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
- OFF-LIMITS by Satish Verma
- On the Beach at Night, Alone. by Walt Whitman
- One Night as I did Wander by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: On Tam The Chapman:
- Вергилий – Скопа
- Федор Сологуб – Скоро солнце встанет
- Teddy Bear
- Channel Crossing by Sylvia Plath
- On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History by William Wordsworth
- The Light By The Barn by William Stafford
- Владимир Маяковский – Стих как бы шофера
- Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox by Robert Burns
- She Looks by Mac McGovern
- A Song In Storm by Rudyard Kipling
- Ballade Of The Bookworm poem – Andrew Lang poems
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Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).