Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PROENSA, by ISAAC BEN ABRAHAM GORNI


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First Line: In provence gorni's got a lot of enemies
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


In Provence Gorni's got a lot of enemies
who put down my songs as well.
Yet I know I am the poet,
the only one of my generation.
When I sing mountains dance
valleys & forests rejoice.
I take up my harp & happy
Zion's daughters form a circle.
If I want I can wake up bones
& make stones run like the Jordan.

. . . . . . . . .

When I die girls will lament me everyday
& merchants make big deals in world-markets
for bags of dirt from my grave, out of my coffin's
planks others will carve amulets -- special for barren women.
Someone will string harps & fiddles
with my hair & the tunes will come, O
lovely tunes sans strum or bow of human hand.
Even my clothes -- revered -- anything that's touched my skin.
But grind my bones to dust,
I won't promote idolatry.


Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org




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