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Yehuda Amichai

Orsorum

Lifer
Has anyone here read his poetry? I've read his poetry on and off over the past few years, but just now diving back in with some gusto. And it's good. 🙂
 
What Kind of a Person

"What kind of a person are you," I heard them say to me.
I'm a person with a complex plumbing of the soul,
Sophisticated instruments of feeling and a system
Of controlled memory at the end of the twentieth century,
But with an old body from ancient times
And with a God even older than my body.

I'm a person for the surface of the earth.
Low places, caves and wells
Frighten me. Mountain peaks
And tall buildings scare me.
I'm not like an inserted fork,
Not a cutting knife, not a stuck spoon.

I'm not flat and sly
Like a spatula creeping up from below.
At most I am a heavy and clumsy pestle
Mashing good and bad together
For a little taste
And a little fragrance.

Arrows do not direct me. I conduct
My business carefully and quietly
Like a long will that began to be written
The moment I was born.

Now I stand at the side of the street
Weary, leaning on a parking meter.
I can stand here for nothing, free.

I'm not a car, I'm a person,
A man-god, a god-man
Whose days are numbered. Hallelujah.
 
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Originally posted by: Orsorum
25 views and no responses. Either this guy is really boring to you guys or no one knows who he is. 🙁
*ding ding ding*

😉

That's probably why people were clicking the thread, to find out who this person is.
 
Originally posted by: Platypus
pics of weightloss?

Eh, haven't been that disciplined about the picture taking, and I'm hovering now between 235 and 240. Need to start walking every morning and coming into work a little later.
 
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