Yehuda Amichai's Poetry, by title

• 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 Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life

  A man doesn't have time in his life
  to have time for everything.

  32 lines, 5 comments
• A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention

  They amputated
  Your thighs off my hips.

  16 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Before

  Before the gate has been closed,
  before the last quetion is posed,

  13 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Half The People In The World

  Half the people in the world love the other half,
  half the people hate the other half.

  30 lines, 2 comments
• I Don't Know If History Repeats Itself

  I don't Know if history repeats itself
  But I do know that you don't.

  17 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
• Let The Memorial Hill Remember

  Let the memorial hill remember instead of me,
  that's what it's here for. Let the par in-memory-of remember,

  11 lines
• 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
• My Father

  The memory of my father is wrapped up in
  white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work.

  6 lines
• Near The Wall Of A House

  Near the wall of a house painted
  to look like stone,

  13 lines
• Of Three Or Four In The Room

  Out of three or four in the room
  One is always standing at the window.

  14 lines
• On Rabbi Kook's Street

  On Rabbi Kook's Street
  I walk without this good man--

  24 lines
• Once A Great Love

  Once a great love cut my life in two.
  The first part goes on twisting

  12 lines
• Pity, We Were A Good Invention

  They amputated
  Your thighs from my waist.

  12 lines

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