Poem
Mordechai Geldman
SIMILES
You give of yourself only partiallyrefusing to give me your body
yet my body doesn’t give up, it persists
Am I not like Ahab
chasing across the vast ocean
after a white whale
a primordial creature of the depths
whose formidable motion
may yet break my boat
sink it under the breakers
Still, I’d rather stick to the eastern mentality
to depict my state of utter sentimentality
I’ve become addicted to chasing after deer
I’m the hunter with an arrow in his heart
I’m the hunted hunter
hunted by the deer
© Translation: 2013, Tsipi Keller
דימויים
דימויים
אַתָּה נַעֲנֶה לִי חֶלְקִית
וּמְסָרֵב לָתֵת לִי אֶת גּוּפְךָ
אַךְ גּוּפִי אֵינוֹ מְוַתֵּר, אֲפִלּוּ מִתְעַקֵּשׁ
הֲרֵינִי דּוֹמֶה לְאַחְאָב
הָרוֹדֵף בְּמֶרְחֲבֵי הָאוֹקְיָנוֹס
לִוְיָתָן לָבָן
יְצוּר מַעֲמַקִּים בְּרֵאשִׁיתִי
שֶׁתְּנוּעָתוֹ הָאַדִּירָה
עֲלוּלָה לְשַׁבֵּר אֶת סְפִינָתִי
וּלְהַטְבִּיעָהּ בַּמִּשְׁבָּרִים
אַךְ מוּטָב אֹחַז דִּמּוּי אוֹרְיֶנְטָלִי
לְתֵאוּר מַצָּבִי הַסֶּנְטִימֶנְטָלִי
כָּעֵת אֶתְמַכֵּר לְצֵיד הַצְּבִי
אֲנִי צַיָּד אַךְ חֵץ בִּלְבָבִי
אֲנִי הַצַּיָּד הַנִּצּוֹד
שֶׁצָּד הַצְּבִי
© 2011, Mordechai Geldman
From: Halachti Shanim Le-Tzidcha
Publisher: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Mossad Bialik, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
From: Halachti Shanim Le-Tzidcha
Publisher: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Mossad Bialik, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
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SIMILES
You give of yourself only partiallyrefusing to give me your body
yet my body doesn’t give up, it persists
Am I not like Ahab
chasing across the vast ocean
after a white whale
a primordial creature of the depths
whose formidable motion
may yet break my boat
sink it under the breakers
Still, I’d rather stick to the eastern mentality
to depict my state of utter sentimentality
I’ve become addicted to chasing after deer
I’m the hunter with an arrow in his heart
I’m the hunted hunter
hunted by the deer
© 2013, Tsipi Keller
From: Halachti Shanim Le-Tzidcha
From: Halachti Shanim Le-Tzidcha
SIMILES
You give of yourself only partiallyrefusing to give me your body
yet my body doesn’t give up, it persists
Am I not like Ahab
chasing across the vast ocean
after a white whale
a primordial creature of the depths
whose formidable motion
may yet break my boat
sink it under the breakers
Still, I’d rather stick to the eastern mentality
to depict my state of utter sentimentality
I’ve become addicted to chasing after deer
I’m the hunter with an arrow in his heart
I’m the hunted hunter
hunted by the deer
© 2013, Tsipi Keller
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