צעדיך במדרגות תמיד בתוכי,
לא מתקרבים ולא מתרחקים, כמו פעימות לב.
יהודה עמיחי
Have always stayed in me,
never coming nearer
and never going away, like heartbeats.
Yehuda Amichai , Translated by Ted Hughes
You come to me quiet as rain not yet fallen
Poem by Brian Patten
When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.
When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.
From 'The Mad Farmer Poems' by Wendell Berry
במקום שאת אוהבת
צריכים לפנות את הרהיטים מן החדר
את כל האילנות וההרים והימים
מן העולם כי צר
יהודה עמיחי מתוך ׳שירים לאשה׳
Wherever you love furnitures must be removed from the room
Trees, mountains, seas-all of it gone from the narrow world
Yehuda Amichai from ‘songs for a woman’.
so shall the sea us equally together toss and shake
From Ovid's Metamorphosis
Leah Goldberg
אין לך זכות חנינה בעולם,
הכל הוכרע.
חלומותיך טובעים בים
ואת אומרת שירה.
לאה גולדברג.
Detail From
"you must never sleep under a Magnolia"
in Alice Oswald’s Falling Awake
when the flower begins to smell
as if it’s roots have reached
the layer of thirst upon the
unsealed jar of Joy.
From ”you must never sleep under a Magnolia”
in Alice Oswald’s Falling Awake.
Certain conditions are needed For flying
The bird told me.....Having wings is not enough
If you don’t know to turn Fear into wind.
From ‘The Rabbit Hole
By Avital Harari
צריך תנאים כדי לעוף
אמרה לי הציפור....
לא מספיק שיש לך כנפיים
אם אינך יודעת להפוך
את הפחד לרוח.
מתוך ׳מחילת הארנב׳
של אביטל הררי
There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave.
A longing wells up in its throat
like a blossom as it breathes slowly.
What does the world
mean to you if you can’t trust it
to go on shining when you’re not there?............
From ‘October’
by Mary Oliver
...no more than a flash of free-will
until the clouds close their options and the whole
melancholy air surrenders to pure fear and Falls...
From Falling Awake by Alice Oswald .
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is a devastation.e
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they're given wings.
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is a devastation.e
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they're given wings.
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi