The Song Remains – דאָס ליד איז געבליבן

Tag: snow

  • Alone

    You never brought me white roses / yet the ground is white-bestrewn with them. / The entire earth is redolent of spring blossoms, / early spring blossoming on snow.

  • On the White Hills

    Smoke, a white smoke, floats on the white hills, / a whiteness that flies, scatters the snows. / No one comes now to pluck white roses, / so they fly into the air, whirl and twirl.

  • A Phrase About Man in an Old Holy Book

    Though Springtime, there was rain and snow, / and above the columns of night / grief clambered like a cat and terrorized all the roads. / I sat alone, leafing through an old holy book.

  • My Guest

    On the street / the trodden snow lies. / Its countenance is pale / and it cries.

  • My Mama’s Snow

    It may be a mistake / but my mama’s snow / was simply white / and not like the poetic take: / green, lilac, or violet bright.

  • From My Childhood

    Little things snowy white, / round as tiny stars / and sweet as sweet can be, / like saccharine pearls for tea.

  • Winter Morning

    So good on a wintry blue dawn / to sweetly stretch out / one’s tired limbs / and feel the tender embrace / of the bed.

  • A December Eve

    Like flowing metal, the December sky. / Now and then a last skinny leaf falls / from the naked poplars / juxtaposed …

  • 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

  • Night Songs

    The night – a hungry dark dog – / as licked the red blood of the west / and quietly laid down on the earth / three crows stand on my roof and curse; / one pecks at my heart, / the heart has bloodied my way now dogs lick at my ways