Ein Yahav



A night drive to Ein Yahav in the Arava Desert,
a drive in the rain. Yes, in the rain.
There I met people who grow date palms,
there I saw tamarisk trees and risk trees,
there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire.
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme ABCDEFGH
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 319
Words 67
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

Yehuda Amichai

 · 1924 · Würzburg
 · 2000 · Jerusalem

Yehuda Amichai (‎3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet. more…

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