The Song Remains – דאָס ליד איז געבליבן

Tag: birds

  • With the Night

    With the night my silky dreams dissolved. / With the night my quiet singing stopped. / With the day, my poem arrived swimming / on the storm with a fierce echoing sound.

  • The Miser’s Place

    Between roads wildly overgrown, / contained by walls hunched from shame, / with hands tight-fisted as of stone / lives the miser of this place.

  • The Birch Tree

    The birch tree in the corner of my yard / trembles with every leaf ashamed / every branch longs for sun and dew / in the shade of big locked doors

  • Good

    Love have I for all that lives in song / Birds, women in blue hats / A tree, a street, a wall / All that is familiar and what’s not

  • Arrest

    Feigele, startled awake, bursts into tears seeing men yelling at Chaim, hearing how her mother weeps.

  • In the Middle of the Way

    From my hair rain is running / my cheeks are wet / come to muddy thresholds as a guest / am silent, about where and to whom