In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls,
I walk from one epoch to another without a memory
to guide me. The prophets over there are sharing
the history of the holy . . . ascending to heaven
and returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love
and peace are holy and are coming to town.
I was walking down a slope and thinking to myself: How
do the narrators disagree over what light said about a stone?
Is it from a dimly lit stone that wars flare up?
I walk in my sleep. I stare in my sleep. I see
no one behind me. I see no one ahead of me.
All this light is for me. I walk. I become lighter. I fly
then I become another. Transfigured. Words
sprout like grass from Isaiah’s messenger
mouth: “If you don’t believe you won’t believe.”
I walk as if I were another. And my wound a white
biblical rose. And my hands like two doves
on the cross hovering and carrying the earth.
I don’t walk, I fly, I become another,
transfigured. No place and no time. So who am I?
I am no I in ascension’s presence. But I
think to myself: Alone, the prophet Mohammad
spoke classical Arabic. “And then what?”
Then what? A woman soldier shouted:
Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you?
I said: You killed me . . . and I forgot, like you, to die.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Model For The Laureate by William Butler Yeats
- The Letters poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Tithonus
- A Confession To A Friend In Trouble by Thomas Hardy
- Sonnet 07
- At the Sea-Side by Robert Louis Stevenson
- My Heart Screams by Roberto Cocina
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season by William Cowper
- In the Night poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Яков Полонский – Песня циганки
- The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin
- Василий Жуковский – К Нине (О Нина, о Нина)
- Wish by W. S. Merwin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Здравствуй, “Юность”
- Stravinsky’s Three Pieces poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).