Tag: poverty

  • Landscapes

    On an evening twilight corner / flames arise with thousand eyes / and the sky blue and blueness / the wandering Romani wildness / the moon

  • My Synagogue

    My “shul” is my poor home / the yard, the streets of the city; / the streets surrounding were like stone tablets / like stone tablets marked with blood

  • Don’t Cry Child

    Don’t cry child / autumn will not live long in our land / he is like a poor man who is blind / the wind leads him by his hand

  • He and I

    Every evening we meet on a busy street / as he scurries along like a beggar along walls / and his eyes carry sorrow / and heavy it weighs in his silent hands

  • I Had a Home

    Once I had a home, a warm safe place / a bit of furnishings like poor people have / securely fastened roots of a tree / I had tied to my poverty