Retrospective Challenge - February!

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The second poet we're revisiting this year is Yehuda Amichai!

If you want a new prompt from him, comment on this post any time in February, and I'll give you a new one.

If you'd rather take a stab at an old prompt, you can take a look at the original sign up post, or the July Challenge prompts from that year.

I hope everyone is having as much fun as I am!

Comments

[bardsley]

Thank you! Would you mind sending me the whole poem? I like to have the full context.

[pf_mod]

Sure thing!

Quick And Bitter by Yehuda Amichai

The end was quick and bitter.
Slow and sweet was the time between us,
slow and sweet were the nights
when my hands did not touch one another in despair but in the love
of your body which came
between them.

And when I entered into you
it seemed then that great happiness
could be measured with precision
of sharp pain. Quick and bitter.

Slow and sweet were the nights.
Now is bitter and grinding as sand—
"Let's be sensible" and similiar curses.

And as we stray further from love
we multiply the words,
words and sentences so long and orderly.
Had we remained together
we could have become a silence.

[bardsley]

Thank you very much. I like the poem. I might never have seen if not for you. <3