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Yehuda Amichai's Poetry, by first line

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  • Seven Laments For The War-Dead
    Mr. Beringer, whose son
    fell at the Canal that strangers dug
    152 lines
  • A Dog After Love
    After you left me
    I let a dog smell at
    8 lines, 10 comments
  • A Jewish Cemetery In Germany
    On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery,
    a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs,
    19 lines
  • A Precise Woman
    A precise woman with a short haircut brings order
    to my thoughts and my dresser drawers,
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion
    An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion
    And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy.
    14 lines
  • And We Shall Not Get Excited
    And we shall not get excited. Because a translator
    May not get excited. Calmly, we shall pass on
    18 lines
  • Do Not Accept
    Do not accept these rains that come too late.
    Better to linger. Make your pain
    15 lines
  • Ein Yahav
    A night drive to Ein Yahav in the Arava Desert,
    a drive in the rain. Yes, in the rain.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • God Full Of Mercy
    God-Full-of-Mercy, the prayer for the dead.
    If God was not full of mercy,
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • God Has Pity On Kindergarten Children
    God has pity on kindergarten children,
    He pities school children -- less.
    18 lines
  • I Have Become Very Hairy
    I have become very hairy all over my body.
    I'm afraid they'll start hunting me because of my fur.
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • I Know A Man
    I know a man
    who photographed the view he saw
    5 lines
  • I Want To Die In My Own Bed
    All night the army came up from Gilgal
    To get to the killing field, and that's all.
    21 lines
  • If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
    If I forget thee, Jerusalem,
    Then let my right be forgotten.
    25 lines
  • Jerusalem
    On a roof in the Old City
    Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
    15 lines, 3 comments
  • Love Of Jerusalem
    There is a street where they sell only red meat
    And there is a street where they sell only clothes and perfumes. And there
    13 lines
  • Memorial Day For The War Dead
    Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
    the grief of all your losses to their grief,
    33 lines
  • My Child Wafts Peace
    My child wafts peace.
    When I lean over him,
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Of Three Or Four In The Room
    Out of three or four in the room
    One is always standing at the window.
    14 lines
  • Temporary Poem Of My Time
    Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,
    Latin writing, from west to east.
    60 lines, 1 comment
  • The First Rain
    The first rain reminds me
    Of the rising summer dust.
    12 lines
  • Tourists
    Visits of condolence is all we get from them.
    They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Wildpeace
    Not the peace of a cease-fire
    not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb,
    22 lines
  • Yad Mordechai
    Yad Mordechai. Those who fell here
    still look out the windows like sick children
    12 lines
  • On Rabbi Kook's Street
    On Rabbi Kook's Street
    I walk without this good man--
    24 lines
  • Try To Remember Some Details
    Try to remember some details. Remember the clothing
    of the one you love
    27 lines
  • Near The Wall Of A House
    Near the wall of a house painted
    to look like stone,
    13 lines
  • You Mustn't Show Weakness
    You mustn't show weakness
    and you've got to have a tan.
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • My Father
    The memory of my father is wrapped up in
    white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work.
    6 lines
  • Forgetting Someone
    Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light
    in the backyard so it stays lit all the next day
    4 lines, 3 comments
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