You, Your glory!”
Behold, wise men have declared,
Moreover, the proofs adduced by them have attested,
That the senses are illusory,
Mirages are legion,
Thoughts are…
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Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1842
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The alphabet doesn’t have enough letters, you say, to form the names of so many inexpressible feelings, unexpressed for lack of words, and I say to you that we don’t have enough life, that too much…
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Esther Seligson
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1973
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Monelle grew quiet and looked at me:
I came from the night, she said, and I shall return to the night. For I too am a young prostitute.
And Monelle said again:
I pity you, I pity you, my love.
Even…
Contributor:
Marcel Schwob
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1894