Naomi Replansky Quotes
1918–2023 United States
Naomi Replansky (May 23, 1918 – January 7, 2023) was a Jewish poet who lived in the USA.
- United States
- 20th-century poets
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My words may turn into stones/as easily as a man/turned one day into silence.
Hungry, not one word here/is as good as bread.
All, all runs wild, all wild and uncontrolled./A toad hops from my mouth instead of gold.
The hunters hang onto their man/And merrily pass by/Where I scot-free and you scot-free/Stand in the shadow of Why.
I learned the speech of birds; now every tree/Screams out to me a baleful prophecy.
they swarmed everywhere,/the unwritten poems.
I was, I did, but I will let it be./Tonight I must hold dear/Whatever brought me here.
Neither destroyed nor diamond/I walk from the core of your flame,/The rain does not hiss when it hits me,/And I answer to my old name.
When there was one kiss/against ten curses/and one loaf/against ten hungry/and one hello/against ten goodbyes/the odds stalked/your crooked steps.
Born of a war, I was always aching and straining/To nuzzle myself into peace./Peace when it came was hunted and haunted, and stayed/Just for a moment.
His praise like rain runs down the gutters
They went hunting lions/But a flea attacked them/And their hunters' passion/Narrowed to a flea.
In silence is the smell of treachery, and sanction/Of hunger, and therefore I shout./But in the storm of sound I clothe myself/In a hush like fur.
I must learn again to give it welcome.
Excuse me for living,/But, since I am living,/Given inches, I take yards,/Taking yards, dream of miles/And a landscape, unbounded/And vast in abandon./And you dreaming the same.