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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540374" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Temporary Poem Of My Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,<br>Latin writing, from west to east.<br>Languages are like cats:<br>You must not stroke their hair the wrong way.<br>The clouds come from the sea, the hot wind from the desert,<br>The trees bend in the wind,<br>And stones fly from all four winds,<br>Into all four winds. They throw stones,<br>Throw this land, one at the other,<br>But the land always falls back to the land.<br>They throw the land, want to get rid of it.<br>Its stones, its soil, but you can't get rid of it.<br>They throw stones, throw stones at me<br>In 1936, 1938, 1948, 1988,<br>Semites throw at Semites and anti-Semites at anti-Semites,<br>Evil men throw and just men throw,<br>Sinners throw and tempters throw,<br>Geologists throw and theologists throw,<br>Archaelogists throw and archhooligans throw,<br>Kidneys throw stones and gall bladders throw,<br>Head stones and forehead stones and the heart of a stone,<br>Stones shaped like a screaming mouth<br>And stones fitting your eyes<br>Like a pair of glasses,<br>The past throws stones at the future,<br>And all of them fall on the present.<br>Weeping stones and laughing gravel stones,<br>Even God in the Bible threw stones,<br>Even the Urim and Tumim were thrown<br>And got stuck in the beastplate of justice,<br>And Herod threw stones and what came out was a Temple.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the poem of stone sadness<br>Oh, the poem thrown on the stones<br>Oh, the poem of thrown stones.<br>Is there in this land<br>A stone that was never thrown<br>And never built and never overturned<br>And never uncovered and never discovered<br>And never screamed from a wall and never discarded by the builders<br>And never closed on top of a grave and never lay under lovers<br>And never turned into a cornerstone?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Please do not throw any more stones,<br>You are moving the land,<br>The holy, whole, open land,<br>You are moving it to the sea<br>And the sea doesn't want it<br>The sea says, not in me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Please throw little stones,<br>Throw snail fossils, throw gravel,<br>Justice or injustice from the quarries of Migdal Tsedek,<br>Throw soft stones, throw sweet clods,<br>Throw limestone, throw clay,<br>Throw sand of the seashore,<br>Throw dust of the desert, throw rust,<br>Throw soil, throw wind,<br>Throw air, throw nothing<br>Until your hands are weary<br>And the war is weary<br>And even peace will be weary and will be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yehuda+Amichai">Yehuda Amichai</a><div class=q>
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Latin writing, from west to east.
Languages are like cats:
You must not stroke their hair the wrong way.
The clouds come from the sea, the hot wind from the desert,
The trees bend in the wind..."></div>
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