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Veritas sequitur . . .
In the small beauty of the forest
The wild deer bedding down—
That they are there!
Their eyes
Effortless, the soft lips
Nuzzle and the alien small teeth
Tear at the grass
T…
Contributor:
George Oppen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1965
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The rinsed fences dry themselves in the wind.
The kneaded black earth turns softer under my feet.
Soaked soil, tousled and wanton wind,
What more can I want from you today?
It seems to me that I’ve…
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Peretz Markish
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Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them: Speak to the Israelite people thus:
These are the creatures that you may eat from among all the land animals: any animal that has true hoofs, with…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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He was the last. Truly the last.
Such yellowness was bitter and blinding
Like the sun’s tear shattered on stone.
That was his true color.
And how easily he climbed, and how high.
Certainly, climbing…
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Pavel Friedman
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Terezin, Czechoslovakia (Terezin, Czech Republic)
Date:
1942
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The word of the Lord came to me: O mortal, propound a riddle and relate an allegory to the House of Israel. Say: Thus said the Lord God: The great eagle with the great wings and the long pinions,
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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To the right and left, just sand and sand,
yellow desert without a path.
A caravan passes, moving silently,
like a dream there, so strange.
The tinkling of bells rises and falls rhythmically.
Cam…
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Jacob Fichman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1913
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My restlessness is of a wolf, and of a bear my rest,
Riot shouts in me, and boredom listens.
I am not what I want, I am not what I think,
I am the magician and I’m the magic-trick.
I am an ancient…
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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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With you, it is not impossible to define
creatures and things with the simplicity
of the fish whose scales streak the sea with blue and gold,
Or of the sea itself that swells with the gracefulness of…
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César Tiempo
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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My heart is with your dews, homeland,
At night, above fields of nettles
And to the scent of cypresses and wet thistle
A hidden wing shall I spread out.
Soft sand-cradles are your roads
Spread out…
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Esther Raab
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Cairo, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1923
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[ . . . ] 2. When you stroll along the riverbank, you find an entire plain filled with reeds and bulrushes, all of which are standing erect, one adjacent to the other, and none of them…
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Menachem Mendel Lefin
Places:
Satanów, Russian Empire (Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1808