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Subject: MIDDLE EAST - CONFLICTS Matches Found: 266 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` *, by YONA WALLACH Poem Source First Line: A man accumulates memories %like ants in the summer months Last Line: That evaded us completely in his song Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts 71 A.D., by MEIR WIESELTIER Poem Source First Line: Son, don't join them: they're sand-blinded slit-throats Last Line: Our law is life: don't die by it, but live Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ACRID MEMORY, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: At the train station a rabid crowd Last Line: And not just for a fleeting moment was I purified Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AFTER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had been looking at an idol in a glass case Last Line: There is absence, unreadable Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AFTER TWENTY YEARS, by FADWA TUQAN Poem Source First Line: Here the foot prints stop Last Line: Give her then the glass rings %and the blue bracelets Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ALL OVER REHAVIA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And all the children %have gone back to school Subject(s): Arabs; Europe; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ALL THINGS NOT CONSIDERED, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot stitch the breath Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Death; Arab-israeli Conflict; Dead, The AND HOW MY BROTHER IS CAIN, by AZRIEL KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: Those who walked to weep %those who walked to write Last Line: And there came a fire consuming the silence Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts AND THE MOTHER'S FACE IN THE SCALES, by TUVIA RUEBNER Poem Source First Line: And if this time it's oh well the neighbor's son Last Line: Who's no longer a mother and is faceless in the scales? Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Mothers AND THEN YOU WERE PEELING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our luggage unopened %at the door Subject(s): Arabs; Hearts; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AND THOU SHALT TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO THY CHILDREN, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: I am teaching my son to play soccer Last Line: As we remember zion Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AND TODAY IS A HOLIDAY, by VARDA GINOSSAR Poem Source First Line: And today is a holiday, but %'shoot only is shot at' Last Line: Plucked, drifting with the wind Subject(s): Holidays; Middle East - Conflicts AND YOU ON MY BIRTHDAY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Prayer %on a grain of rice Subject(s): Arabs; Birthdays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ANGEL, by PINCHAS SADEH Poem Source First Line: Death rides a horse in the sky Last Line: Death rides a horse in the sky Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: HULEIKAT -- THE THIRD POEM ABOUT DICKY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these hills, even the towers of oil wells Last Line: Was once an open palm and fingers Subject(s): Death; Middle East - Conflicts; Dead, The; Arab-israeli Conflict ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: HULEIKAT -- THE THIRD POEM ABOUT DICKY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these hills, even the towers of oil wells Last Line: Was once an open palm and fingers Subject(s): Death; Middle East - Conflicts ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: RUHAMA, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this wadi, we camped in the days of the war Last Line: No one may enter it Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: TEL GATH, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I brought my children to the mound Last Line: And forgive me for the things I didn't do Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: TEL GATH, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I brought my children to the mound Last Line: Fleeting like this springtime, eternal like it too Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: THE SHORE OF ASHKELON, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, at the shore of askhelon, we reached the end of memory Last Line: To be alone in his death Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: WHAT DID I LEARN IN THE WARS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did I learn in the wars Last Line: The white of clouds and the expanse of sky blue / and endless stars Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: WHAT DID I LEARN IN THE WARS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did I learn in the wars Last Line: And the stars that have no end Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ANOTHER SONG OF ABSALOM, by NATHAN YONATHAN Poem Source First Line: Cunning as a woman, lovely as a snake, shy as an idol Last Line: I wanted, my little fool, only you, absalom Subject(s): Absalom; Middle East - Conflicts APPLE OF PAIN, by VARDA GINOSSAR Poem Source First Line: First speech is the speech %of love. Let me make of it Last Line: With need. Last %speech: silence Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts APRIL THE TWENTIETH, 1948, by DAHLIA KAVEH Poem Source First Line: My mother in the morning Last Line: In the paper the death %of her son Subject(s): Death - Children; Middle East - Conflicts ARMY RESERVE SERVICE AT MA'ALEH YA'IR, by SHLOMO AVAYOU Poem Source First Line: From the mounatins of moab, the sun Last Line: For you will fill all ibex land Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts AROUND THE WATER BY THE BIRDS, by YAIR HURWITZ Poem Source First Line: Around the water by the birds %the city of ararat convalesces Last Line: Convalesces, which feels like death Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ARRIVING AT THE ISLAND, by ALON ALTARAS Poem Source First Line: And from the very beginning, I would Last Line: On whom you depend for the journey home Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ASPARAGUS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw the asparagus stand up in one bunch Last Line: Have to watch where we're going or simply make do Subject(s): Arabs; Asparagus; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Vegetables AT AN AUDITORIUM OF A LOCAL UNIVERSITY, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: At an auditorium of a local university Last Line: To breathe in hebrew? Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AUTUMN 1982, by ILAN SCHOENFELD Poem Source First Line: Autumn. %from the cedar's snowy boughs Last Line: This blood, too, will the heavy snowflakes whiten Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts AUTUMNAL THOUGHTS, by NATHAN YONATHAN Poem Source First Line: By memory, the pearl returns to its place in the deep Last Line: Write my name on the margin of the old lament? Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts BAD DREAM, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: A wild night Last Line: I'm taking you to jerusalem Variant Title(s): Bad Dream, Part 1 Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To measure a fence Subject(s): Arabs; Depression, Mental; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine BEHIND FRONT LINES, by YEHUDIT KAFFRI Poem Source First Line: She has changed her way of life Last Line: When the war broke out Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts BEHIND FRONT LINES, by YEHUDIT KAFFRI Poem Source First Line: She has changed her way of life Last Line: At the outbreak %of war Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts BETWEEN HERMON AND THE SALT SEA, by GIORA LESHEM Poem Source First Line: Bewteen hermon and the salt sea (the dead sea Last Line: Toward the lowest spot on earth %and the dead sea isn't full Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts BETWEEN WARS, by TANYA HADAR Poem Source First Line: Between wars wild grass was growing there Last Line: Dark marmots, making their way %between bricks Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts BIRD'S-EYE VIEW, by RAFI WEICHERT Poem Source First Line: A cloud of dust soars over the hills Last Line: For cover, and survives Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts BLACK INK BLACK PAINT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Whiter %and more strange Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Paintings And Painters; Palestine BLACKOUT, by ITTAMAR YAOZ-KEST Poem Source First Line: Blindly from the window %the woman stares at the street Last Line: Know of it's now %or years before Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts BLOOD HEIFER, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: He took one step, %then a few steps more Last Line: And scatter its ashes in the river Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts BORN BETWEEN ALERTS, by GIORA LESHEM Poem Source First Line: I was born in a shelter %between alerts. Since then Last Line: I would spare none Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts CAFE, by MORDECHAI GELDMAN Poem Source First Line: At cafe milano which isn't %in milano, a palestinian waiter Last Line: From a balcony, a tangle of roses Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts CARGO MOVING TO GAZA (1988), by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree donated years back struggles Subject(s): Arabs; Israel (state); Life; Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict CEDAR TREES HOTEL, METULA, by MAYA BEJERANO Poem Source First Line: By a mulberry tree and a fig tree Last Line: And at the right moment made love as well Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts CHARTREUSE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the french alps near grenoble the carthusian monks Last Line: The airport falls, if it isn't the life we expected, something close Subject(s): Arabs; Herbs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins CHRONICLE: 1, by ISRAEL PINCAS Poem Source First Line: Nothing had been %heard as yet. The girls were screaming Last Line: Cars, crowded the wedding halls, went %abroad Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts CHRONICLE: 2, by ISRAEL PINCAS Poem Source First Line: Please everyone be calm. On the agenda Last Line: The phrase 'in the foreseeable future' %has been debated Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts CHRONICLE: 3, by ISRAEL PINCAS Poem Source First Line: At the same time, in shu'afat or ashkelon Last Line: To be on the hike to napoleon's hill Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts CITY LEVITATES, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm back %in the unmade bed Subject(s): Arabs; Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine CLUSTERS, by MARTIN OTT Poem Source First Line: In the harried stores of baghdad Last Line: Before the last petal has fallen Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Soldiers; War CORPORAL RABINOVITCH'S CORPSE, by ASSIA MARGULIS Poem Source First Line: Corporal rabinovitch's corpse %has been laid to eternal rest' Last Line: In tel aviv and just can't get a lift Subject(s): Corpses; Middle East - Conflicts DAILY RITUAL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The world ali says %and dreams Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Arabs; Boxing And Boxers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets DATA PROCESSING 34, by MAYA BEJERANO Poem Source First Line: On my trip to the jewel of midnight -- a festive din Last Line: The fire of breathing. To you from us Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts DEAD SOLDIER'S BETROTHED, by SHULAMIT APFEL Poem Source First Line: In a cemetery for the fallen %of the first world war, a muffled Last Line: Before the war before my life Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts DEATH OF RACHEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All day she stirs the soup Last Line: She stirs the dust into dust Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine DEFINITIONS, by AVNER TREININ Poem Source First Line: Child: he who creates %heaven and earth Last Line: And then it turns over Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 1, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The time of my life tells me Last Line: Like a shadow in a forest %of skulls Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 2, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: I'm standing now Last Line: I snip to stitch my way to darkness, %breath by breath Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 3, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Everything I ever said of life and death Last Line: Of the stone that pillows my head Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 4, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Do I contradict myself? Absolutely Last Line: Do I contradict myself? Absolutely Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 5, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The moon arms itself Last Line: With a cap of stone %to battle its shadows Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 6, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The door of my house is sealed Last Line: I choke with gratitude, %but I cannot speak Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DROUGHT: 1. AUTUMN 1983, by DAN ARMON Poem Source First Line: Clouds, changing shapes. %unreadable riddles Last Line: The war in the north %may be delayed Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts DROUGHT: 2. WINTER 1984, by DAN ARMON Poem Source First Line: In the north %young men are killed Last Line: Becoming pure while looking %at the puddle Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts EACH ROSE, by ZELDA MISHKOVSKY Poem Source First Line: Each rose is an island %of the promised peace Last Line: A boat and go out %into a sea of flames Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts EACH WAR TOOK ME, by SHULAMIT APFEL Poem Source First Line: Each war took me %to another town Last Line: To my house %minus many limbs Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts EACH YEAR, by ASHER REICH Poem Source First Line: Each year has pulled me from the road in grief Last Line: His ordained end and who would not Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts EARTH POEM, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: A dull evening in a run-down village Last Line: And they searched his prison %but could only see themselves in chains Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ELEGY FOR THE TIME AT HAND, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Chanting of banishment Last Line: My soul has left me. %I have no home Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts EMPEROR OF CHINA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the boy who played with a rope Last Line: Wrings on the rag and wipes them again Subject(s): Arabs; Courts And Courtiers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ENCLOSED SEAS, by AVNER TREININ Poem Source First Line: The great salt lake in utah, %the dead sea in israel Last Line: Of tears will drain through %the nose's channels Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts EUCALYPTUS, by DAN ARMON Poem Source First Line: The machine gun lies on its gut by a heap of dry leaves Last Line: Or maybe an apc Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts EVERY DAY ON THE RADIO, by ITTAMAR YAOZ-KEST Poem Source First Line: Every day on the radio, every day Last Line: What did you say?' %winter Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts EVIL HAS BEEN COMMITTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We will have to fall back on Subject(s): Arabs; Evil; Fasts And Feasts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Yom Kippur FACE LOST IN THE WILDERNESS, by FADWA TUQAN Poem Source First Line: Do not fill postcards with memories Last Line: My life continues Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts FACE LOST IN THE WILDERNESS, by FADWA TUQAN Poem Source First Line: Do not fill postcards with memories Last Line: My life continues Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts FEARS: 1, by RA'AYA HARNIK Poem Source First Line: We spent another spring in peace Last Line: Tomorrow night, the siren will wail. %I hear war Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts FEARS: 2, by RA'AYA HARNIK Poem Source First Line: At night, aircraft fly through jerusalem's skies Last Line: And the graves Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts FEARS: 3, by RA'AYA HARNIK Poem Source First Line: I'm beset by fears, %as if though fog Last Line: Who, who this time will be %your son, your only son, isaac? Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts FEBRUARY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The park hangs on to what keeps growing Last Line: To the end feel like %becoming? Subject(s): Arabs; February; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Winter FIG TREE, by MIRIAM OREN Poem Source First Line: I'm lost on the shortcut to the fig tree Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts FLOOR KEEPS TURNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She looks at her watch Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Time FOR MOHAMMED ZEID OF GAZA, AGE 15, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no stray bullet, sirs Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Death - Children; Gaza, Palestine; Arab-israeli Conflict; Death - Babies FORGETTING' HE SAID, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And what we had wanted %to forget Subject(s): Arabs; Aviation And Aviators; Hotels; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Travel FROM THIS DISTANCE THE TOMBSTONES LOOK LIKE A FLIGHT OF STORKS, by RONNY SOMECK Poem Source First Line: From this distance the tombstones look like a flight Last Line: And now I'm the only one who can remember it Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts FURLOUGH, by REUVEN BEN-YOSEF Poem Source First Line: I phone from dovrat that I was coming; you set out Last Line: And in the morning I returned to the front Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts GOOD EYE, by YONA WALLACH Poem Source First Line: A deer on a boulder stands Last Line: There's no beauty here %only great terror. Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts HARMATAN, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday also has its leaves, newspapers Last Line: Of the earth ceaselessly emptying itself Subject(s): Europe; Immigrants; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Protestantism; Racism; Refugees; Sahara Desert; Solitude; U.s. - Foreign Population HAUNTING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all she remembered at the end Last Line: At my [or, your] daughter with her eyes? Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Daughters; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine HE'LL TAKE YOU WITH HIM, by AMIR GILBOA Poem Source First Line: He'll take you with him far away and there Last Line: And you'll rise up and love Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts HERE, FAR AWAY, by ANADAD ELDAN Poem Source First Line: Here, far away, where war's sickness breeds Last Line: We dress in glad colors to greet our new sister with peace Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts HEY JEEP, HEY JEEP, FR. POEMS IN ANOTHER LAND, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: Eight kids in an army jeep Last Line: But thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself Variant Title(s): Hey Jeep, Hey Jee Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine HIS MOTHER, by HAYIM GOURI Poem Source First Line: Following deborah's song, long ago Last Line: But she died, shortly after her son's demise Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts HOT SEASON, by MOSHE DOR Poem Source First Line: In my land when the hot season %comes, it goes on and on until Last Line: Courses through whitehot bodies Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts HOUSES THAT WERE MINE, by ALON ALTARAS Poem Source First Line: Where I live now, one hears Last Line: Who is terrified, even %of his mother's footfall Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts HOVERING AT A LOW ALTITUDE, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: I am not here Last Line: When that hand closes over her hair, grasping it %without a shred of pity Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Middle East - Conflicts HUBRIS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loom is computerized Last Line: Where will they hide him %when the romans come? Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices HULEIKAT--THE THIRD POEM ABOUT DICKY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these hills even the oil rigs Last Line: Was once the palm of an open hand, and fingers Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts I HAVE WITNESSED THE MASSACRE, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: I have witnessed the massacre Last Line: And carnations grew Subject(s): Human Rights; Massacres; Middle East - Conflicts I LIVE IN HER, by AZRIEL KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: From a land of expansiveness %the perpetual cycle of her seasons Last Line: Seeds of enchantment inside a purple grape Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine I WON'T SELL HIS LOVE, by FADWA TUQAN Poem Source First Line: What chance Last Line: How sweet you are Subject(s): Love; Middle East - Conflicts I'M INSIDE, by YISRAEL ELIRAZ Poem Source First Line: Hard is a line %and bitter Last Line: Now says that the land has changed %and we inside it Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts I'M NARROWING MY BOUNDARIES, by RA'AYA HARNIK Poem Source Last Line: Soon just %you Variant Title(s): I'm Narrowing My Boundarie Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts I'VE NO WORDS, by MEIR WIESELTIER Poem Source First Line: I've no words to say over the graves Last Line: Smacking your head against the wall Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts IBRAHIM, by NITZA KANN Poem Source First Line: Regularly, twice a week, %and going on years now, since the six day war Last Line: For years, ever since the six day war Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts IDENTITY CARD, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: Put it on record %I am an arab Last Line: Beware, beware of my hunger %and of my anger Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Middle East - Conflicts IF ONLY PEOPLE COULD SEE US, by PERETZ-DROR BANAI Poem Source First Line: If only people could see us walking here Last Line: The beauty of all we've seen %will live and flourish Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts IMMERSION, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound is not human Last Line: Light from the wooden grille at the window %arranges its petals on the stone Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Drowning; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine IN THE BEGINNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he wakes, he turns Last Line: Who she is, or %what he lost Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nature; Palestine; Relationships ISLANDS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm as a good wife Last Line: Astonished lovers whispering, %what happens next? Subject(s): Arabs; Islands; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sea IT WILL BE A MONOTONOUS POEM, by ELI ALON Poem Source First Line: It will be a monotonous poem: %the happy all look like each other Last Line: Its seed, its code, its secret Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts JOB'S WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She has to pity him after what happened Last Line: At the unrelenting sky Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine JUMP, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays. Sun-narrowed eyes. My father Last Line: What I want most is on the other Subject(s): Arabs; Boats; Fathers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LADDERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the angels were too old Last Line: We could count on a ram in the thicket %or stop the knife Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LAME VETERAN, by ARYE SIVAN Poem Source First Line: The lame veteran gazes at the flocks Last Line: Finds a resting place for the sole of her foot Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts LAST FLING OF SUNDOWN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It is always that simple Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LAWNS OF DELHI, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawns of the mogul gardens Last Line: As they crouched over themselves Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Lawns; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women LEBANON 1982, by MICHAEL MAYO Poem Source First Line: Echo-chamber of mind reverberates with death toll Subject(s): Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts LEGGING BEHING, by RAMI DITZANI Poem Source First Line: A stork has one leg. %a ladder, two Last Line: It gets harder and harder %to overtake those cuties Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts LIGHT POEM OF MUD AND CULTURE, by MOSHE BEN-SHAUL Poem Source First Line: Although I love baudelaire %I love the name hilwa more Last Line: I love the name hilwa more Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts LISTENING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You told it softly, not looking at my face Last Line: Listen with my body to the real world %the simple hunger of the child Subject(s): Arabs; Hunger; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LITTLE LATE MARRIAGE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was never young with you Last Line: At least we seem to be going %in the same direction Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LITTLE LOVE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Just enough to %keep going Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LOOKING TOWARDS JERUSALEM, by NA'IM ARAIDI Poem Source First Line: Maybe we should gather %all the boulders Last Line: We shall call it jerusalem Subject(s): Jerusalem; Middle East - Conflicts LOVE OF THE COUNTRY, by YITZHAK LAOR Poem Source First Line: And isn't anything beautiful %in this country? You ask me, and I reply Last Line: On the slope of mount carmel Subject(s): Israel; Middle East - Conflicts LULLABY, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: They'll sing to you Last Line: For their outcry rose for many nights Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MAN GOING TO WAR, by YEHIEL HAZAK Poem Source First Line: The man who goes to war and goes back to war and Last Line: Back to Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MAN WALKS IN THE LAND, by MIRIAM OREN Poem Source First Line: A man who walks in the land Last Line: And he has no escape %from such consolations Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MEMORY OF THREE DEAD, by YITZHAK LAOR Poem Source First Line: Oded of jerusalem, who served in the army with me Last Line: Remembers life Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MERCIFUL PEOPLE, by SHIN SHIFRA Poem Source First Line: What do friends ask %when the boy leaves a leg Last Line: Merciful people %sons of merciful people Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MIGRATING BIRDS, by ELISHA PORAT Poem Source First Line: Over the lighthouse of stella maris -- %two hundred pelicans in flight Last Line: The landing platform %of rambam, on sea Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MILITARY FUNERAL AT HIGH NOON: 1, by T. CARMI Poem Source First Line: Glaring moons move on the road Last Line: Barrels aimed at heaven Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MILITARY FUNERAL AT HIGH NOON: 2, by T. CARMI Poem Source First Line: A new military cemetery, %full of fragrance Last Line: Immigrants in the land of the living Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MILITARY FUNERAL AT HIGH NOON: 3, by T. CARMI Poem Source First Line: Get moving. %calculate their ages Last Line: Alive -- in the world of the dead. %get out Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MILITARY FUNERAL AT HIGH NOON: 4, by T. CARMI Poem Source First Line: Pale moons move in a row Last Line: Every man to his doorpost %and his mailbox Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MILITARY FUNERAL AT HIGH NOON: 5, by T. CARMI Poem Source First Line: The new cemetery %is full of fragrance Last Line: The barrels aim at heaven Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MIRAGE OF SAND: GATES OF THE CITY, by ABBA KOVNER Poem Source First Line: Who set fire to the city %and did not wake the city? Last Line: And the shepherd does not know its name Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MIRROR FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: A coffin bearing the face of a boy Last Line: This is the twentieth century Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MOHAMMED, by MORDECHAI GELDMAN Poem Source First Line: We were looking at a fresco by the village painter Last Line: Of ishmael. And I told him about isaac Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MOTHER, by ASSIA MARGULIS Poem Source First Line: My boy %resembles a young kibbutz Last Line: To enlist him in the army Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts MY BROTHER WAS SILENT, by AMIR GILBOA Poem Source First Line: My brother came back from the field Last Line: And his blood cried out of the ground Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts NEGOTIATION, by CHAMUTAL BAR-YOSEF Poem Source First Line: Negotiation means %both giving and taking Last Line: That begins and ends always in blood Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts NEW TRANSLATION OF TSVETAYEVA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She couldn't get in Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941) NIGHT OF SCUDS, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: When the scuds fell on tel aviv Last Line: But then I ordered a hamburger with lots of mustard Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine NO RAIN YET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cries %countthedead %countthedead Subject(s): Arabs; Birds; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine NOTE ON THE MEDITERRANEAN, by KIM JONGGIL Poem Source First Line: Plastic bombs would explode on and off in paris Last Line: Again next day the sea was dissolving into jade green Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts OFF THE WALDHEIM, by EDWARD DORN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The papal audience is about as low as it gets Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; United Nations; Arab-israeli Conflict OFF THE WALDHEIM, by EDWARD DORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The papal audience is about as low as it gets Last Line: Was cozying up to the palestinians at the u.N Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; United Nations OLD POEM AND TWELVE THOUGHTS ABOUT A DOVE, by CHAMUTAL BAR-YOSEF Poem Source First Line: Oh yes, %your eyelids once fluttered like a girl's Last Line: A ruffled dove, with its open beak, moves the tim plate closer Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ON CLEAR NIGHTS I WATCH, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the %threshold Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Night; Palestine; Prayer ON REFLECTION, by RAMI DITZANI Poem Source First Line: In the middle of the night %when things seem kind of grim Last Line: Women will always love me %from the knees up Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ON THE DYING YOUNG MAN: 1, by SHIN SHIFRA Poem Source First Line: Scent of jasmine and citrus trees Last Line: He'll die %in the summer Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ON THE DYING YOUNG MAN: 2, by SHIN SHIFRA Poem Source First Line: Inanna, satiated with his loving %in the grove in the shade of the apple Last Line: Of the blossoms in my nostrils, but they Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ON THE DYING YOUNG MAN: 3, by SHIN SHIFRA Poem Source First Line: She says I %dream of what will be Last Line: That inanna sings for %the dead dumuzi Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ON THE WALL NEXT TO MY WINDOW, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who %will make art of this Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Arabs; Bible; Home; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ON THE WAY TO 'AYN HAROD, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: On the way to 'ayn harod Last Line: Guess I just swalled it Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ON WISHES, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: Don't say to me Last Line: Each dawn has a date with a rebel Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Revolutions ON WISHES, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: Don't say to me Last Line: Every dawn has its appointment with a rebel Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ONLY THE WAR, by TZIPPI SHAHRUR Poem Source First Line: You and I -- we won't live forever Last Line: Only the war. Only the survivors %and shame Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts ORDER OF THE DAY, by T. CARMI Poem Source First Line: Keep the children happy! %keep the children happy! Last Line: Keep the children happy! %keep the children happy! Variant Title(s): The Author's Apology: 2. Order Of The Da Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts OUR BLOOD IS THE PETROL OF THE WORLD, by ASHER REICH Poem Source First Line: The day spun out. We've gained time Last Line: Our blood is the petrol of the world Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts OUR NEIGHBOR IN CHARGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rub out %with my bare feet Subject(s): Arabs; Hebrew Literature; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Neighbors; Palestine PALESTINIAN, by ELI ALON Poem Source First Line: He returned to the deserted hill Last Line: Where have they all gone to?' Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts PALLOR IN THE FACE, by RONNY SOMECK Poem Source First Line: A hospital gown bears instructions, like a filled Last Line: Whiteness of the face Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts PALM DOVES: 1, by ZERUBAVEL GILEAD Poem Source First Line: This year, again, the palm dove returns Last Line: The bitter magic of the chosen land? Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts PALM DOVES: 2, by ZERUBAVEL GILEAD Poem Source First Line: The pair of palm doves still fly Last Line: Woe! Alas, my darlings! %let me mourn you! Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts PEACE, by ELLA BAT-TZION Poem Source First Line: Peace is a sea Last Line: Will carry us far Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts PEACE POEM AFTER A UGARITIC INCRIPTION, by ELI NETZER Poem Source First Line: Call war off the land Last Line: Withold your rod sheath your sword Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts PINES ON OUR STREET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Split %on the fault line Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Writing And Writers PIYYUT FOR ROSH HASHANA, by HAYIM GOURI Poem Source First Line: For this is not the road against which stand enemy lines, or Last Line: The curtains billow and the doors move on their hinges Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts PLACES I'M NOT ALLOWED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If only %I peed like them Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War POETRY, BLOOD AND CYANIDE, by CYRUS MAHAN Poem Source First Line: I will fight you Last Line: Graces together and wish to be married during the new year Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Revolutions PRAYER FOR PEACE, by ZERUBAVEL GILEAD Poem Source First Line: Wine clouds with a margin of gold Last Line: Of my village slowly ripening Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts QUICK TAKE, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: In a poem you can't see Last Line: Green card is now Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine RACHEL'S CHILDREN ARE PLAYING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And spit the shells %on the floor Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine RAIN IS READY TO FALL, by EYTAN EYTAN Poem Source First Line: The rain is ready to fall %on the mountains of the deep Last Line: A rain the earth can only accept Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts RAINS, by SHLOMO TAN'EE Poem Source First Line: Rains on the holy land Last Line: Sucked down to its dark abysses Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts RECOGNITION, by MIRIAM TEICHNER Poem Text First Line: So-you have 'recognized' the jew? Last Line: "since, wisely, now you ""recognize"" the jew." Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict REQUESTS, by ESTHER RAAB Poem Source First Line: I want beautiful trees -- %and not wars! Last Line: Of babies' garments signaling tranquility %on clotheslines Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts RESPONSIBILITY, by MOSHE DOR Poem Source First Line: At my feet a female dog lies as if in an old english Last Line: As they approach the barricades Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts RIPPLE OF VOICES AROUND THE BED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And stares %at the doctor Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Hospitals; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nurses; Palestine; Sickness RUINS, by YAAKOV BESSER Poem Source First Line: To build from scratch. That is Last Line: Maybe then we can stand our ground Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SANCTUM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On top of a hill near the lebanese border Last Line: And trust it to bear our weight %a little longer Subject(s): Arabs; Cemeteries; Cities; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 1, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Beringer, whose son %fell at the canal that strangers dug Last Line: That drift away Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 2, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child he would mash his potatoes Last Line: His body goes on being bathed and purified %forever Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 3, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tomb of the unknown soldier Last Line: By the glutton of hears. Amen Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 4, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came upon an old zoology textbook, %brehm, volume ii, birds Last Line: Oh my friend, %red-breasted Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 5, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dicky was hit. %like the water tower at yad mordechai Last Line: A little to the north, near huleikat Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 6, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is all of this %sorrow? I don't know Last Line: Or where it comes from Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 7, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memorial day for the war-dead: go tack on Last Line: Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding' Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SHE WAS IN JERUSALEM, by NA'IM ARAIDI Poem Source First Line: She was in jerusalem, %agreed to visit the wailing wall Last Line: Jerusalem, %I'll come back, soon Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SHEET OF FOIL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First day of spring on the hill of anemones, masses of scarlet Last Line: Not to disturb her fingers at my back, steadying the wings Subject(s): Arabs; Childhood Memories; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SHELL-FLOWERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the turkeys you raise each year Last Line: How far it would carry you Subject(s): Arabs; Family Life; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women SHOT, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upside-down, he still %waits, and in his ears there is still Last Line: And did not want to be his Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SIGN ON THE NEW BRIDGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: (one place at least) %to heal Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Storms; Wind SIREN'S WAIL, by RAFI WEICHERT Poem Source First Line: The siren's wail rises up %and the whole world freezes, even Last Line: A shadow ascending steep stairs Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SIRHAN DRINKS HIS COFFEE IN THE CAFETERIA, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: They arrive %our doors are the sea Last Line: Then kills it when it takes a final shape Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SMALL NOUNS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could tell you Last Line: Whatever it %was Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SNAKESKIN, by YAAKOV BESSER Poem Source First Line: The snake sloughs its skin %to the sound of summer flutes Last Line: Tracks of death %on the desert's palm Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SNOW BINDS JERUSALEM TOGETHER, by DAHLIA KAVEH Poem Source Last Line: Together with my ancestors Subject(s): Jerusalem; Middle East - Conflicts SO MANY ZEROS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too many zeros %ending with smoke Subject(s): Arabs; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; New Year; Palestine SO WE GOT OUT OF LEBANON, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His screech his %portentous scold %iyew iyew Subject(s): Arabs; Exiles; Jerusalem; Jews; Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SOLDIER, by MOSHE BEN-SHAUL Poem Source First Line: Through the door of his tent a soldier sees an army of sand Last Line: Dark silting over the flap of his tent Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SOLDIER, by ESTHER RAAB Poem Source First Line: He doesn't know that drops of rain %count moments Last Line: And in the day green %leaves fall in his haor Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SOLDIER WEPT ON THE RADIO, by TZIPPI SHAHRUR Poem Source First Line: On the radio a soldier was weeping Last Line: Into a microphone that was still alive Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SOMETIME, by YEHUDIT KAFFRI Poem Source First Line: Sometime there will be %a great love Last Line: All words of hate and war Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SONG OF BECOMING, by FADWA TUQAN Poem Source First Line: They're only boys Last Line: They grew, grew and became %larger than all poetry Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SONG OF THE DISABLED EX-SERVICEMEN, by SHLOMO ZAMIR Poem Source First Line: Every two of us have three eyes, %every five, eight hands Last Line: Every tow of us have three shoes, %every five, eight gloves Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SONG OF THE SAVAGES, by SHLOMO ZAMIR Poem Source First Line: We are the ones whose fathers Last Line: Their beaks, on the battlefield Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SPREAD YOUR TABERNACLE, by ANADAD ELDAN Poem Source First Line: Spread your tabernacle over us Last Line: Your self to sheltering us with shade in hot desert wind Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts STEPS IN THE NIGHT, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: Always, %we hear at night approaching steps Last Line: Do not kill me %with approaching steps Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SUMMER, by TUVIA RUEBNER Poem Source First Line: Summer calls for thorn fires Last Line: In this death-deranged and blood-dreaming land Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SUMMER RESORT, JULY '85: 1, by SABINA MESSEG Poem Source First Line: Today my daughter %learned about the atom Last Line: To fill the space god almost found Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SUMMER RESORT, JULY '85: 2, by SABINA MESSEG Poem Source First Line: Everyday I climb the mountain: %abandoned gardens Last Line: Its ancient passage %from the sea to the sea Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SUMMER RESORT, JULY '85: 3, by SABINA MESSEG Poem Source First Line: You tell me of holocaust past %and holocaust future Last Line: Under the atching eye of the god of fear Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts SUMMER RESORT, JULY '85: 4, by SABINA MESSEG Poem Source First Line: With a pink rubber hose %and a glance at the kinneret meeting the sky Last Line: In the open heart of a mountain that knows god Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts TALE OF PEACEFUL DAYS, by SHLOMO TAN'EE Poem Source First Line: Oiled rifles %lie in the darkness of depots Last Line: Fall and molting, %winter and sleep Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts TASTE OF SALT AND RECKONING, by PERETZ-DROR BANAI Poem Source First Line: Wafting in waves from the sea Last Line: And only the rains of lead burst forth with other prophecies Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts TEL AVIV BEACH, WINTER '74, by RAQUEL CHALFI Poem Source First Line: A crocodile-cloud has gulped down %a cloud-cloud Last Line: He was an angel %he was an angel Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts TERROR, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream of the jews Subject(s): Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Mysticism - Judaism; Terrorism; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict THAT AUTUMN, by ILAN SCHOENFELD Poem Source First Line: That autumn ten were strung up high in the branches Last Line: Goes to gather her linen from the line Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts THE SMALL VASES FROM HEBRON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tip their mouths open to the sky Last Line: And the long sorrow of the color red. Subject(s): Arabs; Arabs - Women; Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict THEY ARE ALL WE ARE ALL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over puget sound %as it always was Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Old Age; Palestine THEY'VE ROLLED THE PARCHMENT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As an old sweater %pulled over my head Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Rosh Hashanah THIRTY YEARS SINCE I WANTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Am I looking in this tunnel %for my dreams Subject(s): Arabs; Dreams; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine THREE COLORS, by ELISHA PORAT Poem Source First Line: On memorial day I make my way up Last Line: Into the encroaching shadow of stones Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts THREE DECADES ALREADY, by YEHIEL HAZAK Poem Source First Line: And three decades have passed already Last Line: And the salt in my nose -- not me not me Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts TO LIVE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, by ARYE SIVAN Poem Source First Line: To be cocked like a rifle, a hand Last Line: As was the case with abraham on mount moriah Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts TRANSLATION: 1. OUTLET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And what is the next move Last Line: Looking for the right %word Variant Title(s): Outle Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe Variant Title(s): Win Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind TRANSLATION: 3. FIGURE OUT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have to be able to Last Line: You don't invent someone %who already is Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting; Voices TRANSLATION: 4. LIKELY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We never hear them Last Line: How noiseless the noise of the likely Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Silence TRANSLATION: 5. PUT ASIDE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bitterness %the swamp of it Last Line: Benevolent whispers %angels' wings Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRANSLATION: 6. NIBBLING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What would you do with an avocado %in your bed Last Line: Butter melting on a warm roll Subject(s): Arabs; Food And Eating; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRANSLATION: 7. HUMAN VESSEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cape of no-hope Last Line: Holding each other %when the wave breaks Variant Title(s): Human Vesse Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Togetherness TREE OF FIRE, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The tree by the river Last Line: My people %have died as fires %die--without a trace Subject(s): Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts TROUBLE WITH ANGER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Because I couldn't %hate %them Subject(s): Anger; Arabs; Emotions; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRUCE, by ZELDA MISHKOVSKY Poem Source First Line: A simple motion of the hand %cancels the torture, a motion Last Line: In a dark cave, peace %opened its eyes Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts TWENTY YEARS IN THE VALLEY, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And afterwards? I don't know Last Line: No. %too much Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts UNFINISHED POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We live on a holy mountain Last Line: Twice a week to increase %our bone density Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets UNGARETTI'S UMBRELLA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Claude says, 'this is Last Line: We still need a shelter %over our heads Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ungaretti, Giuspeppe (1888-1970) UNSTOPPABLE FURY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And options %still %open Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Traffic VICTIM NUMBER 48, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: They found in his chest a lamp of roses and a moon Last Line: Thus did the moon die Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts VICTORY PARADE, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: There's a victory parade on broadway for the Last Line: A helpless iraqi mother bears the corpse of her dead baby Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine VINTAGE '49, by MIRA MEIR Poem Source First Line: The wagons heavy with red fruit crushed Last Line: And the juice dripping down Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts VOICES FROM THE HILL, by ABBA KOVNER Poem Source First Line: This is herbert fatatah! %who set the fire in kharatiya and hata? Last Line: The enemy walks in kharatiya and hata Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts WAKING IN BED IN THE SHRILL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Before dawn now %shivering Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices WAR AND THE DOG WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE, by YIGAL BEN-ARYEH Poem Source First Line: The psychic women %men whose dogs commit suicide Last Line: Louder in his ears. %oh! Oh! Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts WARS PASSED HERE, by YISRAEL ELIRAZ Poem Source First Line: The wars passed here and didn't shake Last Line: Come has already come has already gone Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts WEATHERMAN TELLS US, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To know where %they're going Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Weather WHAT WANTS TO CONTINUE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sometimes the door remains bolted Subject(s): Arabs; Grief; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine WHO IS A JEW AND WHAT KIND OF A JEW?, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: An american jew dies and he leaves no children Last Line: How she loved you, she never left you for a second Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine WHO IS A JEW AND WHAT KIND OF A JEW?: 1. THE STORY IS TOLD:, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: An american jew dies and he leaves no children Last Line: An ashkenazi jew, then we will gladly bury him! Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine WHO IS A JEW AND WHAT KIND OF A JEW?: 2. GETTING TO ... CONVERSATION, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: Tell me, you're from israel? Last Line: Destroyed the jews? Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine WHO IS A JEW AND WHAT KIND OF A JEW?: 3. WHEN I LEFT, by SAMI SHALOM CHETRIT Poem Source First Line: It was only when I left that I remembered Last Line: How she loved you, she never left you for a second Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine WILDPEACE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that of a cease-fire Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict WILDPEACE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that of a cease-fire Last Line: Suddenly, because the field %needs it [or, must have it]: wildpeace Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts WIND GRINDS, by EYTAN EYTAN Poem Source First Line: The wind grinds bones to dust %in the courtyard of death Last Line: Set your face once more towards rising Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts YAEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She must be an angel, waiting outside Last Line: She knows what she has to do Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War YITZHAK AND AMALYA, by ISRAEL PINCAS Poem Source First Line: It hurt us terribly. %six thousand young men fell Last Line: His girlfriend 'for life' %amalya Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts YOU CAN FEEL THE RISING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: At the center of the house Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Thought YOU HAVE TO ABANDON JERUSALEM, by SHLOMO AVAYOU Poem Source First Line: Beneath the walls of jerusalem Last Line: Bitterness settles in under my bed %cursing and bewailing the night Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts YOU HAVE TO BEGIN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Still felt or is it %(not less) %remembered Subject(s): Arabs; Brides; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine |
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