Note on Paul Celan,2010
Shalom Shalom Shalom Shulammite
Your ashes in wind death blown skull
Sing storms of justice and breeze of peace
In wells you hid your black milk of dawns
In spells of sky they burnt your fingers
Maestro Mefisto orchestra manifesto
Sought evil necklace around his neck
Too heavy for the soul to fly
Stone cut pearls of you ashen voice
Stone cut drawing of your powdered bones
Stone cut inscription your beauty glows
Shalom Shalom Shalom Shulemite
Bring peace on my soul Shalom
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Shalom Salaam
Lost am I in my memories of my forefathers' legacy
I am one of you you are one of me
why don't we set the people free
how I grieve to see fulfillment of prophecy
naive of me to think things could change
while man remain the same so war will be for me everyday
no peace no peace for the children of Israel
Gaza cries all the tears from her eyes
will there be no peace for the children of Palestine
shalom salaam shalom salaam
who will take the blame for the blood of my children
to who does vengeance belong to no one no one
we're dying from tanks and suicide bombs
the only answer is to live as one
and justice will come for my sons and just will come for my sons
shalom salaam shalom salaam
and I wonder why and I wonder who and I wonder what
is in the heart of you
and I wonder why and I wonder who and I wonder what
is in the heart of you
children are children no matter color or faith
and I wonder if history will teach us again
so war will be for me everyday
no peace no peace for the children of Israel
Gaza cries all the tears from her eyes
will there be no peace for the children of Palestine
and justice will come for my sons
shalom salaam shalom salaam
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Shalom
water cleanse my feet
as my father weeps
days turn to weeks
with a child left by a creek
answer may he one day seek
in the water my feet i dip
so water cleanse my feet
and in the mids of the beast
let my soul know that am not week
so if a tear runs down my cheek
as gold is splendid like an antique
may the bird song be silenced
so water please cleanse my feet
see me here, see me there
yes i try hear my cries
see me fall, see me rise
as you look in these eyes
the dead tell no lies
so shalom to shalom,
a nod to a nudge
the morning sky see the night sky
so good bye to say hi
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I Learned My Literature As Myself
I learned my Literature as myself-
Kafka was my soul
In the days of my early anxiety-
Joyce was my soul
Also in literary striving -
Wordsworth my soul in calm and love of nature-
Salinger my soul
Bellow my soul
Singer my soul
Soul after soul
But when I came to write
Near the end
After all the meaning
I and all the other souls together conspired
A voice perhaps my own?
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If There Is No Peace In Me
IF THERE IS NO PEACE IN ME
If there is no peace in me
If there is no calm
How dare I try
To write a poem?
Still by stopping and standing here now
The gentle breeze
The quiet greens and yellows of this park
Bring uneasy calm back to me.
And I write a few lines
By which I try
To justify
My problematic existence.
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Shalom
Your name is Shalom and you came for peace,
But the bombs around will not expose you to me;
For i really know what i need from you.
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My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.
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The Day Went By Without A Poem
The day went by without a poem-
The night was poem-less also
And then a month and then a year
My soul suddenly homeless.
The poems were gone
And I alone
Empty in my soul
I could not write
I could not feel
The universe was cold.
And now I wait
And dream and think
And hope a poem one day
Will come again
As dreams
I know to play..
But perhaps despite these faltering words
The poems
Forever gone
And I must live alone-
A poem-less man
Without a word
Silent as a stone.
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The Beauty Of The World Breaks Its Darkness Again And Again
The Beauty of the world breaks its Darkness again and again-
Who can make of the colors of the flowers
Anything less than the joy of the soul?
Beauty Beauty Beauty
Is everywhere-
And God teaches me always
Not to forget.
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I Walk In The Morning Light /peace In My Heart
I walk in the morning light
Peace in my heart
Calm in my soul-
But I have so many problems
Major worries-
Why now ‘Peace? ’
Morning light is only
For a certain time of day
It will go away soon
And the world will enter,
And then I can be troubled
And think and think again-
Now just for now
Let me be Quiet.
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I Lost The Calm Of My Poem and The Peace Of My Soul
I lost the calm of my poem and the peace of my soul
When I heard murderers would go free
And those who had deliberately killed women and children
Would torment yet again their victims’ families-
I lost the calm and the peace of my soul
When I learned that we had forsaken our principles of Justice
And given in to blackmail to ransom a single life -
I lost the calm of my poem and the peace of my soul
When I understand one can be too kind and too compassionate
And that those ‘kind to the cruel’ end up being ‘cruel to the kind’
I lost the calm of my poem and the peace of my soul
When I understood we as a people had ceased to be wise and courageous-
And given in to our own excessive sense of compassion and to the cruelty of the cruel.
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No Poem Can Say All We Are Inside
No poem can say all we are inside
There is so much given to our eyes
The Beauties of the world
Are truly for most of us indescribable-
I look out on the city of my life and love
How the morning light makes the yellow stone
Bright as hope
Simple and and clean as
An old man’s happiness.
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The Poem Then At The End Of The End
THIS POEM THEN AT THE END OF THE END
This poem then at the end of the end
When there are no more friends
And nothing is left to say
But only lonely I go my way
Because no one goes with us when we die
And no one holds our hand against the worms of the sky
And no one no one knows where our soul sighs
And whether God says hi or goodbye
And why oh why oh why do we die
But here in fear those we leave behind
Those who love and know what we at our best were
We make them cry when we die
And all we wish to stop and make never to be
We cannot
Because no one tells us how to forever not die
No one can
Alone alone alone to our end then
Alone alone alone to never be anymore here
Alone alone alone into the ground and under the stone
Alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone
Never to be here we with us on this earth in joy and love again.
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God Has Given Me So Much Inside
GOD HAS GIVEN ME SO MUCH
God has given me so much inside-
So much Beauty-
So much to be said and sung.
Why should I loving life and God
So much
Not have enough time
To say and sing all I have in me?
Why why should I die
And be dust
Long before I am done?
Why why should I die
Too soon?
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Aphorism And Poem (Definitions)
An Aphorism is sentence for the mind
A Poem sustenance for the soul-
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Black Is The Dark Of Night
BLACK IS THE DARK OF THE NIGHT
Black is the dark of night
Deep is the quiet and calm –
Waking before the world does
Brings a special peace –
I write these lines
And begin the day
When others still sleeping -
All the world is mine at peace
And when the morning light comes
I will be astonished by the beauty
Of God’s world.
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I walk with the sky in my soul
I WALK WITH THE SKY IN MY SOUL
I walk with the sky in my soul-
All this Beauty of the morning is mine-
God gives us everything
When we wake up.
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My Mind Is Not A Complex Poem
MY MIND IS NOT A COMPLEX POEM
My mind is not a complex poem
That makes a metaphor of rhyme-
Or understands the simple beat,
Of an imperfect right offline.
My mind is old and wandering
And trusts itself to carry on.
The poem it comes to turns to stone
And weighs upon a soul unsung.
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The Poems Are All I Have Now
THE POEMS ARE ALL I HAVE NOW
The poems are all I have now-
They are small
As my soul.
They tell what I am inside.
But do they have Beauty?
I write these words now
With the hope that they will be
Something
They probably are not.
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What World Have I Sought In My Poems Deeper Than Me?
WHAT WORLD HAVE I SOUGHT IN MY POEMS DEEPER THAN ME?
What world have I sought in my poems deeper than me?
Beauty beyond Belief
Love’s Essence-
More music than my lines tell-
Lovely lonely life
Does not have Beauty enough
To sing the sound I sought-
More long and great
Than me
Divine Infinitely.
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Wherever Greatness Comes From
Wherever Greatness comes from
Take it as it is –
Try to forget that sometimes there is an evil soul behind it-
Try to forget
As I cannot forget
As I do not forget
As I will not forget
Oh Beauty is Great
And the Sublime a Wonder of this world
But Evil hurts too much
And Cruelty Unforgivable-
You take the Evil geniuses and worship them
I will never worship anyone or anything but G-d.
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