Monday, January 13, 2003

An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion Comments

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An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion
And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy.
An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father
Both in their temporary failure.
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Yehuda Amichai
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Michael 04 July 2018

Nice poem though I feet religion being temporal here though not seemingly by the author but was there an opportunity missed here if you would take a second look, I look at the mastery had the Arab been looking for a lamb. I think the writer may have restled with this, by calling him a shepherd, not a goathurder. But maybe a lamb being on the same generational level as the Jewish mans boy left a further problem, not to me but the author

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Brian Jani 13 May 2014

Yehuda Amazing poetic skills here

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Cantrell Dicky 08 March 2006

I loved this very much and was touched buy it's ending A very good piece

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Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai

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