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Wishing everyone a peaceful Christmas and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to share this poem, recently posted on W<\/a>riteOutLoud<\/a>, by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, which was published in his 1971 collection\u00a0Not for the Sake of Remembering<\/em>, a few years after the 1967 Six-Day War, fought between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In 1994, Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel peace prize with Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority, and Israel\u2019s foreign minister Shimon Peres. Amichai was invited to participate in the prizegiving ceremony, where he read this poem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WILDPEACE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not the peace of a cease-fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but rather<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as in the heart when the excitement is over<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and you can talk only about a great weariness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know that I know how to kill, that makes me an adult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And my son plays with a toy gun that knows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

how to open and close its eyes and say Mama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A peace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

without the big noise of beating swords into ploughshares,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

without words, without<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the thud of the heavy rubber stamp: let it be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

light, floating, like lazy white foam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little rest for the wounds – who speaks of healing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And the howl of the orphans is passed from one generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to the next, as in a relay race:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the baton never falls.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let it come<\/p>\n\n\n\n

like wildflowers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

suddenly, because the field<\/p>\n\n\n\n

must have it: wildpeace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yehuda Amichai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Chana Bloch<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wishing everyone a peaceful Christmas and 2024. I want to share this poem, recently posted on WriteOutLoud, by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, which was published in his 1971 collection\u00a0Not for the Sake of Remembering, a few years after the 1967 Six-Day War, fought between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In 1994, Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Yitzhak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,18,99],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-peace","tag-poem","tag-yehuda-amichai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}