Posted in A Poet's Education, Observations, The Reading Journals, tagged Bernard of Clairvaux, honey, Music, song, the name of Jesus on November 28, 2017| 1 Comment »
Jesus mel in ore,
in aure melos,
in corde jubilus:
Jesus to me is
honey in the mouth,
music in the ear,
a song in the heart.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Translation from Bernard of Clairvaux, The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux: 2: On the Song of Songs I, trans. Kilian Walsh, intro. Corneille Halflants, Cistercian Fathers Series: Number 4 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971), 105-13.
Posted in The Daily Poems, tagged "Inside the Apple", apple, honey, knife, Yehuda Amichai on December 4, 2008| 1 Comment »
You visit me inside the apple.
Together we can hear the knife
paring around and around us, carefully,
so the peel won’t tear.
You speak to me. I trust your voice
because it has lumps of hard pain in it
the way real honey
has lumps of wax from the honeycomb.
I touch your lips with my fingers:
that too is a prophetic gesture.
And your lips are red, the way a burnt field
is black.
It’s all true.
You visit me inside the apple
and you’ll stay with me inside the apple
until the knife finishes its work.
Yehuda Amichai
trans. by Chana Bloch
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (1996)
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