Beautiful, beautiful poetry (for someone like myself who struggles to really appreciate it). I just loved it. I loved the courage to not hide your convictions. I loved not caring to adhere to rhythm and rhyme per line, but to use the shape to help express what you feel. I loved the candid realism and the obstinate hope. And I loved the intertwining with one of the most moving and comforting prayers I know. It comes second to the Cohen's prayer which we also say to bless our children on Shabbat.
This poem is a perfect expression of our lives these days. Kudos Dara Barnat!
Stunning work. Thank you once again for sharing work that puts words to the unspeakable inside us.
Beautiful, beautiful poetry (for someone like myself who struggles to really appreciate it). I just loved it. I loved the courage to not hide your convictions. I loved not caring to adhere to rhythm and rhyme per line, but to use the shape to help express what you feel. I loved the candid realism and the obstinate hope. And I loved the intertwining with one of the most moving and comforting prayers I know. It comes second to the Cohen's prayer which we also say to bless our children on Shabbat.
Thank you.
Thank you. I finally had the chance to read this today, while Netanyahu visits the president. I was helpful for me to have your words.
It was helpful!
How is it possible that poems can have neither rhyme nor meter and still be called poems? I find this situation to be very misleading.
MY PET ABOMINATION
If there is one thing, to which I am sadly adverse
Its the poems which mostly consist of blank verse.
Words without rhyme, all of the time
Are not really poems at all.
Their authors can't claim
That their words are the same
As the poets who do have the call.
They should write something fitting
That sounds less like gritting
Ones teeth over unbalanced terms,
And provide a word harmony